March 2023
State’s First Lady visits JAG
Six Cassville JAG officer were invited to sit and talk with Missouri First Lady Jill Parson, right on Tuesday morning.
Pet of the Week
Aaqua is a beautiful and calm 5-year-old retriever mix. She is very mellow. She loves being around people and cuddling.
Chili Feast for Camp Barnabas set
The Franz family will perform at Golden Baptist Church in Golden on Saturday from 5-7 p.m.
OATS Transit Southwest Region receives new buses
OATS Transit’s Southwest Region has received three new ADA accessible minibuses thanks to federal grant funds awarded through the Ozark Transportation Organization (OTO). The new buses were put into service at the end of February within the OTO area, which includes several southwest Missouri communities.
New assistant principal hired
Caleb Wheeler has always called Southwest Missouri home, but next year, he will be joining the leadership team at Cassville as the new assistant elementary principal. During the February Board of Education meeting, the Cassville School Board hired Wheeler to serve as the assistant principal at Eunice Thomas Elementary and Cassville Intermediate School beginning July 1.
Donnie Spears: The effects of Jesus in all things
Revelation 1:8: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” On March the 5th, I brought a message on effects. Everything in life causes some kind of an effect either to us or around us, some are lasting effects and some are just for a moment.
Trout Tales
I’ve survived my 10th Opening Day! It was great to see all my friends, like Scott Hettinger and Joel Topham and even Lt. Governor Mike Kehoe. Thousands of my brothers did not make it, but their sacrifice is not in vain — it’s in butter and oil!
Kyle Troutman: Balancing success, dissatisfaction
Defeat does not define you; your response does. This phrase consumed my thoughts as I was driving home after the MSHSAA State Wrestling Championships a couple of weeks ago.
Lisa Roark: Physician, heal yourself
March of 2020 was a month that changed many people’s lives forever. It was the dreaded beginning of COVID.
H. Lynn Hilburn: Placing animal processing effluent on farmland
In addition to having a house in the city, my wife and I have recently purchased some acreage southeast of Cassville that is cleared and produces a lot of hay when we want to put up hay bales, or we can lease it out to someone who is raising cattle.
