Perryville News

Rev. Dr. John Philip Hellwege, Jr. installed as Pastor at Salem-Zion Dual Parish in Farrar and Crosstown

The Rev. Dr. John Philip Hellwege, Jr. was installed as the Pastor of the Salem-Zion Dual Parish in Farrar and Crosstown at Salem Lutheran Church on Sunday, June 25.  Installation He was installed by Rev. Dr. Paul Winningham, the Circuit Visitor of the Altenburg Circuit on behalf of Missouri District President Rev. Dr. R. Lee

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Perry County Emergency Management Agency reminds that Perry Park Center is the community’s designated cooling center

PERRYVILLE– The Perry County Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that is has designated the Perry Park Center in Perryville as an emergency cooling center for members of the community who are suffering ill effects from the excessive heat forecast for the next several days.   “With dangerously high temperatures forecast in the coming days residents

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Perryville Police report

PERRYVILLE — The Perryville Police Department has released its latest reports.   33-year-old Darren Thomas Sullentrup of Union was arrested June 23 on a fugitve warrant out of Ste. Genevieve County.   According to the report, Sullentrup was arrested following a traffic stop in the area of Perryville Boulevard.

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Riverside Regional Library announces Programs and Events in Perryville and Altenburg for July 2023

JACKSON, Mo. – The Riverside Regional Library has released its list of programs and events for July 2023.   There are two Riverside Regional Library branches in the River Region: 66 Poplar Street in Altenburg (573) 824-5267 and 800 City Park Drive, Perryville (573) 547-6508.   All Riverside Regional Library Programs are family friendly and

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Tractor fire spreads to farm field north of Brewer; 20 acres burned

PERRYVILLE — Fire units from the area were called out Monday afternoon to a field in the 300 block of Trails End off Highway 61 north of Brewer, by a report of a tractor on fire, setting the field ablaze with a threatened structure nearby. Witnesses said one man was hurt, with possible serious injuries,

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Discovering your French heritage in Perry County

PERRYVILLE – We know the greatest numbers of early Perry County migrants consisted of the Baptists from Pennsylvania, the great numbers of English Catholics from Maryland via Kentucky, the Methodists and Presbyterians from North Carolina, then the great surge of German immigration consisting of the Bavarian Lutherans, then the Saxon Lutherans and the Bavarian Catholics.

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