Stories from Thursday, November 14, 2013

Once again this year, Missouri deer hunters are invited to participate in the Share the Harvest program, administered by the Conservation Federation of Missouri and the Missouri Department of Conservation. With gun season for deer hunters kicking off this weekend, hunters are reminded they can help feed the needy by donating their deer, or portions of their deer, to the Share the Harvest program...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The adjutant general of Missouri, Maj. Gen. Steve Danner, has named Col. William A. Ward as assistant division commander, 35th Infantry Division, Missouri. "Col. Ward has a proven record of success, both as the commander of the 110th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade in Kansas City and as the commander of Task Force Phoenix, which provided state oversight for the cleanup efforts following the 2011 tornado in Jasper and Newton counties," Danner said. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. --Monie Brehmer really believes in the benefits of 4-H and the opportunities it offers the youth of Stoddard County. It was why she decided to leave the family farm south of Dexter to take the job as 4-H youth program assistant, a part-time job at the Missouri Extension Service office in Bloomfield. This is the first time she has taken a job outside the home...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- In recent years, the City of Bloomfield has struggled in terms of growth. The Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce for many years held a similar fate. Attendance waned and activities went by the wayside, but in the last decade the organization is steadily being revived...

PROVIDED PHOTO Pictured is the Dexter eighth grade cheerleaders. Pictured left to right (back row): Britney Hubbard, Lexie Barnes, Addie Kruse, Morgan Aldridge and Maci Daniels; pictured left to right (front row): Rhylan Hillis, Paige Moore, Michaela Gard, Karlie McKuin and Bailee Williams...

Norma Ann Gisi, daughter of the late Everett Fowler and Bertie Chasteen Fowler, was born on Oct. 28,1925, in rural Bloomfield and died on Nov. 11, 2013, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter at the age of 88. Mrs. Gisi was a member of the New Hope General Baptist Church in Essex, was co-owner and operator with her husband at Gisi Oil in Dexter, and a resident of Dexter...