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Cutline: Pictured [from left] are sophomores 2nd Lt. Keanu Elliott, 1st Sgt. Caylee Bradley, 1st Sgt. Zachary Cambron, 1st Sgt. Paige Hooper and Command Sgt. Maj. Jonathan Miller. POPLAR BLUFF  - On Saturday, Aug. 30, in the Bill Emerson Memorial Visitor Center at Wappapello Lake, several cadets from the Poplar Bluff High School Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps attended the Fallen Soldier Ceremony, during which every name of Missouri’s soldiers who lost their lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were recited.

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Missouri’s Poplar Bluff Public Schools and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content for K-12 classrooms, announced today an expansion of their partnership that brings Discovery Education’s award-winning digital social studies and science textbooks to junior and high school classrooms district wide. Discovery Education will support the school system’s digital transformation, which is rapidly evolving in partnership with Mooresville Graded School District and helping to prepare students for success in the 21st century. “We are thrilled to expand our collaboration with Discovery Education to provide our educators with resources that are relevant to the 21st Century learner, as well as critical to preparing students to be competitive in the global economy and meeting students’ instructional needs,” said Patty Robertson,

POPLAR BLUFF - Recent Poplar Bluff Technical Career Center graduate of the practical nursing program, Roger Ray, has been selected as a post-secondary male regional award winner of the Missouri Breaking Traditions contest. Ray is eligible for a $100 scholarship from the Foundation of Missouri Women and a $1,000 scholarship from Linn State Technical College. Presently, he has accepted a position at Kneibert Clinic Urgent Care, where he plans to work for a while before becoming a registered nurse. “I’m a non-traditional student in three different ways: my gender, my age and my limited education experience after high school,” wrote Ray on the nomination form, which was submitted by his nursing instructor, Ruth Hutcheson. “If you know of something you want

Poplar Bluff – The controversy over Council Member Peter Tinsley's comments on Facebook concerning President Barack Obama and Obamacare again bubbled up at Tuesday night's meeting of the Poplar Bluff City Council when Tommy Robinson, pastor of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church again appeared before the council. “The last time I was here, I presented a concern about Councilman Peter Tinsley and comments he had made on Facebook. We requested that he apologize for his statements and that he take down the post,” said Robinson. He agreed those requests had been honored. “And I thought at the time, I would not need to be back.” But the controversy continues to be a problem in Tinsley's Ward 5, said Robinson. “The community

Poplar Bluff, Mo. - When the nation's Veterans Affairs Health system came under fire because of a scandal that grew out of a Phoenix, Az., VA Hospital, U.S. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill stepped to the forefront immediately to work to improve healthcare for U.S. Veterans. The scandal arose because veterans were not getting treatment soon enough, and because fraudulent records were being used to keep track of how long it was taking veterans to get the help they needed. McCaskill visited the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff on Tuesday to announce that the Poplar Bluff facility is being added to a survey system to keep track of how VA Centers are performing in the eyes of