Stories from Saturday, January 16, 2021

(EDITOR’S NOTE: At the request of local Emergency Management Agency officials, Mr. Stanard was asked to write the following as a senior citizen waiting for the COVID-19 vaccine who also is a Poplar Bluff native and life-long community supporter.)...

“Widespread inoculation with this effective vaccine is our best hope for faster control and eventual elimination of the greatest health threat we’ve seen in more than 100 years.” Those words were written by former Daily American Republic newspaperman John Stanard and they sum up how we feel about an event Jan. 22 to vaccinate nearly 2,000 people against COVID-19...

To the Editor, Missouri has no statewide mask mandate at the time I am writing this. Arkansas does. I have a suggestion to those who are courteous and smart enough to always wear a mask in public: go to Arkansas to do all your shopping. This is assuming merchants are enforcing Piggott and Corning, (which) are just about a half hour’s drive...

Poplar Bluff Boys & Girls Club students took a few moments recently to weigh in on the state of the nation, ahead of next week’s presidential inauguration.

Poplar Bluff firefighters were dispatched at 1:15 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, to 1042 Nooney St. to a structure fire. According to the report, when firefighters arrived heavy smoke was coming from the second story of the home. All occupants were out of the house...

Patrol Benjamin J. Baggett, 30, of Qulin was arrested at 2:30 a.m. Satuday, Jan. 16, on suspicion of driving white intoxicated (alcohol), no seat belt, failure to drive on right half of the roadway and an improper turn. He was booked into the Dunklin County jail...