Stories from Monday, August 3, 2015

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission set Aug. 24, 2015, at 10 a.m. in the Commission Room of the Government Building for a tax levy hearing for county drainage districts at their regular meeting Monday. The county oversees seven drainage districts in the county. The Circuit Court oversees 11 drainage districts and the Little River Drainage District has areas in the county...

Dear 151st District Constituents, I can hardly believe it is already August, it seems as if yesterday school was getting out and now the children are preparing to begin another year. The older I get, the more it seems that time passes very quickly!...

Jimmie Charles Midgett, son of the late Charles Aubry and Edith Lilly Wallace Midgett, was born in Risco on Dec. 24, 1950, and died at his home in Dexter, on July 31, 2015, at the age 64. He had lived in Risco where he worked at the Risco Public Schools, he moved to Ashland, Mo., and worked at the Ashland Public Schools until he moved to Dexter in 1999. He had been a member of the First Baptist Church in Risco and was a veteran of the U. S. Navy...

Sharon Mae Goodman, daughter of the late Leo W. Tibbs and Ruby Ann Provance Tibbs, was born on Feb. 14, 1948, in Poplar Bluff and died on Aug. 1, 2015, at SoutheastHEALTH of Stoddard County in Dexter at the age of 67. Mrs. Goodman had worked as a cashier at Amerimart and was a resident of Dexter...

Harold Hutchason Springs, 94, of Sikeston, died July 22, 2015, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center, where he was a resident for the last seven months. Born April 5, 1921, in Clines Island, to the late Ernest Sr. and Arminta Hutchason Springs, he served in the U.S. ...