Stories from Wednesday, October 12, 2022

The Stoddard County Commissioners met in a regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.  Monday was the Columbus Day/Indigenous People's Day holiday so they chose to move the meeting to Tuesday. Update on Water District #5 Ivan Bostic joined the meeting.  He is a concerned citizen there to discuss the Water District #5.  He wanted to know what was going on with Water District #5...

At the Lair Event Center a special group of people gathered for their second annual prom. The prom goers were from the Stoddard County ARC, Family Matters Dayhab, Sikeston and many more. The event was the Family Matters Adult Dayhab Prom. It is an event for Department of Mental Health consumers. ...

The Stoddard County Commission held a special meeting Wednesday afternoon to open bids from the final insurance brokers bidding on the new insurance plan for county employees. Presiding Commissioner Danny Talkington said the first bid to be opened was from Arch Brokerage received on October 6 at 8:54 a.m. ...

Dennis Neil Long, 69, of Cape Girardeau, passed away, Sunday, October 9, 2022 at Southeast Hospital. He was born October 23,1952, in Cape Girardeau to the late Benton and Louise Revelle Long. Dennis and Marlene Kielhofner were married January 6, 1973. They were looking forward to celebrating 50 years together...

SHARON KAY HOLYFIELD, age 58, died Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at her residence in Jackson. Sharon was born July 10, 1964 in Brawley, California to Thomas and Carolyn Elizabeth Ross Holyfield. Her family returned to Sikeston in 1966, where she graduated from Sikeston High School and then attended Southeast Missouri State University. ...

Loretta Louise Vardell Roach, 92, of Puxico, passed away on October 10, 2022 at Cypress Point Nursing Center in Dexter, MO. She was born November 13, 1929 in Puxico, the daughter of Lonnie and Edna Hughes Vardell. Loretta had been instrumental in the development of the Stoddard County Ambulance District. She had worked as an EMT; she was the first employee to ever retire from the Stoddard County Ambulance District...