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  • Dec 29, 2023 | semissourian.com | Jeff Long

    When I consider your heavens,The work of your fingers,The moon and the stars,Which you have set in place, What is humanity, O God, that you are mindful of us,Human beings that you care for us? Psalm 8:3-4/NIV. Two years ago on Christmas Day 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope.

  • Dec 15, 2023 | semissourian.com | Jeff Long

    If asked for my favorite superhero, Superman would come to mind first for me. Each time our personal vehicle crosses into Metropolis, Illinois, we visit Superman Square and are again reminded of the mythical figure whose strength and otherworldly abilities far exceeded even the most impressive human.

  • Nov 17, 2023 | semissourian.com | Jeff Long

    Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. -- "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1973, a song written in memory of Marilyn Monroe. When you think you may have heard or seen it all, it's instructive occasionally to realize you haven't. Case in point. Last week, noted sex therapist Ruth Westheimer was named an honorary "loneliness ambassador" by New York Gov.

  • Nov 1, 2023 | semissourian.com | Jeff Long

    Three local men, including a current state official, were among seven people inducted Friday, Oct. 27, as the 2023 class of Missouri Veterans Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony was held in the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City. Retired Lt. Col. Albert "Wayne" Wallingford of Cape Girardeau, Missouri's state revenue director and former Missouri legislator, served in the Air Force from 1968 to 1993 as a navigator and electronic warfare officer.

  • Nov 1, 2023 | semissourian.com | Jeff Long

    Scott County presiding Commissioner Danny Tetley says he has no information on why the Camping World location off Interstate 55 near Cape Girardeau Regional Airport hasn't opened. The 33,000-square-foot facility on a 12-acre parcel along Nash Road has been, by all appearances, completely finished for well over a year. "I reached out to the company probably four or five months ago to ask when the store would open and they said they'd not set a date yet," said Tetley, who was elected in August 2022.

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