Stories from Sunday, November 11, 2012

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Continuing their mission of "Caring and Sharing," Dexter Elks Lodge No. 2439 is participating in a unique national service project to benefit area veterans. It's called the Veterans Leather Program, and is the service project of the Elks National Veterans Service Commission. There couldn't be a more appropriate time for area residents to take advantage of the opportunity to be a part of a program that supplies needed items to hospitalized veterans...

By PAUL DAVIS SEMO News Service In Stoddard County, hunters took home 165 deer, a jump of 26 from a year ago, while Dunklin County hunters bagged 45, a small increase of five from last year. With the first half of Missouri's youth deer season under their belts, the state's youngest hunters already have shattered their special season's harvest record...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Dexter Police were dispatched to 224 Carter St. just before 1 a.m. Thursday by a caller who said he had been assaulted by a male subject he initially believed to be a police officer. Nicholas Griffin, 31, phoned police at 12:51 a.m. ...

Editor's Note: Local Elks Lodge Veterans Committee Chairperson Shirley Alexander recently recorded a conversation with Dexter native and World War II Veteran Harry Swinger. What follows is an account of Harry Swinger's survival against all odds as a POW in Germany in 1944-45. Also contributing information for this article was Gary Swinger, son of Harry Swinger...

SUBMITTED photo Bacon-Fowler exchange wedding vows Thomas Wayne Bacon of Bloomfield, Mo., and Juanita Arlene Glass of Dexter, Mo., are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Samantha Michelle Bacon to James Alden Fowler. Samantha Michelle is the granddaughter of the late Larry Loyd Phillips and Wanda Raye Truax of Bernie, Mo., and Janice Ann Asberry of Dexter, Mo., and the late William Don Bacon...