Stories from Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Class 3, District 1 football crown is up for grabs tonight as the Dexter Bearcats host the Fredericktown Blackcats at Charles Bland Stadium. The game will mark the second straight season the two schools have faced off for the district title on a Thursday. Dexter won last season showdown, 30-22...

The Southeast Missouri Pellet Plant Project in Dexter has been awarded grant funding to assist them in conducting a feasibility study to assess a farmer-owned biomass pellet plant. The grant funding totals $68,000. "Value-added grants give Missouri producers the tools needed to expand their businesses," said Director of Agriculture Dr. ...

Hand-in-hand, a circle of friendly young ghostly goblins can be found dancing around the front yard tree of Steve and Jean Rahm at 222 S. Walnut St. in Dexter. Children in Dexter will be trick-or-treating Halloween night, Oct. 31, from 6 until 10 p.m. Dexter High School's Trunk or Treat (see below) will also take place on Monday evening...

A Dexter man sustained moderate injuries Wednesday afternoon in a wreck just east of the Stoddard County line in New Madrid County. According to the Highway Patrol, Thomas G. Holston, 61, was eastbound on Highway US 60 at Morehouse when a southbound vehicle driv-en by James L. Holt, 61, of Bell City, failed to yield as he attempted to cross Hwy. 60...

Dexter High School's Student Council-sponsored Annual Trunk or Treat will take place on Halloween evening, Monday, Oct. 31 on the high school parking lot. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. and last until 7 p.m. Each year Student Council members dress up for their young guests and distribute treats from the back of their vehicles parked in front of the high school. ...

Charles William Corlew, son of the late William Chester "Bill" and Versie Helen Kimbrell Corlew, was born in Essex, Mo. on Aug. 28, 1934, and died suddenly on Oct. 25, 2011, at the age of 77. He had lived in Essex, Mo. his entire life and was a member of the Olive Branch General Baptist Church in Essex, where he had served as a deacon for many years...

Fowler "Bob" Evans, son of the late Clabe Evans and Bessie Fowler Evans, was born on Oct. 1, 1920 in Randolph County, Ark., and died at his residence in Dexter, Mo. on Oct. 26, 2011 at the age of 91. Mr. Evans was affiliated with the Dexter Church of Christ and was a resident of Dexter, Mo...

Della Vipperman, daughter of the late Isaac Samuel and Sylvia Silkwood Keck, was born in Wayne County, Mo. on Sept. 21, 1910, and died at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter, Mo. on Oct. 25, 2011, at the age of 101. She had lived in Michigan before moving to Dexter, Mo. in 1977...

Mildred Ladd, 95, of Advance, Mo. was born June 11, 1916 in Bollinger County, Mo., the daughter of Ed and Sadie Shell Hendrix, and died on Oct. 26, 2011. Mildred had been a homemaker. She assisted her husband in ministering for 39 years. She was a member of Ladd's Chapel...

Charles J. Smith, was born on Aug. 17, 1916 and died on Oct. 26, 2011 at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter, Mo. at the age of 95. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Rainey-Mathis Fu-neral Home in Dexter, Mo.