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Ozarks Healthcare and the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO) will host a blood drive on Friday, June 18, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Willard Hunter Classroom in the Ozarks Healthcare Parkway Center at 1211 Porter Wagoner Blvd. in West Plains.
The drive is appropriately themed, “Make S’...
Neva Parrott, assistant librarian at the Garnett Library, recently was recognized for 50 years of employment at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) during an Employee Appreciation Picnic at the campus' amphitheater. Parrott was hired in 1970 as a librarian with a faculty rank of...
As one of the first babies born at Mercy St. Francis Hospital in 1957, Patty Orchard has always understood the importance of having high-quality health care close to home.
Now, she and her husband, Jerry, are contributing to that quality, with a gift of $10,000 toward the purchase of 3D...
The Hutton Valley Neighborhood Watch held their quarterly potluck dinner Tuesday, June 8 at the newly renovated Hutton Valley Schoolhouse. Over forty area citizens were in attendance. Guest speaker, Sheriff Brent Campbell, gave insight into the Sheriff's office strategic plan and the history of...
The City of Mountain View is aware of an apparent scam attempting to sell advertisements for the scorecards at the Municipal Golf Course. These solicitations are not from the City government.
“The city is not selling any ads that would be placed on the golf course score cards,” reads a...
“Sometimes I feel like God puts me in places He knows I need to be,” wrote Willow Spring Fire Chief Vance Farmer. His Facebook post was time-stamped 10:37 p.m. and revealed he was only then settling down to dinner because earlier in the evening he was busy with two back-to-back rescue events. ...
Tuesday Study Club met May 4 at Claudia Marvin’s delightful home for the last meeting before the ‘Spring Party’ that will end the meetings until the Fall. After doing the business of the club, Kathleen gave the program.
Strange, spiral bee combs look like fantastical crystal palaces. These bees...
Ozark National Scenic Riverways, in partnership with Missouri State Parks, the Ozark Riverways Foundation and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, will be offering free paddling activities on the upper Current River on Sundays this summer.
Paddling skills clinics will be conducted on June 13 and 27...
The new Splash Pad in West Plains' Butler Children's Park lasted less than a month after opening on May 12 of this year. A vertical feature designed to look like a clarinet and dump buckets of water became dislodged from its base, and the entire Splash Pad was shut down last week for repairs. The...
Area legislators including Representative David Evans of the 154th District, Senator Karla Eslinger of the 33rd District, Representative Hannah Kelly of the 141st District, and Representative Travis Smith of the 155th District attended the Southern Ozark Alliance for Rural Development (SOAR)...