Stories from Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Larry White, Dexter Elks Lodge member, presents certificates and $50 checks for Savings Bonds to Bell City seniors Quinton Herkenhoff, son of Dan and Sharon Herkenhoff, and Nicole Rampley, daughter of Jim Jr. and Bobbie Rampley. The two are competing with honorees from the other county schools for the Dexter Elks Students of the Year. ...

Three Bloomfield teens were injured in an accident on County Road 409, three miles north of Dexter at about 6 p.m. Saturday. According to the Highway Patrol, Lance J. DeJournett, of Bloomfield, 17, was southbound on 409, and Christopher N. Taylor, 29, also of Bloomfield, was northbound when both vehicles topped a hill and collided head-on...

Dexter Police Sept. 18-20, 2015 Kelly Smith of Dexter was arrested at 1405 Pine St. for possession of drugs (amphetamine) Eric Kushaney of Dexter was issued a summons at 320 S. Elm St. for grass cutting and removal. On Friday, Sept 18, Katie L. Jackson, 36, of Dexter was arrested at 8:19 a.m. on Business Hwy. 60 on a warrant service...

Dr. Carlos Vargas-Aburto, president of Southeast Missouri State University, addressed the Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission (BRPC) Thursday about the opportunities provided by SEMO campuses in the Bootheel and the entrepreneurial programs being offered by the university to help economic growth...

Miss Dexter High School was crowned prior to the Bearcat vs. Caruthersville football game Friday night. From left are First Alternate Kassidey Bollinger, daughter of Jim and the late Michelle Bollinger, Miss DHS, Julia Hahn, daughter of Brad and Melissa Hahn and Second Alternate MaKayla Waldner, daughter of Bob and Kim Waldner...

Nineteen-month old Clay Kelley is like any other toddler his age. He's all boy and is most content when he has a ball to toss or a toy truck or tractor to make tracks in the sand. Not long after his first birthday, though, everything changed for Clay and his parents, Brooks and Alayna Kelley of rural Dexter. Clay was no longer the typical one-year-old. Clay was diagnosed with cancer...

A Dexter man is in the Stoddard County Jail under a $35,000 cash only bond after having been witnessed driving his pickup truck Saturday just after 4:30 p.m. in the northern end of Dexter across a ditch, through a yard, on the wrong side of the street, narrowly missing striking a child and finally crashing the truck into a parked trailer on Stanley Street...

Note: A photo gallery of the Dexter-Advance volleyball game is available at this link: Volleyball Photos DEXTER, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats varsity volleyball team wrapped up its third straight SCAA regular-season conference title with a 25-18, 25-17 victory against the Advance Hornets Monday night...

FARMINGTON, Mo. - The Dexter varsity girls tennis team competed at the Farmington Invitational flighted singles tournament Saturday. Dexter's Nicole Sells placed second in the No. 4 singles flight. Sells beat Farmington's Lugo 6-0 and Farmington's Coleman 8-5 before falling to Kennett's Anna Williams 8-1 in the championship...

LEPOLD , Mo. - Trey Kirkpatrick belted three doubles as the undefeated Bernie Mules beat winless Leopold 13-0 in five innings Monday. Brock Beacham went the distance on the mound and doubled twice for Bernie (17-0). He recorded five strikeouts for the Mules...

Malinda "Marie" Davis, daughter of the late C. J. and Mary Virginia Ellen Rector May, was born in Trousdale, Kansas on Dec. 7, 1922, and died at the Lakeview Residential Care Center near Wappapello, Mo., on Sept. 21, 2015, at the age of 92. Mrs. Davis had lived most of her life in Essex. She was a member of the Olive Branch General Baptist Church in Essex and had worked as a floor supervisor at Elder Manufacturing in Dexter for many years. She enjoyed quilting...

Gale Elledge son of the late Homer Elledge and Versa Shell Elledge, was born on July 16, 1933, in Bollinger County, Mo., and died on Sept. 20, 2015, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston at the age of 82. Mr. Elledge was a retired veteran of the United States Air Force where he worked as an Avionics Technician for 22 years. ...

Betty Jean Myers, daughter of the late William Ray Silliman and Agnes Harris Silliman, was born on May 21, 1927, in Essex and died on Sept. 20, 2015, at her residence in Arnold, Mo., at the age of 88. Mrs. Myers had worked at Bussman Fuse Company and later in life at Wal-Mart. She was of the Baptist Faith...