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“We can still fight this quarry, and I think we have a good chance of stopping it,” said Dale Henry, with the Eleven-Seventeen Watershed Association, a newly formed group that is challenging a proposed quarry near Mountain View. The mine property borders the Eleven Point River near where it...
Municipal elections will take place on April 5, 2022. Candidates interested in running for local office should file for candidacy between December 7 and December 28.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports that Missouri hunters harvested 12 black bears during the state’s inaugural bear-hunting season, which ran Oct. 18–27. More than 6,330 hunters applied for 400 permits for the season with the maximum total harvest for the season being 40 bears...
West Plains Tourism Coordinator Melissa Wharton received the Rising Star Award at the annual Governor's Conference on Tourism, held October 13-15 in Branson.
The award honors an individual who has worked for a tourism-related organization less than five years or who has transitioned to a new...
Caleb and Christa Bair of Thayer, MO, are the parents of a baby girl, Mirabella Dee Bair, born September 16, at 4:16 p.m. at Ozarks Healthcare. She weighed 6 pounds 2 ounces and was 20 inches long. Her grandparents are Roy and Marie Rudd and Charlie Wilson of Alton, MO, and Tony and Dee Bair and...
Did you know? November is homeless awareness month! The Glass Sword Cinema in West Plains will be sponsoring the 22nd Annual Can Film Festival on November 1, at 7:00 p.m. Price of admission is 2 cans of unexpired food. All proceeds go to the Martha Vance Samaritan Outreach Center, a homeless...
On October 28 at 5:30 p.m., Representatives Ron Copeland and Bennie Cook will host a Regional Broadband Meeting at Echo Bluff State Park Lodge. Anyone interested in rural broadband access is welcome to attend.
This meeting will give those in attendance more information about the benefits of...
Norfork Lake, Lake Norfork Marina, Henderson, AR
October 16, 2021
Winners:
Big Bass: 4.87 LBS.
Number of Boats in Tournament: 212
Number of Boats Weighing Fish: 65
Number of Fish Weighed: 216
Total Weight of Fish Weighed: 473 LBS
Total Money Raised for Cystic Fibrosis from 2021...
The Willow Springs Tuesday Study Club met at Club 60 in Mountain Grove on October 5, 2021 to begin their 96th season. Party hostesses were Pauline Cape, Kathleen Carel, Mary Knott and Claudia Marvin, who decorated Club 60's meeting room with an abundance of Fall decorations provided by Claudia...
The Willow Springs Community Foundation is pleased to announce Dean Aye as their new Executive Director. Aye is a long-term resident of Willow Springs with a history of community engagement. “I’m looking forward to finding new ways and new opportunities to improve our community.”, said Aye.
The...