Stories from Monday, April 25, 2022

A burial of ashes for the late Chuck Haga will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 14 in the Poplar Bluff City Cemetery in Poplar Bluff with Sean Moore officiating. If raining, the ashes burial service will be postponed. A memorial will follow at 2 p.m. at the Elks Lodge #2452 located at 2452 Hwy. 67 north in Poplar Bluff...

The Poplar Bluff Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) recently donated a “freedom” quilt to the Wheatley School of Poplar Bluff and Black History Museum Board of Directors. The quilt will be raffled as a fundraiser drawing during the annual June 19, Juneteenth Celebration in Poplar Bluff. ...

GREENVILLE, Mo. — James L. Groves, 75, of Greenville, passed away Friday, April 22, 2022 at the Greenville Health Care Center in Greenville, Missouri. He was born June 22, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Virgil Groves and Alta Mae (Dickerson) Groves. ...

Gregory Mac Day, 71, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri passed away April 20, 2022, at his home in Poplar Bluff. Gregory was born Dec. 27, 1950, to Cloyde and Neva Mae (Mckinney) Day in Albany, Oregon. He married Kathy (Chapman) Dec. 27, 2001, in Corning Ark...

Joshua “Lane” Russell Savat, 16, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri passed away as the results of a tragic car accident on Saturday, April 23, 2022. Lane, son of Bree L. Savat and the late Joshua Russell Savat, was born on Jan. 11, 2006, in Poplar Bluff. He was a sophomore at Poplar Bluff High School, where he played football and ran track for the Mules. ...

After 12 years of hard work and fundraising, the Animal Welfare Alliance finally has a regional, no-kill animal shelter facility. It will be the first such shelter for Butler, Ripley, Wayne and Carter counties since the region was settled in the mid-1800s...

The Master Gardeners will have their first plant sale from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday at the Orschelin/MERS Goodwill Parking Lot, 2235 N. Westwood Blvd. They plan to make it an annual event. “All proceeds go back into our Master Gardener account and will be used to buy supplies needed for our projects like flower seeds, etc. and our dues to the Missouri Master Gardener Association,” said Master Gardener Kittye Hall...