Stories from Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Dexter Police April 14, 2015 At 12:48 p.m., Monday, April 13, Dexter Police arrested Ashlee Davis, 25, of Dexter, on the charge of possession of a controlled substance. At 7:25 p.m., Monday, April 13, Dexter Police arrested April Riddell, 27, of Dexter, on a warrant service...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The woes in the Justice Center building in Bloomfield continued last week when the computerized control panel stopped functioning. In a special conference call with Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis, who was out of town, the commissioners approved the manufacture of a new control panel and installation at a cost of $47,500 from Advance Systems Technology, Inc...

Preschoolers Austin Sluder and Maelyn Opfer discuss what is no doubt an important topic while attending Tuesday morning's Story Hour at Keller Public Library. Guest reader, Melanie Stoelting, who heads up Dexter Schools' Parents as Teachers program, entertained youngsters with one of the several "Froggy" series tales. Additional photos may be found in Photo Galleries at www.dailystatesman.com or by scanning the QR code herein with any smart phone...

Dexter High School Principal Dan Pollock has announced that a mock accident will be staged Thursday, April 16, at 1 p.m. behind Dexter High School on Brown Pilot Lane for the purpose of stressing safe driving practices to both middle school and high school students...

BERNIE, Mo. -- In a non-typical split vote, the Bernie Board of Education elected to grant a salary step to their certified staff, but to hold off on granting a proposed one-percent raise on their base pay scale, which was the recommendation of Supt. Doug Ruck at Monday night's monthly board meeting...

DEXTER, Mo. - The BA Sports All-Star Extravaganza was held Saturday at the Bearcat Event Center in Dexter. Woodland's Garret Reynolds won the boys 3-point contest, Jackson's Rachel Crites won the girls 3-point contest, Leopold's Caitlin Petty won the hardest spike contest, Bloomfield's Chelsea Delay won the volleyball passing competition and Notre Dame's Quinn Poythress won the slam dunk contest...

The top prizes went to the Bernie seventh grade and the Dexter eighth grade at the SCAA middle school volleyball tournament Tuesday night at Advance.