• You Paid For It – More About City Cable Sale

    SEMO TIMES has unearthed yet another disturbing instance of former City Manager Doug Bagby’s careless management and costly inattention to the city’s fiscal health. First, Bagby and his coalition on the council left the new leaders with a $3M deficit in the employees’ health insurance fund. Next, the taxpayers footed the bill for successfully challenging the clever, but illegal, perpetual contract that Bagby orchestrated. And now, the most recent instance of manipulation, playing sleight of hand with public money in the sale of City Cable. Eight months and six days after City Council voted to sell the cable system, Utilities Manager Bill Bach stood before City Council on September 23 and said, “The ZCorum contract was not included” in the

    Oct 31,
    - by Staff Writer

  • Police Search for Alleged Sexual Predator with Violent Tendencies

    John L Squires White Male, 55 years old, 5”8” weighing 150 pounds with gray/brown hair and blue eyes, has absconded from Probation and Parole supervision. Squires currently is wanted on a no bond warrant for absconding. Squires is considered a sexual predator with violent tendencies. On 10-29-2014 John L Squires cut off his electronic ankle monitor and fled supervision while attending a doctors appointment in Poplar Bluff.   Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of John L Squires is encouraged to contact law enforcement.

    Oct 29,
    - by Press Release

  • September Athletes of the Month Named

    Poplar Bluff - The Poplar Bluff Mules Booster Club has selected Poplar Bluff High School Tennis star Stephanie Hobbs and Mules Football standout Steven Haley as the September Athletes of the Month. Haley, a junior, completed nine games with 113 tackles, 14 tackles for loss and three sacks. His cumulative GPA is 11.036 weighted. Hobbs, also a junior, is the No. 4 varsity player with a singles record of 7-5 and a doubles of 5-7. Her cumulative GPA is 11.2 weighted.

    Oct 29,
    - by Poplar Bluff School District

  • Grad Center Students Complete G2J Program

    Poplar Bluff - A total of 11 students from the Graduation Center were awarded certificates for completing the Gateway 2 Jobs program with distinction on Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce. This is the fourth year the Chamber has hosted G2J as a way for students to better position themselves to land a job following school. Chamber President Steve Halter credits Sharon Kissinger of Sharon Kissinger Investments for helping the Chamber with the conception of the program, which includes a series of visits from business leaders and exercises such as mock interviews. For the first time this year, the Three Rivers Endowment Trust awarded a $500 scholarship for a G2J graduate to attend the

    Oct 29,
    - by Poplar Bluff School District

  • School District Has Two Newly Published Authors

    Poplar Bluff - The Poplar Bluff Public Library hosted its first Local Author Fair—featuring two recently published authors from the R-I school district—on Saturday, Oct. 4, during the Iron Horse Festival. Communication arts teacher Rachel Stiber of Poplar Bluff Junior High School released “Elise’s Choice” via Creative Prose Publishing based in Utah on Aug. 25. “Elise’s Choice” is a fantasy novel about a young lady who must make a choice that ends up affecting her life as well as the lives of everyone in her village, according to Stiber, who writes as a hobby. Art teacher Charles Gearhart of O’Neal Elementary School released “Never Nurse a Grudge” via Rocking Horse Publishing in St. Louis on Sept. 23. “Never Nurse a

    Oct 29,
    - by Poplar Bluff School District
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