Stories from Tuesday, January 9, 2024

SIKESTON — Local school board races for the upcoming April election have been established. Filing for school board candidacy for the April 2 election was Dec. 5-26. Because some school districts had the same number of candidates as positions, an election will not be needed. However, in districts where there were more candidates than spots available, voters will decide those races in the upcoming election...

If you have any ambitions to go walking in a winter wonderland, you might want to grab a raincoat and a scarf. According to the National Weather Service, the immediate forecast is wet and windy, and will soon be turning very cold. The difficulties will likely arise by the end of the week on Friday, Jan. ...

SIKESTON — Linda Reeder Rassinier, age 74, passed away on Dec. 20, 2023, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston. She was born on Dec. 29, 1948, in Sikeston, to the late Reece and Margene Phillips Reeder. She is survived by two daughters, Ellen (Stephen) Hardin and Katherine (John) LaRavia; one brother, Reece Reeder; six grandchildren, Reese Hardin, Guy Hardin, Brian Hardin, Ashley Hardin, Zoe LaRavia and Alex LaRavia; one great-grandchild, Peyton Hardin as well as an Aunt and Uncle, Beverly and Wade Parker.. ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Stephen Sayles Williams, affectionately known as Steve, 79, resident of Charleston, was taken from our midst suddenly on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. The son of the late Charles and Dorothy Lewis Williams, he made his grand entrance into this world on June 27, 1944 in Marshall, Missouri...