Stories from Wednesday, July 9, 2014

MALDEN, Mo. - The success continued for the Dexter Bearcats varsity boys basketball program earlier this week. The Bearcats finished the two-day Malden Shootout with a record of 5-1 Tuesday. Dexter beat Advance 56-38 in Game 1, lost to New Madrid County Central 68-27 in Game 2, edged Delta C-7 49-47 in Game 3, beat Risco 57-18 in Game 4, beat Holcomb 53-19 in Game 5 and beat Malden 40-36 in Game 6...

Dexter Police July 8, 2014 * Police are investigating a report of stealing from the 300 block of S. Elm Street.

A $50,000 paving project with the city of Dexter is set to begin in the near future. The first of several projects will involve the paving of Vine Street from Walnut Street east to Kitchen Street, according to Jeff Myers, head of the city's Street Department. Myers elaborated on the paving project during Monday night's monthly meeting of the Dexter Board of Aldermen...

BERNIE, Mo. -- The Bernie Board of Aldermen awarded the contract for repaving some streets in the city to Delta Apex Paving of Cape Girardeau, Mo., at their regular meeting Monday night. The city received two sealed bids for the repaving, and Delta was the low bidder with a bid of $81 per ton of asphalt. Delta estimated the total cost of the project at $77,760...

Periodically, The Daily Statesman publishes a photo of a tree, a flower, or other wildlife that is not easily recognizable and not as familiar as many native growths. Although found across the U.S., the above specimen is native to China, Korea and Japan. ...

For those of us that work a regular five-day a week job, a three-day holiday weekend is a magical thing. It's hard to wrap your head around what it must have been like for a bunch of brave, adventurous Europeans, building a new life in a strange land while being oppressed by taxation from across the Atlantic, to rise up and fight. ...