Contest results:
G&W Chili Cook-Off
First Place: Sharleena Garlitz
Second Place: Pam Price
Third Place: Debbie Hook
Contest results:
G&W Chili Cook-Off
First Place: Sharleena Garlitz
Second Place: Pam Price
Third Place: Debbie Hook
Fourth Place: Anna Roberts
Quilt Contest
sponsored by the Willow Springs Church of Christ Quilt Ladies
Traditional
First Place - Della Crisp
Second...
After a recent order in Howell County Courts declaring West Plains’ Larry Lindeman indigent, the public defender’s office is pushing back. Seven months into the first-degree murder case Lindeman, the defendant has yet to secure a defense attorney.
Last week, the Honorable Robert Craig...

Howell County Sherriff’s deputies attempting to arrest a Willow Springs man on warrants called in the SWAT team for a Sunday night stand-off that ended in a peaceful arrest.
Dayton Terrill-Austin, 29, had active arrest warrants for possession and absconding from parole. The absconder...

Twenty-seven years after the original mural was completed, Michael McClure returned to recreate his work for future generations. In 1999, McClure and a group of community sponsors undertook a project to create a 28-by-10-foot mural of Willow Springs. The original mural featured historical figures...
Howell County News publisher and co-owner Amanda Mendez has been named the inaugural Journalist of the Year by the Missouri Press Association. In a September 27 phone interview, Mendez reflected, “I didn’t choose journalism. Instead, journalism chose me.” Prior to July of 2019 Mendez was a working-...
A Mountain View man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms charges last week. Gregory Porter, 57, was charged in a four-count indictment that was returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Mo., on September 8 That indictment was unsealed and...

Jennifer Martin, of Willow Springs, was recognized by Governor Kehoe last week for saving a child from a freezing pond. Martin describes it as “not an act of heroism, but an act of a human being.”
On February 20th, 2025, Martin was watching her son from her window overlooking a large...

Car enthusiasts took over downtown Willow Springs Saturday for the Fourth Annual Beartown Teardown, the crowning event of the summer for Willow Springs Charitable Events.
This year’s People's Choice Award for this year is Bob Berry’s red 1946 Studebaker pickup. “Best of” awards went to...
The city clerk in Mountain View, Terry Thornton, officially resigned as of September 3. Not much has been discussed on Thornton leaving her position other than no one has been officially appointed to take her position as of the publication date.
The Tuesday, Sept. 8 meeting of the board of...





