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Gregory Logistics Hiring - $1,000 Sign On Bonus
September 14th 2017 by Dee Loflin
Gregory Logistics Hiring - $1,000 Sign On Bonus

Poplar Bluff, Missouri - Looking for a great local company to work for?  Want to earn $1,000 sign-on bonus?  Are you a veteran?

This job may be for you!

Family owned and operated company seeking over-the-road drivers.

Starting pay is .36 per mile with .02 per mileage bonus available.  $1,000 sign on bonus and extra $200 Veteran sign on bonus.

Home on the weekend!  No California, Florida or New York City deliveries.

100% no touch freight and mostly midwest area runs.

For more information and to apply go to www.gregorylogistics.com or stop in at 2844 Fair Street in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

Gregory Logistics is an equal opportunity employer. 


Last Updated on September 14th 2017 by Dee Loflin




Dexter PD Will Crack Down on Child Restraint Violations
September 14th 2017 by Dee Loflin
Dexter PD Will Crack Down on Child Restraint Violations
Missouri Law Requires Children under Eight to Be Buckled Up

Dexter, Missouri - Missouri law requires all children under the age of eight to be in an appropriate child safety seat or booster seat unless they are 80 lbs or 4’9” tall. 

Dexter Police Department announced today they are joining with law enforcement September 17-23 for an aggressive Child Passenger Safety Week Law Enforcement Campaign to crack down on Missouri’s child safety seat law violators and to reduce highway fatalities and injuries to children.
 
Car crashes are the number one killer of kids. Booster seat use reduces the risk of serious injury by 45 percent for children aged 4-8 years when compared with seat belt use alone. Is your child safe? 

Chief Stone said regular child safety seat and safety belt use is the single most effective way to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes. 


Last Updated on September 14th 2017 by Dee Loflin




Bloomfield Native Working on a Ghost House Novel
September 14th 2017 by Dee Loflin
Bloomfield Native Working on a Ghost House Novel

Bloomfield, Missouri - Rose Marie (Robinson) Kinder, a native of Bloomfield, Missouri, authored "The Universe Playing Strings"  She is the author of four books, including "Old Time Fiddling: Hall Sappington, Missouri Fiddler."

Her article on Missouri artist Gary Cadwallader was published in the February/March issue of Missouri Life.  She is known as a regionalist writer featuring life in small communities in Missouri and in the southwest.

Kinder is currently writing a novel about a ghost house in Missouri and conducted research for that book in Bloomfield.

Her new short story collection, "The Dancer's Son and Other Stories." was a finalist for the 2016 Richard Sullivan Prize in fiction, while her novel, "The Universe Playing Strings," was a finalist for the 2017 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Award.

From 1989 to 2002 Kinder was a professor of English at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg and is currently living in Warrensburg with her husband.


Last Updated on September 14th 2017 by Dee Loflin




Southbound Interstate 55 in Scott County Reduced for Bridge Maintenance
September 14th 2017 by Dee Loflin
Southbound Interstate 55 in Scott County Reduced for Bridge Maintenance
 Southbound I-55 in Scott County will be reduced to one lane as the Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance.

This bridge is located at MM 89.

Weather permitting, work will be performed Monday, Sep. 25 from 7:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The work zone will be marked with signs. Motorists are urged to use extreme caution while traveling near the area.

For additional information, contact MoDOT’s Customer Service Center toll-free at 1-888-ASK-MODOT (1-888-275-6636) or visit www.modot.org/southeast.

Last Updated on September 14th 2017 by Dee Loflin




Patriot's Day and a Day to Remember
September 11th 2017 by Dee Loflin
Patriot's Day and a Day to Remember
USA - If you were alive and old enough to remember September 11, 2001 then you know where you were when you heard that the first plane hit the Twin Towers.  Most of us watched it live on television or listened on the radio.  From the time it began until time for bed, we worried, we prayed, we watched in horror as our nation fell for only a moment, but none the less was attacked at home, on our soil.

As a special note, we want to thank the Boy Scouts in Dexter for putting out the flags down Business Highway 60 in Dexter.

On October 25, 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives Joint Resolution 71 was approved.   Resolution 71 requested that the President designate September 11 of each year as “Patriot Day”.  President George W. Bush signed the resolution into law on December 18, 2001 (as Public Law 107-89).

On this day, it is asked by the President that the American flag is flown at half-staff at individual American homes, the White House and on all United States government buildings and establishments at home and abroad.  The President has also asked Americans to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 A.M.(Eastern Daylight Time), the time the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.  He also strongly encourages Americans to use the Corporation for National and Community Service to find and volunteer for service opportunities.  

It was on September 10 of 2012 that President Obama issued a proclamation renaming the day as Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance, in reference to both Public Laws 107-89 and 111-13 (the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act).

“As we join in serving causes greater than ourselves and honoring those we lost, we are reminded of the ways that the victims of 9/11 live on — in the people they loved, the lives they touched, and the courageous acts they inspired.  On Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance, we pledge to carry on their legacy of courage and compassion, and to move forward together as one people.” ~Presidential Proclamation–Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance

Last Updated on September 11th 2017 by Dee Loflin




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