November 2024

Mercy Southeast provides tuition assistance for health care students

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Mercy’s Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences is welcoming its first class of Win From Within students. These students are all co-workers at Mercy Southeast who receive tuition assistance from Mercy.     Win From Within students work at Mercy Hospital Southeast as patient care associates, nurse technicians or […]

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MO Route 51 in Perry County reduced for bridge repairs

SIKESTON—Missouri Route 51 in Perry County will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform pavement repairs on the Chester Bridge over the Mississippi River. You can see the Mississippi River through the hole in the driving surface of the Chester Bridge. This section of roadway

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Red Cross on 2024 trends – Climate crisis creates massive humanitarian needs amid nonstop disaster responses

St. LOUIS, MO — In 2024, climate crisis mounted an overwhelming toll on people in Missouri and the U.S., who relied on the American Red Cross for relief and care as they faced the country’s second-highest number of billion-dollar disasters ever recorded. This year’s 24 major climate and weather events — each with losses exceeding $1

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Sandra K. Vessels

A funeral will be held Thursday, November 21, 2024 for 68-year-old Sandra K. Vessels of Red Bud, Illinois, who passed away at 10:48 am, Friday, November 15, 2024 at Mercy Hospital South, St. Louis, Missouri.   She was born December 15, 1955 in St. Louis, Mo. a daughter to Jake B. and Pearl I. (nee

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Rose M. Palmer

A funeral will be held Friday, November 22 for 88-year-old Rose M. Palmer of Sainte Genevieve, Mo. who passed away Sunday, November 17, 2024 at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis, MO.   She was born October 22, 1936 in Ste Genevieve, MO, a daughter of Walter Morice and Alvina (Braun) Thomure.   She married

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Elbert A. Hadler

Elbert A. Hadler, 89, of Perryville, Missouri passed away Thursday, November 14, 2024 at Independence Care Center of Perry County. He was born February 22, 1935 in Menfro, MO to Henry Paul and Erna A. (Schuessler) Hadler. Elbert and Janet Abernathy were married on June 25, 1960 at Calvary Baptist Church. She survives him in

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