Stories from Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The Puxico School Board moved forward with the Puxico School Bond and placed the bond on the April ballot. If the bond passes the district will build a new 30,000 square foot elementary school. Prior to the vote board member Kristi Siler asked what the public response has been thus far. Superintendent Cindy Crabb along with two other board members, Chad Payne and Dusty Stroud, said the response has been positive so far...

Nestle Purina recently presented $25,000 to Puxico Project 4 Paws, along with a donation of dog food. The grant money will jump-start the organization’s project to build a new animal shelter. Puxico Project 4 Paws is a nonprofit organization that was started in 2020 to support the city of Puxico Animal Control. The organization is led by CEO Jennifer Sokolowski, Karen Sanders and Tammy Corbin Beck...

Maxine Garner was born June 24, 1932 to Vevlean Hamby Clary in Bloomfield. She departed from this life on January 17, 2021, at her home in Dexter, at the age of 88. Maxine married Robert Dale “Bob” Garner on July 13, 1950, in Piggott, Arkansas. They were devoted to one another and raised five children together...

SNIDER, Billy Ray, of House Springs, Missouri, was born February 6, 1938 in Bernie, Missouri to James and Pearle (nee White) Snider and entered into rest Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at his home in House Springs, Missouri at the age of 82 years, 11 months and 6 days...

Iva A. Horn, daughter of the late Jack Dowdy and Marie Dempsey Dowdy, was born on April 13, 1936 in Clarksville, Arkansas, and departed this life on January 16, 2021 at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 84 years. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from 5 p.m. ...

Timothy Wade Shelton 54 of Bernie, passed away January 18, 2021 at his home. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on Friday, January 28, 2021 from 11:00 A.M. until 12:00 P.M. Funeral services will then be conducted at 12:00 P.M. Interment will follow in Bernie Cemetery. Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie in charge of all arrangements...

The Zalma General Baptist Church will hold its 15th annual Special Needs Dinner and Auction on Saturday, March 6. The event will take place in the Zalma High School Gymnasium. The menu will be chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, coleslaw, dessert and drink...

• Jasper A. Cantrell, 46, of Dexter was booked at the Stoddard County Jail on a Stoddard county warrant for failure to appearmisdemeanor. • Matthew Wayne Waller, 37, of Cape Girardeau was booked at the Stoddard County Jail on a probation/parole vlolation-parole hold...

• Two Stoddard County teenagers were injured in a one-vehicle crash at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, at the intersection of County Road 322 and County Road 623 in Bollinger County. According to the report, Jason M. Barrentine, 23, of Malden was operating a 2005 Pontiac Sunfire southbound when it ran off the road into a ditch...

Route TT in Stoddard County will be reduced as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulder repairs. This section of roadway is located from Route 60 to County Road 642. Weather permitting, work will take place Thursday, Jan. 21 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m...

• Dexter Police arrested Cori Jackson, 34 of Sikeston, on the charges of stealing/shoplifting, first degree trespassing and a warrant service from another agency. • Dexter Police arrested James Snider, 18 of Holcomb, on the charges of first degree trespassing and stealing/shoplifting...