Stories from Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Country. Community. Countless at-risk youth and adults. Michael Keller Harris Sr. of Sikeston, Missouri, has served them all for decades. That sense of service to others earned him the 2023 Southeast Missourian Spirit of America Award, which he accepted Tuesday, July 4, at Cape Girardeau’s Great American Fourth of July event at Arena Park...

SIKESTON — The annual Stop the Violence event in Sikeston will take place his weekend at Legion Park. Laurie Mitchell, whose 24-year-old son, Marcus Dixon, was murdered by gun violence on Feb.19, 2019, coordinated and arranged the event, which will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, July 8...

I remember when school taxes went to the public schools only, but in their quest to destroy the public school system, Republicans began to share the money with charter schools and other government entities. On the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today, you’ll see $600,000 was paid to the co-founders of a charter school, the Kairos Academy, of backpay for three years before the school opened. Never trust Republican legislators with your money.

NEW MADRID, Mo. - An expansion at the New Madrid County Health Department will provide even more services for the public. On June 22, a ribbon was cut to officially open the 3,000-square-foot addition to the Health Department building at 506 Highway 61 in New Madrid. ...