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The Mountain View Garden Club has chosen Garden Bed #37, belonging to Mr. J.L. Farmer, as the Community Garden, Bed of he Month for June. Farmer's garden bed is neat and well groomed and contains dill, squash, zucchini, peppers along with a variety of tomatoes. The Mountain View Garden Club is a...
Birthday Blessings is getting ready to do an items drive through their Gifting Hope Campaign in July.
Fane Young, a Birthday Blessings volunteer, finishes a birthday party bag for a foster teen living in a residential facility. The Missouri nonprofit supports nearly 225 foster kids in Howell,...
A Peace Valley man faces three felony charges of statutory sodomy for alleged inappropriate contact with a ten-year-old girl. Brenten Macias, 21, admitted to the contact in an interview with the Howell County Sheriff’s Office. He referred to incidents in 2020 when he would have been 17, and the...
All utility customers in Willow Springs experienced an outage in the early morning hours of June 30 prompted by a product recall that required an emergency repair.
The city made an announcement via Facebook at approximately 10:00 a.m. on June 28 and contacted this news outlet at 8:30 a.m.,...
Over 100 former Pirates and guests celebrated “Friends to See in ’23” at the annual Mountain View Alumni Association meeting on Saturday, July 1 at the First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall.
Attendees, dues and/or scholarship donations were received from:
Class of 1945: Moe Simpson; 1947:...
The Howell County Commission met on June 29, July 3, 6, and 10.
On July 3, the Commission was scheduled to approve a conflict-of-interest policy and to review and sign a Letter of Intent to Contribute for the Missouri Association of Counties.
On July 6, the commissioners signed a contract...
Fire membership dues increased, electric rates discussed, projects completed, and more were all part of lengthy discussions at the June 14 regular council meeting.
The city of Mountain View Rural Fire Membership Dues were increased from $40 annually to $80 with the passing of Bill 1369 as...
Colton and Molly Burnett of Alton, MO, are the parents of a baby boy, Walker Wade Burnett. He was born April 18, 2023, at 7:48 p.m. at Ozarks Healthcare. He weighed 8 pounds 5 ounces and was 22 inches long. His sibling is Libby, 2. His grandparents are Joby and Brenda Steele and Tim and Lisa...
A report from the office of the State Auditor has identified three concerns in Howell County. One such practice is a revival of concerns identified by that office in 2019, namely—the former County Collectors retaining as personal income certain taxes collected on behalf of West Plains and Willow...
A Willow Springs woman pleaded guilty to federal charges Thursday and admitted fraudulently applying for a $167,999 Payroll Protection Program loan during the coronavirus pandemic for a Poplar Bluff business that she did not run or own.
Maxine Michelle Burns, 44, pleaded guilty in U.S. District...