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Out and About
(Local News ~ 07/29/14)
Arickson Jones enjoyed Monday afternoon playing with family and friends at Dexter West Park.
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McCaskill urges new VA clinics, including in Cape
(Local News ~ 07/29/14)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and others sent a letter last week to the Senate and House Veterans Affairs Committees, urging them to approve a provision to build 26 VA clinics, including one in Cape Girardeau. The national legislation was proposed in June after allegations of long wait times and secret waiting lists at Veterans Affairs hospitals. ...
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Local cancer patient makes history
(Local News ~ 07/29/14)
Mary Barnett is known for many things -- her giving nature, her positive attitude, her Christian spirit -- and recently she added one more item to her claims to fame. Barnett is the first cancer patient to complete her chemotherapy at Dexter's SoutheastHEALTH Center of Stoddard County...
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District rep races head toward primary election
(Local News ~ 07/29/14)
Missouri House District 151 voters will vote two times on the seat in the Aug. 5 primary election. Ryan William Holder and Tila Rowland Hubrecht are vying to fill the vacant seat, but they're also candidates in the primary for the new term representative...
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Dollar Tree steps up fight, buys Family Dollar
(Community News ~ 07/29/14)
NEW YORK (AP) _ The fight for penny pinchers is intensifying. Dollar Tree said Monday it is buying rival discounter Family Dollar for $8.5 billion, significantly broadening its reach as it looks to fend off Wal-Mart, which has been stepping up its courtship of lower-income customers...
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Commission to take bids for removing trees from property
(Local News ~ 07/29/14)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission voted to send out a letter to professional tree cutting services in the county seeking bids to cut trees that are posing safety issues on county property. Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis said a large limb from a tree near the Justice Center fell during "substantial winds" that accompanied a thunderstorm in the county last week. The limb hit a building owned by Jim Tweedy of Bloomfield...
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Election issues loom for school funding
(Local News ~ 07/29/14)
As voters ready to go to the ballot box on Tuesday, August, 5, there are some issues that at least one person believes they should take into serious consideration. According to Jim Kreider, Executive Director of the Missouri Retired Teachers Association, at least one ballot issue could potentially be detrimental to Missouri public schools. Kreider spoke to a room full of retired teachers from Stoddard County at the Hickory Log on Monday...
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Junior golfers conclude summer series at Fox Haven
(Outdoors ~ 07/29/14)
SIKESTON, Mo. - Nick Woolard said he never played golf on such a nice day. Unusually low July temperatures and a cool breeze gave Woolard the impression the weather would translate into a successful day on the course, and it did -- just not in the way he envisioned...
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Harry H. Swinger
(Obituary ~ 07/29/14)
Harry H. Swinger, born July 30, 1921, to Hershel and Gladys Snider Swinger, and died July 27, 2014, at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Poplar Bluff. Harry joined the US Army Air Corps in 1942 determined to be a pilot. He went through training throughout the US and became a gunner on the B-17. ...
- Patton - Patton Junction Livestock Auction: Feeder Cattle and Cow auction for 07/28/2014 (Agriculture Report ~ 07/29/14)
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