Anna-Jonesboro Community High School girls’ golf coach Brandon Bierstedt lost a lot to graduation last season. “We lost four starters who graduated,” Bierstedt said. “But I still think we can be ...

Cyclists who are participating in the 2018 Remember the Removal Bike Ride were guests last Sunday at the landmark Camp Ground Church near Anna. The cyclists are in the midst of a three-week journey ...

History comes alive through the play “The Golconda Madstone,” which is about a stone that is said to have cured people of mad dog and poison snake bites. The play was written by Eva Baker Watson.

Michael Wayne Morgan, 74, of Jonesboro, passed away Saturday, April 5, 2025, at his home. He was born on Feb. 16, 1951, in Anna, the son of William Paul and Luella Marie (Kelley) Morgan. He married ...

Kenneth Claus Chilman of Cobden passed away peacefully at home, on Saturday, April 12, 2025. He was a forester with an adventurous, kind soul who will be missed. Ken was born in Platte, S.D. on March ...

Kelton Keith “ Bear” Grear, 71, of Murphysboro, and formerly of Dongola, died Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marion. He was born on Nov. 22, 1950, the son of John ...

Mark Gean Hubbs, 62, of West Lafayette, Ind., died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, at his home. He was born on Nov. 20, 1962, in Joliet. He was the son of Jennings Clifton “JC” and Jammie Jeannette Harris ...

Bonita June Laster, 64, of Jonesboro, died Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau with her family by her side. She was born on June 6, 1960, in Memphis, Tenn., the ...

Helen Kathleen Arnold-Sanders, 96, of Anna, died Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, at her home. She was born on Aug. 22, 1927, in Union County, the daughter of Chester and Zora Mae Pearce Fuller. She married ...

Lorraine Benner, 91, of Makanda, died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on July 20, 1932, in Dubuque, Iowa, the daughter of ...

Dr. Dennis P. Robinson was born on Sept. 30, 1946, at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital in Chicago, the son of Phil and Betty Robinson. Dr. Robinson died on Feb. 11, 2024, in Harrisonburg, Va. Dennis ...

Rowena Peeler, 87, of Dongola, died Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at Delmar Gardens South in St. Louis. She was born on Jan. 3, 1934, in Bismarck, Mo., the daughter of Riley and Alta Alexander Rainwater.