Republican Candidate Emily Clark Parks won Tuesday night’s election for the Butler County Collector’s Office by 437 votes. Her total votes were 3,974 versus Write-In Candidate Tammy Marler’s 3,537 votes. Democrat Chris Michel obtained 889 votes. Clark, the official Republican candidate, won 47.31 percent of the county’s votes and slightly over 5 percent more than Marler’s write-in votes. By 8:15 p.m. all 27 Butler County precincts had reported in, having had to carry their boxes of ballots up the stairs of the Butler County Courthouse because the elevator was not working. According to the still uncertified election results, 8,592 ballots were cast in Butler County, giving a voter turnout rate of 34.6 percent of the county’s registered voters. In the
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Dunklin County unofficial election results can be viewed in PDF form.
Nov 04,POPLAR BLUFF — Jason Smith released the following statement on tonight's election results: "As a seventh-generation Missourian, I am truly humbled that the voters of southeast Missouri have re-elected me to represent them in Congress. "Since the voters first elected me as their congressman 17 months ago, I have battled to get government out of the way so southeast and southern Missouri can thrive. "As a farmer and small business owner, I've seen firsthand how government intrusion stifles economic growth. That's why I introduced legislation called the SCRUB Act to clear out the thousands of pages of regulations that hurt our businesses and farms and keep good jobs from being created. I have fought to keep unconstitutional government overreach from compromising our personal
Nov 04,Poplar Bluff High School senior Darian Sales won a PlayStation Vita on Thursday, Oct. 30, for being named Ambassador of the Week in the national Graduate for Mas program, sponsored by the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens. Sales won the challenge by encouraging classmates to take the online pledge to graduate and also by participating in online activities that are college and career based, according to PBHS guidance counselor Tamara Day. As of the end of last week, Poplar Bluff Schools was No. 2 out of 1,200 schools in the United States—just below a district out of Huntington Beach, Calif.—for having had over 30 percent of high school students sign the pledge.
Nov 04,The fire chief and mayor honored a 6-year-old boy of the Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center on Thursday, Oct. 23, for recently saving the lives of his family during a house fire. Hunter Schmidt reportedly saw smoke coming from a wall one Friday evening last month and awoke the adult of the house, who got the rest of the children out of the structure. Poplar Bluff Fire Chief Ralph Stucker and Hunter’s family attributed his quick thinking to an emergency presentation the boy was previously given during fire prevention week at the Early Childhood Center, according to the Daily American Republic.
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