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Lawanda Rainwater
(Obituary ~ 11/11/05)
Lawanda Yvonne Rainwater, 69, of Covington, Tenn., formerly of Campbell, Mo., died Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Tipton, Tenn. Born Dec. 23, 1935, in Campbell, daughter of the late Rolla H. and Vietta N. Lewis Perry, she was a bookkeeper...
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Timothy Minton
(Obituary ~ 11/11/05)
Timothy Ray Minton, 35, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Bernie, Mo., died Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Born Oct. 24, 1970, in St. Charles, Ill., son of Frank Ray Minton and Sandra Brown, he was a welder and a member of the First Pentecostal Church in Malden, Mo...
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James Davis
(Obituary ~ 11/11/05)
James R. Davis, 76, of Holcomb, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005, at his residence. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, at the McDaniel Funeral Home Chapel...
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Florence Ward
(Obituary ~ 11/11/05)
Florence Louise Conner Ward of Pinson, Tenn., formerly of Kennett, died Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005 at her residence. Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m., Saturday, November 12th at the Meridian Baptist Church in Jackson, Tenn. with Dr. Ronny Wilburn officiating...
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Paul Dean Carter
(Obituary ~ 11/11/05)
Paul Dean Carter, 66, of Kennett, died Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005, at Jonesboro, Ark. Born May 31, 1939, in Kennett, son of the late Delbert and Francis Williams Carter, he was a crop insurance adjuster and a member of the First Baptist Church in Holcomb, Mo...
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Kennett Indians win four games in middle school action
(High School Sports ~ 11/11/05)
Kennett Middle School basketball fans had an afternoon and evening full of action Thursday night. First the Lady Indians hosted the Lady Tigers from Caruthersville. Then the Indians hosted the Senath-Hornersville Lions. The Indians' squads won every game last night...
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Good news for motorists: Area fuel prices are falling
(Local News ~ 11/11/05)
Consumers should be happy to learn that the price for a barrel of crude oil fell by more than $1 on Thursday, setting the price of crude oil below $58 a barrel for the first time since late July. In Kennett, the price at the pump is ranging anywhere from $2.05 per gallon of unleaded fuel to $2.19, while prices just 25 miles north of Kennett have fallen below $2 per gallon...
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Southland awarded grant for text books
(Local News ~ 11/11/05)
The Southland School Board meeting on Thursday night revealed that the school has recently received a grant that has allowed them to purchase new text books for the school library. The grant was actually from 2004 but the school has received the promised approximate $7,000 for the 2005-2006 school year. ...
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MFH awards grants for health care services
(Local News ~ 11/11/05)
The Missouri Foundation for Health awarded nearly $1 million in grants to non-profit organizations recently to fund health-care services for Hurricane Katrina survivors, said Kennett physician Dr. Steve Pu. In the Bootheel, the Dunklin County Health Department at Kennett received $90,000 for medical, dental and vision services, as well as a separate $200,000 grant for the Healthy Families program; the SEMO Health Network at New Madrid was awarded $83,520 for providing medical and dental care; and Bootheel Counseling Services at Sikeston received $15,220 to provide counseling and resource coordination to both survivors and those who serve them in New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard and Mississippi counties, Pu said.. ...
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No pay raises for county officials
(Local News ~ 11/11/05)
Dunklin County elected officials won't see a salary increase after the next local elections, County Clerk Charles Isbell said Thursday. The Dunklin County Salary Commission, which includes all county elected officials as members, voted unanimously to fund salaries at 100 percent of their 2005 levels, Presiding Commissioner Don Collins said...
- Kennett All District Choir members (Local News ~ 11/11/05)
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Off the grid and onto the griddle
(Column ~ 11/11/05)
A few years ago we bought a 160-year-old farmhouse. We like big, old rambling houses with tack rooms and mud rooms and summer kitchens and maid's rooms and back staircases and six-over-six windows that still have some of the original panes of glass still in them. Unfortunately, we also like electricity, and all the things that come with it--running water, central heat and flushable toilets...
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They want to fight
(Column ~ 11/11/05)
President Bush probably thought that, in nominating Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court, he had hit on a particularly clever solution to the problem of whom to choose. He was, no doubt, after their 10 years of close contact, absolutely sure of her devotion to the cause of conservative jurisprudence. The mistake made by his father in nominating Justice David Souter must rankle deep in the Bush family, and it's a safe bet that George W. was certain he wasn't taking any chances in that regard...
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Dems selective memories on Iraq war
(Column ~ 11/11/05)
The majority of Senate Democrats supported the war that would take down the evil tyrant Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and give his oppressed people a chance at democracy. But you would never know that by listening to many of these fair-weathered war supporters lately. You'd almost think it's a shame poor Saddam Hussein is standing trial later this month. But the second-guessing of the White House's reasons for going into Iraq exposes their own selective memories on prewar matter...
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