Stories from Wednesday, December 6, 2023

LILBOURN, Mo. — Retired Air Force Col. James Russell, chairman of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1783’s School and Youth Committee, welcomed teachers, students and their families to the Post’s 2023 Fall Awards Banquet with a quote from former President Harry Truman...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — On the Memory Tree this week Ann Evans Copeland has put lights up  for Jim Wayne Farrenburg, Mildred and Wade Evans Copeland, Thomas and Virginia Gallivan, Lauradele Riley, Nancy Ann Allgier and Robert Bird, George Bock, Lynn Bock, Virginia Carlson and Andy Smith...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — On the morning of Dec. 2, an officer responded to a residence in the 400 block of Pinnell Lane for a disturbance. When he got to the house he found that two men who live at the house had been in an argument, and one of them had damaged the inside of the house during the fight...

Thirty-five businesses, schools and other groups took part in the New Madrid County Technical and Skills Center’s Career Fair on Dec. 1. Although primarily designed to give high school seniors the chance to learn more about the opportunities available following graduation, all of the NMCC and TSC students took part in the day-long event...

This is in reply to the Nov. 18 (Speakout) lady complaining about the free food given at the Sikeston Public Schools. If your children don’t like the food, then you could get off your butt and make them breakfast at home and also pack a lunch for them. My mother worked full time and made our breakfast and packed our lunch daily. My schools did not provide free lunches, and it was a treat to occasionally eat warm prepared school food. I don’t really believe that the school served your children molded food. If your daughter is in high school and doesn’t like the food, she is old enough to make and pack her own lunch.

Dear Editor: Once again, we executed the Community Thanksgiving Dinner with no walk rounds, no phone calls, due to safety issues. We served 875 meals out the door and into each vehicle with a minimum of contact, thus protecting the volunteers and the recipients from the recent outbreak of new strains of viruses. As always, we got the job done. That 875 does not include the buckets of food we sent out because we ran out of to go boxes. Over 300 of the meals were sent to outlying areas...

SIKESTON — William Eugene Graham Sr., 68, died Nov. 30, 2023, at his home in rural Sikeston. A memorial service will be held at a later date. McMikle Funeral Home of Sikeston is in charge of arrangements.