Community News

During the week of Jan. 22-28, communities across the state of Missouri will honor the dedicated service of local boards of education during School Board Recognition Week.

Cassville graduate Ashley Coffey was admitted to Cornell College for the fall 2017 semester. Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, is a national liberal arts college with a distinctive One Course At A Time curriculum. The One Course schedule provides students the chance to dive into their studies, focus more intensely on the disciplines of their choice, and learn authentically with the unique freedom to shed the confines of the traditional classroom to study off-campus, pursue research, or accept an internship-all without missing out on other classes.. ...

The following students from Cassville made the Crowder College Dean's List for the fall semester: Melissa Arnold, Nicole Beebe, Lilly Bickford, Jakob Bredeson, Kristen Cox, Kallie Dickson, Pauline Dodson, Juanita Dotson, Kiah-Grace Eden, Davyn Eggleston, Henry Essley, Veronica Gemmecke, Jharry Ann Gumabon, Andrew Hare, Anthony Harris, Bailey Hendrix, Paige High, Jasmine Hopper, Kathleen Hurst, Chase Jackson, Ashley Kaiser, Gabriel Kirk, Cameron Koehler, Tyler Martin, Jacqueline McIntire, Stephen Nunley, Kristy Paul, Sara Paul, Valeria Perez, Masen Rapien, Matthew Ritchie, Abby Rose, Coleta Rose, Skyler Scates, Hannah Scott, Derek Shore, Brian Smith, Tyler Speakman, Sarah Stearns, Madison Strahan, Sonya Swope, Dustyn Videmschek and Daniel Wilkinson.. ...

On Jan. 6, seventh-and eighth-grade Cassville Middle School Band students auditioned and were selected to participate in the Southwest Missouri Junior High District Honor Band.

Cassville Intermediate School students that mastered their math facts were celebrated with a math assembly and game of dodgeball last week.

Because character always counts, Cassville Intermediate School announced its character winning students for the month of December.

Students at Cassville Middle School (CMS) spent the last school day of 2016 raising funds that were donated to Woodmore Elementary School in Chattanooga, Tenn., after a school bus traveling from the school flipped over and collided into a tree. The accident resulted in six fatalities, dozens of injuries and many devastated families...

The Wheaton school district announced its December Students of the Month.

Jacie Hudson, a first-grader at Cassville Elementary School, received second place in her age group in the 2016 PBS KIDS Writers Contest.