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An ordinance adding a new section to ordinances prohibiting offenses against public peace passed at the regular session of the West Plains City Council on March 20. Ordinance 4734 was presented for a second reading and ultimately passed. A new section titled "Disorderly Conduct" has been added to...
A West Plains woman suffered serious injuries in a crash at 7:50 a.m. on March 23 on Highway 63 five miles south of West Plains. Penny Manes, 57, was airlifted to a Springfield hospital after the vehicle in which she was a passenger struck a dog in the roadway. According to the Missouri State...
RC Holt and Raine McMinn of Mountain Grove, MO, are the parents of a baby girl, Sylver Faye Kay Holt. She was born March 15, 2023, at 4:48 a.m. at Ozarks Healthcare. She weighed 9 pounds 6 ounces and was 21 inches long. Her siblings are Xavier, 7, Ezra, 5, and Wynter, 3. Her grandparents are...
An emergency drill will be held at a Willow Springs facility the evening of Wednesday, April 5. Partners in the exercise will include Coastal Energy and multiple city departments, as well as numerous regional entities. The event is not open to the public.
Participating in the drill will be...
The 2023 Howell County Lincoln Day will be held on Friday, March 31st at the Historic Post Office located on East Main Street in West Plains. According to members of the Howell County Republican Committee, this year’s event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres and registration, followed by...
A two-vehicle collision took place on the morning of March 20 at the intersection of Fourth and Ferguson outside Willow Springs High School, confirms the Willow Springs Police Department. A 911 call reported the call at 7:50 a.m.
Tarah Davis, of Willow Springs, was traveling westbound and...
Willow Springs R-IV: four running for three seats
There are four contenders for the three available seats on the Willow Springs School Board. Incumbents Matt Hobson, Adam Webb, and Brent Colley have all filed for reelection. Newcomer Larry Huitt has also filed. The three candidates who receive...
Willow Springs Fire Department sent first responders to participate in Friday’s search for a drowning victim. WSFD was among many agencies in the surrounding counties who responded to Grovespring in Webster County to search for the missing young men who were swept off a low water crossing on...
Don Eddie Wheat, Operations Manager at Howell County PWSD #1, won the Dell Cornell Scholarship to attend the Missouri Rural Water District Association’s Annual Conference.
Statewide, there are two scholarships awarded to attend the conference, and each recipient must be nominated.
Wheat’s...
Downtown issues were the primary focus of the regular meeting of the Willow Springs Board of Aldermen Thursday. Two downtown business owners were on the agenda to voice concerns.
First, Christy Graves, co-owner of Vintage Floral and a founding board member of Main Street Willow Springs, LLC,...