After last week’s recalling installation of light poles on a new football field for the CHS Wildcats, and my visit to the Barry County Museum, there were bells ringing regarding another method once used before all of today’s earth-moving equipment arrived on the scene...

Today’s Cassville High School Wildcat boosters might think they have a rough time of it with their assignments of frying burgers, popping corn, filling cups of various drinks and the like, but these duties are really nothing to compared with some of the chores associated with the early days of the organization...

School districts generally try to stay out of politics, but that has never stopped politics from finding its way into schools. Such was the case this week for the two largest school districts in Barry County — Monett and Cassville. At Monett, word began spreading of a book being deemed unfit for assigned reading. Sure enough, “Dear Martin” had been axed from the freshman English I assignment list, replaced with the ever-maligned “To Kill A Mockingbird.”...

Back in the 1970s, days that I choose to title “Cassville’s Industrial Revolution,” staffing the Chamber of Commerce wasn’t such a problem, since when one of the people put on the payroll had a partner that immediately became a member of the staff. For a number of years, Bill and Virginia Ward and Lige and Ella Frost had their turns behind the Chamber office desks...