🌱 Kennett’s Azeon Nelson earns spot on Eastern Illinois football roster.
Kennett, Missouri Patch AM: a 3 min readGood day Kennett! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Kennett’s Azeon Nelson earns spot on Eastern Illinois football roster.
- How a new mobile clinic could reach Kennett-area women in need.
- When regional newspaper leaders chose Kennett for their next big meeting.
Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: Mainly cloudy, with a high of 88 and low of 69 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: Cloudy, a shower and t-storm, temps: high: 88, low: 72.
- Sunday: A heavy t-storm in the a.m., with a high of 83 and low of 65 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Football Announces Summer Roster Additions (eiupanthers.com) — Kennett football fans can cheer on hometown product Azeon Nelson, a 2017 Kennett High School graduate and running back from Kennett, Mo., who has joined Eastern Illinois University’s roster after a strong stint at El Camino College. The Panthers announced 17 summer additions, blending high school standouts, junior-college stars, and four-year transfers from across the country. 
• Missouri Highlands and partners unveil state-of-the-art mobi... (darnews.com) — A new mobile health clinic will travel Southeast Missouri providing primary, prenatal, maternal, and behavioral care to underserved communities, an effort led by an Aetna executive who once lived in Kennett. The $720,000 Care Connect unit, launched in Poplar Bluff, aims to close gaps in rural women’s health access across the region.
• Out of the past: June 12 (semissourian.com) — A historical “Out of the Past” column recalls a 1926 decision by the Southeast Missouri Press Foundation to hold its next meeting in Kennett, highlighting the town’s role in the region’s newspaper community. The piece also revisits old telephone rate debates, meat shortages, and local leadership changes from decades ago.
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🗞 Nearby News
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- 18 Fore Life brings out a large turnout, fuels hope for the ... (dexterstatesman.com)
- Looking Back in Time 6/11/26 (standard-democrat.com)
- George A. Small, Jr., 83 - The Journal-News (thejournal-news.net)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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