Stories from Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The Dexter Board of Aldermen held a special meeting Thursday afternoon at which time the board set the tax levy for the city’s fiscal year. City Attorney Yewell “Bud” Lawrence said the city’s total 2022 valuation is $112,959,537. This breaks down to Real Estate $75,752,478, Personal Property $31,770,440, Railroad and Utility (State Assessed) $4,353,487 and Railroad and Utility (Local Assessed) $1,083,132...

The Dexter School Board opened its August meeting with its annual tax rate hearing. Superintendent Amy James said every year the district submits paperwork to the state auditor’s office to review and approve the operating levy (incidental fund, teachers fund and capital projects fund) and the dibit service levy...

Stoddard County Emergency Management Director Andrew Bohnert told the Stoddard County Commission that the sudden storm on Friday resulted in damage to FM Bank, First Baptist Church, Heartland Furniture Busy B Lumber. Additionally more than 3,500 customers in the Dexter area lost power according to the Ameren Missouri website...

Paula Kaye Reed Smith, daughter of the late James Paul Reed and Loyce Lucillia Patterson Reed, was born on June 28, 1944, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and departed this life on August 23, 2022, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 78. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday, August 27, 2022. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

Elbert Massingill, son of the late Alexander Massingill and Betty Duvall Massingill, was born on February 3, 1934, in Hattieville, Arkansas, and departed this life on August 24, 2022, in Rockford, Illinois at the age of 88. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on Saturday, September 3, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel at 2:00 p.m. Interment will follow in the Bernie Cemetery in Bernie, Missouri...

The Bloomfield School Board set its annual tax levy at its August meeting Tuesday evening. Superintendent Toni Hill told the board that the district’s total 2022 valuation was $58,151,622 which resulted in a $3.3600 tax levy. No members of the public were in attendance to comment on the tax levy. The board then approved the 2022/23 tax levy...