Here is the On the Move column so far for the September magazine.
€ West Plains ‹ Dennis Crider retired Aug. 1 as sports editor of the West Plains Daily Quill.
Crider joined the Quill in 1969 as a writer/photographer. Allison Wilson took over as sports editor.
In his farewell message, Crider said he planned to travel with his wife, Phyllis, play music, work on a couple of books and expend on selling photographs at arts and crafts shows.
€ Springfield ‹ Dorothy Gardner retired on Aug. 17 as vice president after 20 years with the Springfield Business Journal. She plans to spend more time with her family and with volunteer work.
€ Platte City ‹ Patty Stubbs, owner with her husband Lee of the Platte County Citizen, has become a licensed emergency medical technician and is working on getting paramedic certification.
She has ceased working at the newspaper, where she was the office manager and helped with sales and production.
€ Rolla ‹ Floyd Jernigan was named publisher of the Waynesville Daily Guide and the Rolla Daily News beginning Aug. 4. He replaced Joel Goodridge.
Jernigan, 52, previously was publisher of the Duncan Banner in Oklahoma, a daily newspaper of about 8,000 circulation. He also has been publisher of the East Oregonian in Pendleton, Oregon, and the News-Record in Miami, Okla.
Jernigan and his wife, Barbara, have three children.
GateHouse Media Inc. owns the Rolla and Waynesville papers.
€ Mercer ‹ Sheila Hogue has joined the Mercer Mirror as a writer, photographer and ad sales rep. She spent her youth in the Missouri and Arkansas areas but moved to Mercer from Dallas, Texas.
She has worked around the country as a photographer and entertainer. Before joining the weekly she was secretary for the Princeton/Mercer United Methodist Church.
€ Independence ‹ Michael Glover has joined the staff of The Examiner as the reporter covering health and public safety and Jackson County government.
A Higginsville native, Glover is a 1999 graduate of Lafayette County High School. He earned a degree in journalism from Missouri State in 2004.
Glover worked for more than three years as a reporter for the Fort Scott Tribune in Kansas.
€ Holden ‹ Joanie Lerda is a new ad sales rep for the Holden Image and Penny Saver shopper. She also sells for the Lone Jack Corridor and the Crest Ridge Corridor.
Lerda and her son live in Holden.
€ Marshall ‹ Rachel Harper has left the news staff of the Marshall Democrat-News. She now is a unit public affairs representative for the Missouri Army National Guard. She focuses on units and armories in Clinton, Harrisonville, Lexington, Marshall, Sedalia, Warrensburg and Whiteman Air Force Base.
€ Cassville ‹ Leatrice Strother retired as editor of The Barry County Advertiser in July. She had worked with The Advertiser since August 1976.
Melonie Roberts of Pierce City succeeded Strother. Roberts has worked at The Branson Beacon, The Miller Press, The Greenfield Vedette, The Marionville Free Press and The Monett Times.
€ St. Louis ‹ The Post-Dispatch has promoted Blake Dickie to vice president of production. Dickie has been with the newspaper since 2002 and has overseen the production department since 2007.
€ Republic ‹ Rodger Wheeler has been named sports editor of the Republic Monitor.
€ Kansas City ‹ The Star has promoted Tim Doty from director of classified advertising to vice president over all advertising. Doty, 51, succeeds Peter Ricker, who left the paper in May to become senior vice president of advertising at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix.
This is Doty’s second stint with The Star, following jobs with newspapers in Arkansas, Tennessee, Ohio and Indiana. He first joined The Star in 1984 as an account executive. He left in 1990 to become retail sales manager of The Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock.
Doty returned to Kansas City in 2007 to become vice president of marketing for Firefly Marketing Communications. In December he rejoined The Star as director of classified advertising.
He now oversees about 200 employees. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas, is married and has two children.
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