Stories from Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Cape Girardeau City Council members voted unanimously at Monday's meeting to approve final payment to the contractor for the construction of City Hall. The construction on the new City Hall -- located at 44 N. Lorimier St. -- broke ground in June 2020 and was completed around 18 months later. The project was approved by voters in 2019 as a part of the Capital Improvement Sales Tax extension, which also included improvements to Cape Girardeau's sewer system, streets and airports...

SILVA — Two people were injured, one seriously, in a one-vehicle accident Tuesday morning on Highway 34, four miles east of Silva. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, David R. Gurney, 30, of Poplar Bluff was operating a 2008 Ford Ranger westbound at 10:50 a.m. Tuesday when it ran off the left side of the road and struck a tree...

Twin Rivers School Board members voted 4-3 Tuesday against joining a sports co-op with a Campbell school. The board had been approached about allowing students from St. Teresa’s Catholic School at Campbell to join Twin Rivers teams as part of a sports co-op...

Our MAIN EVENT this week has to be the Difference Makers banquet happening Thursday at the Black River Coliseum. This is the fourth annual event that we at the Daily American Republic have hosted. We’re excited to honor these 10 Difference Makers from our area communities and recognize the 2022 Difference Maker of the Year...

After over a century of waiting, the Poplar Bluff Police Department is getting a building exclusively it’s own. The public is invited to a rare, all-access open house from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at 911 Shelby Road. “This department has never had a building specially built for the PD. It’s always been shared, rehabbed or rebuilt,” said Chief Danny Whiteley...

POPLAR BLUFF POLICE DEPARTMENT It was discovered at 3:24 a.m. Friday, Aug. 12, tools were stolen from the construction site at 911 Shelby Road. An employee at Alternate Universe, 200 Bartlett St., reported at 10:24 a.m. Friday, Aug. 12, damage to the building and customer vehicles at the business...