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Nguyen, Dicken are Youth of the Year winners
(Local News ~ 04/19/24)
Aiden Nguyen is the Youth of the Year for the Boys & Girls Club of the Heartland, club officials announced recently, and he was selected from among 80 outstanding youth and also competed in a statewide contest. “Aiden is what a Youth of the Year winner is all about,” said club Executive Director Chris Rushin. ...
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Boyers appointed to FCC’s Communications Equity and Diversity Council
(Local News ~ 04/19/24)
A Poplar Bluff businesswoman was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission Communications Equity and Diversity Council as a working group member. Patricia Jo Boyers is president/CEO and co-founder of BOYCOM Vision and chair of ACA Connects,...
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PB R-I approves salary increases and bids
(Local News ~ 04/19/24)
The Poplar Bluff R-I School Board approved a $500 increase to the salary base, plus the addition of a step to bring the district’s base salary to $39,000 for Fiscal Year 2025 at its April meeting. This salary increase will include a comparable percentage increase for the other district salary schedules...
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Total Eclipse photo contest winners announced
(Local News ~ 04/19/24)
The winners of the Total Eclipse photo contest are: First place — Jeremy and Lindsay Allbritton Second place — Jenna Benton Third place — Cole and Lindsay Griffith This contest was sponsored by First Midwest Bank and the Daily American Republic. This photos and more of the images shared with us from Eclipse weekend will appear Wednesday, April 24, in a special commemorative special section of the DAR along with photographs and content from our staff members...
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Eclipse event helped 4-H get closer to fund-raising goal
(Local News ~ 04/19/24)
As thousands of people from all over the nation — as well as multiple countries — traveled to Poplar Bluff to see the eclipse, many of them helped bring the local 4-H closer to their fundraising goal. “I honestly couldn’t have been happier with how everything went,” said 4-H Club Leader Briana Feverston. “I mean, we did come up short on our goal, but all things considered it was amazing.”...
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Taste of the Town tickets selling out fast
(Local News ~ 04/19/24)
A limited number of ticket are available for the 17th Annual Taste of the Town from 6-9 p.m. Thursday at the Black Riverk Coliseum. “We are incredibly fortunate to have Taste of the Town as an annual event everyone eagerly anticipates, “ said Terri McCormick, Director of Development and Finance Boys & Girls Club of the Heartland...
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Shirley Schweitzer
(Obituary ~ 04/19/24)
Shirley Ann Schweitzer joined the angels Sunday, April 7, at the age of 86. She was born on June 8, 1937, in Ransom, Kansas. After marrying the love of her life, Darrel Schweitzer, she lived in many places in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, then settled in southeast Missouri at Lake Wappapello. They called this home for 39 years and fell in love with the lake life of boating, fishing, (or reading for Shirley), enjoying sunsets, and entertainment...
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Jesse Kirk
(Obituary ~ 04/19/24)
Jesse Burnette Kirk was born Feb. 29, 1936, and passed from this earth April 17, 2024, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was the first child of Jesse F. and Lillian Kirk. He graduated from Fisk-Rombauer High School in 1954. He attended Southeast Missouri State College in 1954-55 and then worked at McDonnell Douglas before beginning his career as a breadman in 1959. ...
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Diana Dye
(Obituary ~ 04/19/24)
Diana LaJune Dye, 76, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Thursday, April 18, 2024, at Oakdale Care Center. Diana was born June 10, 1947, to John and Katherine (Moore) Stovall in Poplar Bluff. She married Buford “Ray” Dye in 1969, also in Poplar Bluff...
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Xi Kappa sorority announces end of Mother’s Day flower sale for UCAN
(Local News ~ 04/19/24)
They say all good things must come to an end, and this was surely a good thing. For the last 14 years Xi Kappa Sorority has held its Annual Flower Sale to benefit UCAN the Saturday before Mother’s Day at Poplar Bluff Realty. Each year locally grown baskets of petunias, impatiens, purslanes and more were sold with all proceeds going to UCAN...
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Police reports, April 19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/19/24)
April Ealer reported the theft of a cell phone at 6:56 a.m. Saturday, April 18. The phone was later recovered. _ A harassment report was taken on Thomas Street at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, April 18. The case has been referred to the Butler County prosecutor’s office...
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