Stories from Wednesday, August 10, 2011

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Bloomfield Public Transit recently received national-level recognition at a Missouri Public Transit Association (MPTA) banquet. The Federal Transit Administration's acknowledgement of several Missouri transit providers in both the rural and urban areas of the state. The City of Bloomfield was recognized for posting a 12.71 percent increase in ridership for 2010. In that year the city had a total of 3,187 trips in the transit bus...

New York City may never be the same. Members of Dexter's Show Choir, under the direction of MaryRuth Boone, visited the Big Apple this summer, where they performed their musical and dance numbers to crowd on The Intrepid and at Ellis Island. The group, some 32 strong, were accompanied by 22 parent chaperones on their flight and subsequent four-day stay in the city as they toured, tasted, and toasted (sodas only!) America's largest populated city of over eight million residents...

A.L. Blair, son of the late John Turner Blair and Myrtle Mae Lynch Blair, was born on April 5, 1938 in Henderson, Tenn., and died at the Missouri Southern Health Care in Dexter on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 at the age of 73. Mr. Blair was of the Baptist faith, member of the National Rifle Association, veteran of the United States Army, a self-employed farmer for many years, and a resident of Essex, Mo...