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
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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.
Nov 04,BUTLER COUNTY - SEMO TIMES spoke with Butler County Clerk Tonyi Deffendall on Monday to find out the details of counting votes when there is a write-in candidate. Here are the bullet points of that conversation: Votes cast must include both the write-in name and the arrow must be connected to the right of that name Any ballots with a write-in candidate marked (every contest has a write-in listed on the ballot) are automatically separated by the voting machine for later counting The only race where a candidate has registered to be a write-in is the County Collector race, no other write-ins are allowed At 7pm and at each of the 26 polling stations the write-in ballots will be tallied Each polling station will
Nov 04,POPLAR BLUFF - Monday night’s meeting of the Poplar Bluff City Council was largely a house-keeping session, other than an announcement at the end of the meeting by City Manager Heath Kaplan that he intends to begin publication of a newsletter from his office in order to get accurate information to the people of Poplar Bluff. He said the purpose of the newsletter will be to “line out all the information regarding financial decisions” he has made, addressing each of the issues raised in a recent editorial published by the Daily American Republic. “There are 11 items that I will address that were concerns of the DAR. I hope they will also publish this information,” said Kaplan. If not, he
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