Business

Query Corner (05/02/08)
Editor's note: This is the initial response to the Daily Statesman's "Query Corner." The panel selected the following three questions to address this week: Bill Hampton has confirmed that YHC (Your Hometown Channel) will be housed in the old Metro building in downtown Dexter and plans are for them to be fully operational by September 1, 2008. YHC is perhaps better known as Channel 21 and Hampton says they will occupy about 60 percent of the upper floor of the Metro...

John W. Ringer honored for 44 years on hospital board (04/29/08)
Forty-four years go by quickly when you're doing something about which you are passionate and John William Ringer is passionate about the local hospital and the foundation that currently supports the facility. Since the hospital's inception in 1968, Ringer has served on the hospital board and more recently on the board of the Regional Healthcare Foundation, which serves as the governing organization for Dexter's hospital. ...

Dexter project included in DRA recommendation (04/23/08)
Dexter City Administrator Mark Stidham has received word that a $100,000 grant has been approved for the city of Dexter for the purpose of making improvements to the industrial park that houses Emcon Technologies (formerly Arvin Industries). The funds come from the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) and is a portion of over $737,000 in applications received by the DRA for various economic growth projects in the Bootheel...

Richland board accepts DESE award (03/28/08)
Members of Richland's School Board met in regular session Thursday night, having recently accepted the award for Distinction in Performance from the Department of Secondary and Elementary Education earlier this month. Members approved the calendar for the 2008-09 school year, along with dates for the upcoming summer school session and learned of numerous student achievements...

Trial postponed for Poplar Bluff attorney accused of selling prescription medications (03/23/08)
BLOOMFIELD -- A Poplar Buff attorney arrested for selling prescription drugs in Stoddard County has had his trial postponed again, according to court personnel. Richard J. Bascom, 42, was set to stand trial March 27-28, before Presiding Circuit Judge Joe Z. Satterfield. However, according to Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Briney Welborn that date has been postponed...

Widespread flooding covers Stoddard County (03/19/08)
Widespread flooding throughout Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois is taking its toll on Stoddard County and other neighboring counties as approximately 10 inches of rain fell across the region yesterday and last night. Two deaths have been reported so far, one in Bollinger County and one in Wayne County near Ellsinore...