Stories from Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Varsity Cheerleaders at Dexter High School will conduct a camp for students entering into Kindergarten through 6th grade. The camp will be held in the DHS Gym on June 18-22 from 1-3 p.m. daily. Cost of the camp is $25 and a t-shirt will be provided...

Route 25 in Stoddard County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance. This section of roadway is the bridge over US 60. Weather permitting, work will begin Monday, May 21 and Tuesday, May 22 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily...

Murrell L. Duffie, son of the late John Loren and Madeline Duffie, was born in Dexter, Mo., Nov. 26, 1924, and died on May 12, 2012, at the V.A. Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo., at the age of 87. Mr. Duffie entered the service during World War II and was a U.S. Navy Corps-man serving with the U. S. Marines. He was wounded at Iwo Jima and received the Purple Heart...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - For a second straight season the Kennett Indians entered the final inning of the Class 3, District 1, baseball championship trailing by two runs. "We needed to relax and just play baseball the final inning," Kennett coach Aaron New said. "We were in the same spot last year. I told the guys before they batted 'you are not going to win this game if you don't believe you are going to win it.'"...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - A Stoddard County man charged in connection with a March rape is asking to have his case moved to a new county. Steven Clark Rendleman, 51, filed a motion Monday requesting a change of venue and change of judge. He reportedly requested a move to Franklin County through an agreement with Prosecuting Attorney Russell Oliver...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- At the Monday night meeting of the Bloomfield Board of Aldermen, the board learned more about what is happening with the old Methodist church on Court St. Larry Green with Stillwater Ministries attended the Monday meeting to elaborate on what his group is doing with the property...

BLOOMFIELD - Prosecutors have applied for a second-degree murder charge and an arrest warrant for a Marble Hill man who was driving a vehicle involved in a fatal crash earlier this month. Prosecutors filed the warrant Thursday for Donald R. Smith, 35, according to online court records, a week after a fatal May 3 crash in Stoddard County...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The City of Bloomfield is reporting today that the Bloomfield Post Office is open for business folowing its closure in April due to the finding of asbestos. The information came in an email from the City of Bloomfield Thursday morning...

A Dexter Street Department crew was busy Wednesday afternoon digging up a storm drain on the west side of Walnut Street near its intersection with Stoddard Street. The city is in the middle of an approximate $200,000 project to replace and make repairs to the storm drainage system in the downtown area. ...

Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland's Resource Development Manager Renee Trout was the keynote speaker at Wednesday's Full Membership Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held at Cox Corner. Trout presented a history of Girl Scouts as they celebrate their century mark this year...

William Andrew Bridgeman, son of the late Andrew Bridgeman and Anna Bridgeman, was born April 6, 1925, in Glennon, Mo., and died Monday, May 14, 2012, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Mo. He had lived in Essex the past six years and had formerly lived in Germany, Arizona, and Virginia. He retired from the US Army...