Kyle Troutman
Randy Crane: Making the best of ‘tipping over’
This devotional and directory is made possible by these businesses who encourage all to attend worship services. My wife and I stopped at a small town cafe for some breakfast one morning.
Cassville delivers 139 diplomas
Cassville graduate Fernando Alonso gives a rake to High School Principal Tyler Willis, one of many gag gifts the principal received at graduation on Sunday. Kyle Troutman/ktroutman@cassville-democrat.com
ROV diver faces challenges
The depth of Roaring River Spring Cave remains a mystery. Goodspeed Publishing’s “1888 History of Barry County” records the depth to be “fathomless,” but better-equipped explorers later attached more concrete figures to that fathom.
Revitalizing history
Down winding dirt roads between Jenkins and Cato, near the 150-year-old McKinney Cemetery and a stone’s toss from Rockhouse Creek, a piece of Barry County history is getting new life. At one point, Barry County had at least 115 rural one- or two-room school houses, one of which was the Hailey School House in Mineral Spring.
Kyle Troutman: Spotting storms in Barry County
The Cassville area received its first true taste of tornado season in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Just after midnight, storms that had been spinning off tornadoes in Oklahoma approached Missouri, leading to a tornado warning in McDonald County, and ultimately, the same for Barry.
Hat trick-ville
At 12-5-1 this season and 8-1-1 in its last 10 matches, the Cassville girls soccer team is seeing no shortage of success, and things coming in threes.
Dakoda Pettigrew: American Insights: The Two Worlds
On September 19, 1796, the president’s farewell address appeared in Philadelphia’s Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser. The address, written by George Washington with the aid of Alexander Hamilton, contained many important themes.
DNR to host public hearing in Barry Co re land-application of waste
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will host an in-person, public hearing in Barry County regarding proposed permits by the department for the land-application of industrial meat, poultry and other food-processing waste and human biosolids in Barry and McDonald Counties.
Jennie Lee Smith
Jennie Lee Smith, age 66 of Cassville, Missouri passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Circle of Life Hospice in Bentonville, Arkansas. She was born on November 20, 1957, in Sheridan, Wyoming, the daughter of Harold “Dean” and Sally (Erickson) Yeager.
Debby S. Shadday
Debby S. Shadday, age 72, of Rolla, Missouri passed away Friday, May 3, 2024 at Aurora Health and Rehab in Rolla, Missouri.
