by admin | Jul 14, 2021 | Business, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt, Weather
A southeast Missouri congressman says residents in the small town of Dexter are thankful that there were no injuries or deaths in Saturday night’s EF-2 tornado, which struck the town’s hospital and damaged at least 150 homes. U.S. Rep. Jason Smith...
by admin | Jun 1, 2021 | Health / Medicine, News
(Missourinet Kennett affiliate KBOA contributed to this story) Missouri’s poorest region is getting an economic boost, with a $50 million peanut processing plant that’s being built in southeast Missouri’s Kennett. Jonesboro-based Delta Peanut held a...
by admin | Sep 15, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News
A proposed new hospital project in Kennett cleared a major hurdle Monday in Jefferson City. The Missouri Facilities Review Committee approved a certificate of need application on the proposed 49-bed acute care full-service hospital by Mainstreet HealthVentures....
by admin | Aug 17, 2020 | Business, Education, Health / Medicine, News
While Missouri has a severe shortage of rural physicians, one southeast Missouri state lawmaker says his area also needs more doctors who live there. State Rep. Herman Morse, R-Dexter, says that when he moved to Stoddard County in the mid-1970s, there were 15 to 20...
by admin | Sep 3, 2019 | Business, News
One of the largest employers in southeast Missouri’s Bloomfield received a visit Tuesday from the governor, highlighting a major multi-million dollar expansion. Governor Mike Parson traveled to Bloomfield to tour a Nestle Purina plant that’s undergoing a...
