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Cassville native competes at Formula SAE
Each year, the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) challenges students to create small, formula-style cars and bring them to their competition to be tested, judged and raced. This year, teams took their creations to Brooklyn, Michigan, and competed at the Michigan International Speedway from May 16-20.
Through the Years, July 12
30 YEARS AGO: This finale of the Shell Knob Chamber of Commerce fireworks display over Table Rock Lake Sunday evening lit the whole area. The Central Crossing Bridge is at the lower portion of the photo. Lights on the water are either from boat docks or boats that were in the area carrying spectators. The fantastic display, well executed, drew horn blowing approval from the vessels and shouts of applause from watchers on shore. While boat numbers were thought to be down this year, observers said spectator numbers completely choked traffic in the area for about 45 minutes after the display. Highway Patrol and Barry County sheriff’s department officers were at intersections for control purposes.
News briefs, July 12
The Barry County Genealogical and Historical Society will meet Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Bayless-Salyer House, located at 9th and Townsend streets in Cassville.
Corinth lights sky at God and Country Family Night
Corinth Baptist Church near Cassville hosted its God and Country Family Night on Friday, with food, games and fireworks to cap the evening.
Trout Tales, July 5
I was track-side for the annual Barry County Truck and Tractor Pull on Saturday night. I saw a ton of local folks showing off their rides, like siblings Saige and Otto Miller, of Seligman, and Cassville’s own Brian Kirk. My favorite moment of the pull though actually happened in a trailer behind the track. Someone brought a fancy truck with the body on hydraulics. When it was lifted up at first, I though the truck fell of of something. Then I saw the guy hop in a seat and I thought, oh no he’s working on it somehow. Wrong again.
Former wrestling coach’s charges dropped
Three charges against a former Cassville wrestling coach have been dropped by the court, citing insufficient probable cause to move forward with the case. Benjamin Glidewell, 42, of Cassville, was arrested at about midnight on April 28, charged with two counts of domestic abuse and one count of child abuse.
Year in Photos — Cassville volleyball
Cassville’s Emma Pryor serves up a ball during a home contest against Hillcrest last fall.
Kyle Troutman: Soaking up summer
When I was a kid, I always felt time was crawling. I remember walking up the steps of Little Rock Central High School my freshman year thinking the four years I would spend there would be a lifetime.
Hundreds attend Independence Fest in Shell Knob
Fans were on their feet for Josh Davison and the One Night Stand, the first of three bands at Shell Knob’s Independence Fest on Saturday, which drew hundreds to the park at Needles Eye Road.
Alice Allene (Rateliff) Leverich
Alice Allene (Rateliff) Leverich, 79, passed away on June 25, 2023. She was born on November 4, 1943, in Hope, Ark., the daughter of Alonzo and Lois Jean (Smith) Rateliff.
