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The Dent County Commissioners held their regular meeting Thursday morning at the Dent County Courthouse. At the meeting, District 1 Commissioner Bobby Simpson reported that APAC got started with the chip and seal on the Cedar Grove Road Tuesday after they discovered a part had broken on the chip spreader on Monday. The Cedar Grove Road is now completed and the two cost share chip and seal roads will be completed this week barring something unforeseen happening. Simpson also reported that work continued on the Gladden West Road, also known as Dent County Road 624, as they are doing ditch work and gravel is being hauled to the road as well. In District 2, Commissioner J.J. Tune reported that Dent County Road 221 is still being rebuilt and gravel is continuing to be hauled there from the quarry. He said that a double chip and seal is being done on the Golf Course Road and APAC is also working on Dent County Road 615 and that road actually goes through both districts. Tune also said that brush cutting was going to be done on Dent County Roads 531, 533A and 573. Presiding Commissioner Darrell Skiles attended the Spring Creek meeting Monday night and the group heard from a DNR hydrologist and geologist who discussed the water tables, tributaries and streams in the area. He also attended the local emergency planning committee meeting Tuesday. He said that Kim Ozokio and Jamie Jadwin from the health center completed Red Cross shelter training and feel much more prepared than before if an emergency should occur. He said that Jim Paisley showed a slide show on emergency response to the group and wanted to re-emphasize that everybody should have at least three days of food and water on hand and available in case of emergencies as it will take at least that long for SEMA to get assistance to the area. The board held the final Board of Equalization hearings Thursday morning. The next meeting of the Dent County Commissioners will be Monday morning at 9:00 and the meeting is open to the public.

Captain Randy Becker, Commanding Officer of Troop I, Rolla, announces that during a sobriety spot-check, a total of 37 arrests were made and 60 warnings issued as a result of the checkpoint held in Crawford County on July 6^th.  This spot-check was conducted from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. on Missouri Highway 8, near the entrance to the Steelville City Park. The arrest totals for the spot-check included three arrests for driving while intoxicated, five arrests for a minor possessing an alcoholic beverage and one arrest for an outstanding felony warrant. Traffic arrests during the operation included 10 citations for failure to wear a seat belt, one for a hazardous moving violation, seven for non-moving traffic offenses, seven for driver’s license violations, and three for not having proper vehicle insurance. Assisting the Highway Patrol at this spot-check were officers from the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department and the Steelville Police Department.

The Dent County 4-H is taking your old cell phones. Old, broken or out of service cells are being recycled and the Dent County 4-H will be collecting them over the summer. There are more than 26 million idle cell phones and they can be broken down and their parts recycled. Repairable phones will be restored for elderly emergency phones. You can drop off your old cell phones at drop off boxes at the Salem Post Office, Pizza Inn, Country Mart, Bank of Salem, Phil-Mart and at the Dent County Extension Office.

Dent County Collector Dennis Medlock is reminding taxpayers that if they don’t want to see their property on the list to be sold on the courthouse steps in the Salem News, they need to get in immediately and pay their taxes. The list of property to be sold on the courthouse steps in August for unpaid taxes will be submitted to the Salem News on July 19^th. For more information, call the Dent County Collector’s office at 729-3911.

The 13^th Annual Dent County All-School Reunion will be held tomorrow at the Salem High School Cafeteria with registration at 10:00. A meal will be served at noon and a $5.00 donation is requested to help make the reunion a success. For more information, call the SHSAA President, Angie Curley, at 729-2280.

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Funeral services for Betty Hutson Coppedge of Salem, age 77, will be held today at 10:00 at the Wilson Mortuary Chapel. Interment will be in the North Lawn Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Salem Public Library, Phelps County Hospice or the Salem Christian Church.

Funeral services for Maurice Cape of Steelville, age 96, will be held today at 11:00 at the Presbyterian Church in Steelville. Interment will be in the Steelville Cemetery.

Funeral services for Jessie Lowell Hinson of Rolla, formerly of Salem, age 81, will be Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at the Dent County Memorial Chapel in Salem. Visitation will be after 11:00 until time for the service. Interment will be in the Crossville Cemetery in Bunker.

Funeral services for Edwin Henry Williams of Steelville, age 88, will be held Saturday at 2:00 at the Britton-Bennett Funeral Home in Steelville. Visitation will be from 10:00 AM until service time on Saturday. Interment will be in the Steelville Cemetery.

Funeral services for John Hopkins Byrd of St. James, age 64, will be held Sunday at 2:00 at the James & Gahr Mortuary in St. James. Visitation will be from noon until service time.

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