Dutchtown News

WITH ALL the time, money and effort put into stopping substance abuse, how does the city, with its extensive and positive youth programs, tolerate folks with their lawn chair pulled up to the screens watching ...

Now abandoned and overgrown, Shady Grove Cemetery is all that remains of a rural black community that drew from the area around Dutchtown and former slave-holding estates.

Some images from the most recent round of flooding to hit the area. Mark Easley tosses a sandbag onto a pile as he and others work on building levee around several homes in Dutchtown on Wednesday, June 18, ...

If ever a town was between a rock and a hard place, it would be Dutchtown. The Cape Girardeau County community at the crossroads of highways 25 and 74 has experienced more floods than residents there like to ...

Katlyn Shay Kelley and Tyler Scott Underwood were married Nov. 3, 2007, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Cape Girardeau.

Traffic stopped along Highway 177 just north of Cape Girardeau to let one lane at a time through floodwaters that backed up over the road Thursday, June 26, 2008.

Flood waters rise on a field off Highway 74 between Cape Girardeau and Dutchtown.

Thursday night Highway Patrol Trooper Todd Turlington responded to an interesting wreck on Route A, 1 mile East of Whitewater.

Homeowners in Dutchtown, Missouri tired of battling high water are learning more about flood buyouts.

Mark Easley tossed a sandbag onto a pile Wednesday as he and others worked on building levee around several homes in Dutchtown.

Dutchtown property owners decided to pursue a levee instead of a buyout Friday night at a town meeting.

There's major flooding in much of the Midwest. In the Heartland, the Mississippi River is forecasted to crest at 43.5 feet just a week from Tuesday.

For 84 of the 104 days since March 1, the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau has been above flood stage.

Not the news we want to hear, but the National Weather Service warns we could soon be in for some of the worst flooding along the Mississippi River in 15 years.

With rain pounding on the roof and the Mississippi River rising due to heavy rains upstream, residents of Dutchtown learned Monday that a flood buyout isn't as simple as having people sign up to receive a check ...

Less than three months after a levee breach caused major flooding in their tiny southeast Missouri town, Dutchtown residents are looking into the possibility of government buyouts.

MR. & MRS. ROBERT THORNBURGH Caroline Leimer and Robert Thornburgh were married Oct.

Dutchtown postmaster Mindy Lemons talked with Jim Seyer in the Dutchtown Post Office on Monday.

There's not enough good quality rock under a farm on County Road 319 to make it worth building a quarry there, J.W. Strack said Thursday to explain his decision to stop the controversial project.

The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt.