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Living the Life of Our Future: A Dancing Rabbit Update
The first day of our first visitor session of the year was a week ago today. It so happened that on that day was the last gasp of winter with a full day of snow, falling for hours like a curtain of white corn flakes. It always amazes me that, one way or another, all…
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10 Years Ago The Scotland County R-1 Board of Education met in regular session on Thursday, April 12, 2012, at 6:30 pm. Following the election of new officers, the board tirmed ots attention to consideration of a proposal to refinances the district’s debt load from the 2007 campus renovations. The board voted 7-0 to pass…
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10 Years Ago The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the March 2012 National Overview report on April 10, confirming that March was more than just a month of scattered warmth – it shattered records across the U.S., becoming the only month ever recorded, except for January 2006, that had surpassed its record by such…
Read MoreJanice S. Simler Barnes Obituary
Janice S. (Simler) Barnes, 80, Harrisburg, PA, passed away Saturday, April 2, 2022 at Columbia Cottages, Palmyra, PA. Born August 15, 1941 in Novinger, Missouri, she was the daughter of the late Cecil and Shirley (Cauby) Simler and was a graduate of Kirksville University, Missouri. She was the wife of Steven M. Barnes, whom she…
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10 Years Ago Due to the commitment and generosity of local citizens, businesses, organizations, and sevearl in the surrounding areas, the Pheasant Airplane Committee of the Scotland County Historical Society has met its goal of raising the $75,000 needed to purcahse the Pheasant Airplane that was manufacutured here in Memphis, MO in January 1928. The…
Read MoreVirginia Anne Mallett Obituary
Virginia Anne Mallett, 86, of rural Baring, Missouri passed away March 28, 2022 at the Knox County Nursing Home. Anne was born March 24, 1936, in rural Monroe County, Missouri. She was the daughter of Richard Elisha and Germaine Campbell Redman and step-mother Mary Lucille Redman. Anne attended grades 1-4 in rural Ralls County, grades…
Read MorePhyllis Arlene (Mullinix) Stice Obituary
Phyllis Arlene (Mullinix) Stice, 82 of Downing, Missouri was led by the angels to her forever home in Heaven on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at the Schuyler County Nursing Home in Queen City, Missouri. The daughter of Raymond Earl and Alta Maude (Laws) Mullinix, she was born on June 13, 1939 in Kirksville, Missouri. She…
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60 Years Ago Robt. Moor, Chuck King, and Chipper Harris, all of Scotland County R-1 high school appeared on KTVO yesterday noon on Hal Dyler’s Almanac where they demonstrated Dynamic Reading. The pike auditorium, important building on the Campus of Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar, Missouri, burned to the ground on Monday evening, March 25.…
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60 Years Ago Warren E. Hearns, Secretary of State for Missouri, will be the main speaker at the next meeting of the US 136 Association to be held Wednesday, April 18, at 8 pm at the Scotland County R-1 high school gymnasium in Memphis. Once again a flurry of bad check writing was descended on…
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25 Years Ago With an available building and a well-trained work force Memphis was a logical choice as an expansion site for Hi-Style Inc., a sports uniform manufacturing company. But it took a little encouraging from a former employee as well as good sales pitch from a state representative to complete the sale. Troy Howell,…
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