Stories from Wednesday, September 27, 2023

SIKESTON — Twelve area high school students will vie for the Miss Cotton Carnival crown at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 during the 79th Annual America Legion Cotton Carnival at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo grounds. Miss Cotton Carnival is open to 10th and 11th grade Sikeston High School students and ninth through 12th grade students from area high schools...

SIKESTON — Twenty Sikeston High School seniors will vie for the Miss Sikeston crown at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 during the 79th Annual America legion Cotton Carnival at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo grounds. Anabeth Baker, 17-year-old daughter of Vest and Andrea Baker, is active as the Red Peppers secretary, Inspired Presenter, Link Crew member, NHS, Student Council, FCA and Key Club. ...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — While the 2022 Soybean Festival, which was the 75th celebration, went down in the books as one of the best, Portageville Chamber of Commerce President Clint Klipfel expects 2023 to “big” top it. This year’s theme is “Circus De La Ville: Night Under the Big Tent.”...

If you want to study what is wrong with America, you only have to look at Fox News who admitted under oath that it made more money when it lied to its listeners and told them only what they want to hear because lies are the equivalent of money. They lost three-quarters of a billion dollars in that lawsuit. They still pay $25 million a year to Tucker Carlson. They’re back lying to the most ignorant and uniformed people in our society. They’re almost back where they were before the lawsuit. But they will lose much more because there are many more lawsuits from stockholders and people damaged by their lies. It makes no difference. Truth is no longer required. Lies make millions more. Propaganda is the poison in our drinking water and it will end this great nation.

Dear Editor: Time to start planning for the Community Thanksgiving Dinner. In the past, because of the coronavirus, we made major changes to the meal. We will be following those changes again this year in order to keep our volunteers and those we serve safe from the new variations, since it’s reared its ugly head again...

SIKESTON — Ricky Joe Burgess, age 59, of Sikeston died Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, at the Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was born Oct. 3, 1963, in Sikeston, to the late Abraham Lincoln Burgess Sr. and Geneva Louelle McCormick. Ricky loved to fish, loved his family and was a great friend who would help anyone in need...