Opinion
Terry Held: Poetry in the heart of Cassville
April is National Poetry Month — a time set aside each year to celebrate the written and spoken word in all its richness.
Kyle Troutman: A one-of-a-kind Election Day
Here at the Cassville Democrat, I cover at least two, if not three, elections per year — none produced results as interesting as Barry County’s April 8 General Municipal Election.
Sheila Harris: Water matters
There’s secrecy afoot in the Missouri legislature. Proposed Missouri Senate Bill 157 and House Bill 545 seek to conceal from the public the identities of “Major Water Users” in Missouri, as well as the amount of water they use, where they’re drawing it from and where the water will be distributed.
Dakoda Pettigrew: American Insights — Words worth remembering from Tessie’s fate and ours
The morning was sunny and clear in a fictional New England village “with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day.”
Shawn Courtney: ‘It is finished’
In John 19:28-30, we find Jesus upon the cross, bloody, exhausted, disconnected from his father, rejected by his friends, and dying.
Kyle Troutman: Bring on the brick
When I am out and about, whether covering events or grocery shopping, the most common question I get is, “What’s going on this week?” — until recently.
Jeremiah Buntin: Monumental history in the Ozarks
Traveling west of Cassville on Highway 86 next to the power substation lies a monument that visitors often mistake for a gravestone and will inquire, “Who’s buried over there?”
Janet Mills: Seniors shaken by social insecurity
“What is going to become of me?” This question posed over and over again in conversations with senior adults who have expressed their fears and concerns during recent visits to the food pantry.
Kyle Troutman: A new era ‘in there’
Anew era of leadership is coming to the city of Cassville.
