Stories from Friday, August 25, 2023

SIKESTON — The 2023 Sikeston Regional Chamber Annual Banquet is quickly approaching, and preparations are being made for the occasion.  The 73rd annual banquet will be Thursday, Oct. 19, and for the third consecutive year, it will be located at the Sikeston Municipal Airport, according to Taylor Deere, membership and program director for the Chamber. ...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — A Sikeston woman will spend 10 years in prison in connection with striking two people with a motor vehicle. Mercedes Faith Hankins, 22, was sentenced to 10 years in custody of the Department of Corrections on an Oct. 28, 2022, charge of first degree assault or attempt – serious physical injury or special victim. Hankins entered a guilty plea before Circuit Judge Josh Underwood in Division I of New Madrid County Circuit Court on Tuesday...

The summer between my fifth and sixth grade school years, my family moved from Boulder, Colorado, to Jackson, Missouri. Changing schools can be challenging, particularly if you are shy and introverted. On my first day of sixth grade in my new school, a classmate came up to me during recess and started talking with me. ...

Where can I see any Little League baseball pictures from 1962-1966? Thanks.

Distracted driving will be officially banned in Missouri starting Monday, Aug. 28, when the Siddens Bening Hands Free Law takes effect. Senate Bill 398 passed both houses of the state General Assembly in the last week of regular session in May but not without notable opposition, although none from Southeast Missouri...

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a ruling earlier this month that parents can be sent to jail if their children miss too much school, backing a law that parents argued was unconstitutionally vague. In a 6-0 decision released just before the start of the school year, the court ruled in favor of school districts’ authority to define regular attendance policy and to recommend parents for prosecution of the law...

Workers strip, or mill, a thin layer off the top of the existing street early Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, on Euclid Avenue in Sikeston. According to the City of Sikeston, the first phase of milling and overlay projects in Sikeston began late last month. The second phase includes going back with two layers of asphalt to the give the street a new surface. ASA Asphalt Company of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is completing the projects...

In its first meeting since the start of the school year, the Three Rivers College board unanimously voted to keep last fiscal year’s tax levy of 0.2330 cents per $100 of property valuation in place. The vote was held in a special session before the board’s regular meeting on Wednesday. ...

SIKESTON — Robert (Bob) Marshall Sr., age 66, passed away in his home on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. He was born on Feb. 14, 1957, in Sikeston Missouri, to Tom and Phyllis (Garner) Marshall. He was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sikeston, past member of the Sikeston Jaycees and the Elks Lodge in Sikeston. ...