Stories from Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The Annual Bootheel Area Multiple Sclerosis Walk will take place this Saturday, Sept. 17 at Dexter's West City Park, as hundreds are expected to come out for a day of fun and games with a common purpose aimed at eradicating the possibility of an MS diagnosis...

The Daily Statesman picked up a total of 10 awards over the recent weekend at the Missouri Press Association's Annual Convention held in Branson, the most won in a single year in the paper's recent history. The MPA annually recognizes both daily and weekly newspapers across the state for excellence in writing, photography and video news coverage...

Bernie, Bloomfield post wins

Dexter's Jessica Snider stretches to volleyball a low passing shot while teammate Shanna Gant moves in during doubles action against Poplar bluff Tuesday afternoon at the Dexter High School tennis courts. Dexter pulled out a tight 5-4 win over the visiting Lady Mules. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Stoddard County Commission approved a timetable for mold removal, remediation and restoration at the Justice Building Monday morning during their regular meeting. The commission met with Robert Carmody, project manager with Tetra Tech in Collinsville, Ill., Dale Rogers, an architect with Stearnes and Associates, Inc. and Associate Judge Joe Satterfield to discuss the timetable and the way in which the mold is to be removed and remediated...

Bake sales, ceiling insulation, Gates grants, Halloween trick-or-treating, book reports, and money issues--All these issues come under the heading "Advance Community Library Agenda." The person in charge of bringing all these issues together for discussion is library board president, Holly French, who might be described as "wise beyond her years."...

Saturday, Sept. 10, 2010 dawned cool and clear, a perfect day for the Bell City Community Days Festivities in this small Southeast Missouri town. As the parade wound its way through town, children scampered after candy, thrown from the brightly-colored floats, bands played, and old-fashioned tractors from the Painton Antique Tractor Club chugged along happily...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - Dr. Nicholas Thiele, superintendent of the Bloomfield School District, told School Board members in executive session that he was retiring effective June 30, 2012, the end of the current school year. The announcement came at the regular meeting of the board Monday night...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The North Stoddard Countian picked up a total of 9 awards over the weekend at the Missouri Press Association's Annual Convention held in Branson, the most won in a single year in the paper's recent history. The MPA annually recognizes both daily and weekly newspapers across the state for excellence in writing, photography and video news coverage...

Corey Martin, a resident of Dexter, Mo. died on Tuesday morning, Sept. 13, 2011 in Dexter at the age of 34. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced later by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

Norman Harold Cate, Jr. (Harold), 56, of Scott City, Mo. and formerly of Bloomfield, died at home on Sept. 8, 2011, after suffering from throat cancer. Harold was born at Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kan, on Sept. 24, 1954. After spending his childhood in England, California, Tennessee and Missouri, he graduated from Bloomfield High School in 1972 where he played saxophone in the marching band...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor When a local law officer was assaulted Monday night, there were several witnesses on the parking lot on Business Hwy. 60 where the incident occurred. Many of them scattered when the officer was struck by one of the individuals involved in a fight that brought police to the scene initially...