Stories from Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Stoddard County Public Health Center (SCPHC) will be offering two new types of flu vaccinations this year. The center will continue to offer the vaccine that has been offered in previous years. In addition, this year they will begin giving the Fluzone High Dose flu shot for people 65 years of age and older and the Fluzone Intradermal flu shot for ages 19-64...

A Wappapello teen is out on bond after he was arrested for attempting to strike a Stoddard County Sheriff's Deputy on Saturday, the final night of the Stoddard County Fair. Zachary Hunter Vonruden, 17, of Wappapello, Mo., was jailed and charged with the Class A misdemeanor of assault of a law enforcement officer in the third degree and the Class A misdemeanor of resisting arrest...

Michelle Lane took over as Assistant Coordinator of the Three Rivers College Dexter campus last week. She replaces Ann Matthews who is taking a position with the Three Rivers campus in Kennett. Lane is a native of Stoddard County and a graduate of Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- In this modern, civilized age, motorists driving along Highway 25 past the First Commercial Bank of Bloomfield would never guess that the location holds a deadly secret. According to an article in the Cape Girardeau Missouri Democrat of July 3, 1862, three "Union men" were hanged at the location on a tree called the "Fatal Tree."...

For the second straight night the Dexter Lady Bearcats have found themselves on the wrong end of a three-game match. After dropping a tight three-game match at Advance Monday night, Dexter was dealt a similar fate by Leopold, 25-20, 21-25, 25-21, Tuesday night at the Bearcat Event Center...

Shirley Myers Lee, daughter of the late Gay Maurice Myers and Lois Norman Myers, was born in Essex on Sept. 8, 1935, and died at her home in Bernie on Sept. 24, 2012, at the age of 77. Mrs. Lee was a retired school teacher, having worked many years in the Bernie Elementary School system teaching third grade...