Local
The Howell County Commission met on May 12 and 16.
Last week, the commission reviewed and considered three bids. On May 12, the bids for consideration were for two 2023 dump trucks, one with a 16-foot dump bed and one with a 14-foot dump bed. On May 16, they reviewed bids for sixty 15-inch by...
Hands were lifted as praise and worship music filled Munford Gymnasium at Willow Springs High School Saturday afternoon. Family and friends of BreAnna Lynn Lovan gathered to celebrate her life with tears and laughter along the way.
Bree was a 26-year-old second-grade teacher at Willow Springs...
The Missing In America Project (MIAP) in cooperation with the Craig-Hurtt Funeral Home & Cremation Care Center in Mountain Grove; Holman Howe Funeral Home in Lebanon; Texas County Coroner; and Missouri State Veterans Cemetery, Waynesville will hold a special inurnment ceremony honoring four...
Janet Crow’s campaign for the Howell County Collector’s seat has pivoted away from defending her position on the August Primary ballot. She has withdrawn as a Republican and announced a plan to run as an Independent in the general election in November.
The two Republican candidates for Howell...
At the Missouri Capitol, we have just finished spring session. As previously mentioned, the senate started slow out of the gate, and has continued to crawl along throughout the session until this week. Unfortunately, a very small group of senators placed personal politics ahead of the people’s...
Jan Howard is a native of West Plains, Missouri. She was a female star in Nashville when it was not popular for a woman to be in the country singing business. Most women were used a backup singers for men. Jan became a solo artist singing about heartaches as she knew about only too well....
Local author, Edwin Woolsey, is excited to announce the fifth book in his Chronicler series, "Broad New Horizons," a novelized account of his extended family's arrival in the New World's Dutch New Netherland prior to the thirteen English colonies of America.
The task the author originally...
We are entering the time of year when more people are bitten and otherwise injured by animals as a result of increased outdoor activities. One risk of being bitten by animals such as skunks, bats, and stray dogs and cats is that of developing rabies. Human rabies cases in the United States are...
Robert Arnett and Hailey Morse of West Plains, MO, are the parents of a baby boy, Archer Arnett, born April 12, 2022, at 2:25 a.m. at Ozarks Healthcare. He weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces and was 21 inches long. His grandparents are David and Teresa Collins and Jennifer Maddox of West Plains. ...
Area veterans and their dependents interested in using their military education benefits to earn a degree from Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) are invited to attend an informational session May 16-19 in Hass-Darr Hall Room 104.
No appointment is necessary. Veterans and dependents...