Senator visits

Pictured from left, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt listens to local concerns voiced by Lester Goodin, a floodway farmer and levee district board member, Mississippi County Presiding Commissioner Carlin Bennett and County Commissioner Robert Jackson. Blunt met with local county and levee and drainage district officials as well as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives at Boomland in Charleston Thursday before touring the northern levee breach site at Birds Point, O'Bryan's Ridge and other Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway sites to view flooding damage and recovery efforts in Mississippi County.