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Drury University’s Law Enforcement Academy will now provide students in the West Plains area access to their training program. Through the mirror academy, lectures will be taught synchronously with the Springfield campus, allowing students outside of Springfield to attend the academy online in...
The Mountain View City Council met on Tuesday, May 9 with a small agenda.
A topic at the forefront of everyone’s mind was an opening date for the city pool.
The Board of Alderman again discussed the pool rates for the 2023 season as well as the pool budget and a possible opening date. For...
The Willow Springs school board heard an update from the Ozarks Family YMCA regarding a new facility at its meeting May 8.
Chad Watson, executive director for the YMCA, showed the board preliminary drawings for the facility. He said hopes are that it will be 25,000 square feet, including two...
After two long years, the city of Mountain View can look forward to opening the pool for the summer. A tentative date of the fifteenth of June has been set, if construction can be finalized.
"We're at their mercy," said City Operations Manager Eddie Owens at the meeting of the Board of Aldermen...
The First Annual Give Back Summer Event will be held on Friday, June 2 in Downtown Mountain View.
The event is a concert featuring opening acts Levi Moore, and Billy Randolph with Aaron Tippin headlining. Gates to open at 3:00 p.m. and the concert to begin at 5:45 p.m.
The event is sponsored...
How would it affect your life if twenty thousand tourists came to town? This is the question community leaders across the Ozarks gathered to consider last week.
On Thursday, OzSBI presented EPIC: An Ozarks Eclipse Experience to help community and business leaders prepare for the total eclipse...
Mark Twain National Forest (Forest) looks much better thanks again to Godi’s Excavating, LLC. The company successfully completed a debris cleanup contract that covered large sections of the Poplar Bluff and Eleven Point Ranger Districts. Many illegal dump sites occur across the Forest; but...
The Chaos Closet, a clothing, diaper, and supply resource for area foster families in Wests Plains, recently presented Ozarks Healthcare’s Women Center and OB Department with 12 brand new diaper bags filled with newborn necessities for foster parents.
Each bag included baby wash and lotion,...
The Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri recently held their 90th annual convention in St. Louis, MO, at the Frontenac Hilton Hotel. The organization has 63 clubs throughout the state with a total of 1,400 members. Two hundred members attended the convention. Mountain View Garden Club was...
The Ozark Spring, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Ozark Spring, NSDAR) Chapter Award Luncheon and meeting is Saturday, May 13 at 12:00 noon, at the American Legion Hall, 1401 Bill Virdon Blvd., West Plains, MO.
Linda Slater Collins, Ozark Springs, NSDAR is the daughter...