Stories from Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Theoda Litzler, daughter of the late William Williams and Lucy Livingston Williams was born in Stoddard County, Missouri on May 28, 1926, and departed this life on November 13, 2023, in Woodstock, Virginia at the age of 97. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on November 20, 2023. Interment followed in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

“We always tell people that Black Friday is not the beginning of the Christmas season in Dexter and Stoddard County,” said Greg Mathis. “Our Christmas Reading is.” The Christmas Reading started 15 years ago On December 5, 2009 at 8:15 p.m. The guest reader for the first event was Jim Hall with an attendance of 50 people. The attendance at the first reading exceeded the hopes of Mathis as he said he hoped to have 35 people at the event. The event know sees an attendance of more than 600...

Stoddard County Warranty Deeds County Recorder Candy Collier 11/13/23 to 11/17/23 • Laurence Michael Galloway, Lou Ann Galloway to Galloway Trust MIDDLE CREEK ESTATES III LOT 5 • Rebecca S Newman to Bobby H Aycock, Jr., Julie L Aycock SEC 13 TWP 26 R 11...

Kennett still struggles with the loss of health care access, as well as 300 jobs, from the closing of the county’s only hospital in 2018. Poplar Bluff sees a need for both more people in its workforce and developable land for new enterprises. Affordable childcare impacts Sikeston families...