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Kennett Middle School educator Tina Brown has been awarded the Teacher of The Year for District 15 from the VFW. The VFW annually recognizes the nation’s top teachers who teach at least half of the school day in a classroom environment and promote America’s history, traditions and citizenship education effectively...

It’s not every day that a pastor returns to his hometown to pastor the church he grew up in, but that’s exactly what Kennett native Steven Scherer has done. “I went back and forth,” said Scherer. “I fluctuated a lot, from being very interested, to not being interested at all.”...

Once again children can can visit Santa on the Square in Kennett. After missing last year due to illness Dink Billington will return as the right jolly old elf. “It’s one of the brightest memories from when I was a little kid,” said Billington. “It’s one of my favorite memories, standing in line waiting to see Santa and tell him what I wanted and just being a kid.”...

The Senath State Bank will once again sponsor an Angel Tree. Bank employees contacted area nursing homes and were given the names of angels. The Angels are able to be adopted at the bank's Kennett branch located at 1112 1st Street in Kennett. Gifts must be returned to the branch from where the angel was adopted, no later than Wednesday, Dec. 18...

The Kennett Veterinarian Clinic and Dr. Everett Mobley are known to be avid supporters of the Kennett Humane Department, so it’s no surprise that each year just before the Christmas holiday season, KVC puts up a very special kind of tree, which they refer to as, ‘The Fur Ball Tree.’...

The Senath Ministerial Alliance along with the Dunklin County Health Department and SEMO Food Bank held a food pantry event on Thursday, December 5 at the Senath Community Center. Rich Oliver, pastor at First Assembly of God in Senath, and Chris Hicks, pastor at the Senath First Baptist Church were on hand to help distribute the grocery items...

Michele Bell from Caruthersville, Missouri, has been missing since Monday night according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol missing persons list. The 36-year-old woman was last seen Monday night from an overpass north of Haiti, Missouri, where she was reported to have been travelling south on Interstate 55, according to Caruthersville Police Department assistant chief of police Jerry Hudgens...

It’s not every day that a pastor returns to his hometown to pastor the church he grew up in, but that’s exactly what Kennett native Steven Scherer has done. “I went back and forth,” said Scherer. “I fluctuated a lot, from being very interested, to not being interested at all.”...