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A four-year-old child was the subject of a search in Peace Valley. The parents woke from a nap and could not locate the child who had been missing for an unknown amount of time, Sheriff Brent Campbell told Howell County News.
On Jan. 21, Deputy Melanie Roam received the report from dispatch at...
Anthony Phillips, 33, of Peace Valley, fled from deputies as he was being escorted to a patrol car. On Jan. 20, Corporal Nicholas Bruno and Deputy John Thomas of the Howell County Sheriff’s Department arrived at Phillip’s residence on CR 3850 to pick him up on three active warrants, according to...
A heavy blanket of snow caused a power outage to more than half of the service area of Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative (HOEC) last week. Overnight on Jan. 24, snow fell in some places in Howell County ten inches deep. The heavy, wet snowfall wreaked havoc on electrical lines and tree limbs. On...
An American flag waving in the wind, the insignia of a Navy group referred to as ‘The Seabees,’ and a kneeling veteran are the focus of Willow’s newest downtown mural.
This 8’x36’ vinyl-wrapped aluminum mural on the side of Coulter’s Heating and Cooling building in Willow Springs “has received...
A Poplar Bluff man faces sixteen felony charges after breaking in to Anderson Services in Mountain View and stealing more than a dozen firearms. Though there were three suspects captured on surveillance footage, Aijalon Marshall, 18, is so far the only one facing formal charges. Police were able...
Ferguson Drug is the latest Walgreens branch to announce a store closure. This fixture of downtown Willow Springs will permanently close on Feb. 21, confirms a statement from Walgreens.
Thus closes a chapter that has been a part of Willow Springs for one hundred seventeen years.
Originally...
Dorothy Morrell was born in Russia in 1888, Dorothy immigrated with her family to Canada in 1998 and settled in Winnipeg. She came to the United States in 1912 and for several years lived near Helena, Montana. She learned to ride working as a mounted mail carrier for the Blackfeet Indians.
She...
A box of tattered journals, spiral notebooks, and old ledgers would be the author's inspiration for a book highlighting long-time Birch Tree resident Ella Mae Brown.
Ella Mae and D.A. Brown spent most of their lives, scratching out a living on a small farm in Birch Tree, MO. But Ella Mae had a...
Zhachory Arensdorf and Isabella Russell of Gainesville, Mo., are the parents of a baby boy, Lincoln Scott Arensdorf. He was born Jan. 10, 2023, at 5:22 p.m. at Ozarks Healthcare. He weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces and was 20 inches long. His sibling is Braxton, 1. His grandparents are Chuck and Heather...
At the January 7 Ozark Spring, National Association Daughters of the American Revolution (Ozark Spring, NSDAR) meeting, 15-year member, Bernice “Marie” Sawyer Hensley who passed away October 20, 2022 was honored for her service and commitment to DAR and the West Plains community. Hensley was born...