Cassville

Cassville teachers celebrate year’s end with games, awards
Samatha Cooper presents the Best New Teacher award to Rebecca Beagle. The awards celebrates excellence in education and recognizes teachers who have made a strong and positive impact during their first year in the district.

Rain can’t stop shine of Field Day at Cassville
Calvin Artherton weaves his way through an obstacle course at Field Day last week, which went on outside despite some chillier-than-normal temperatures and occasional rainfall. Kyle Troutman/[email protected]
News Briefs, May 13
The Land Application and Feedstock Composting Master General Permits Public Meeting will be on May 19 at 1 p.m. in Jefferson City.

Publisher’s View — Kyle Troutman: Letting the shutter fly
In the month of May, my camera goes into overdrive.

Staff View — Sheila Harris: Let’s cry foul — Our nest is in danger
My recent columns about the land-application of meat-processing sludge peeved our Barry County commissioners.

Through the Years, May 13
50 YEARS AGO: PIG KILLING BEAR DESTROYED — Killing pigs of a Barry County farmer in the Owens Bend country proved the undoing of a 300-pound black bear whose hide is displayed here by Conservation Commission Agents Charles Marrs, left, and Ron Glover, right.

District opponents determined
District baseball tournaments will be underway this week, with three of the five local teams’ brackets all set.

Artherton heads to state golf
Hosting the Class 3, District 3 Tournament on its home course on Thursday gave Cassville’s boys golf team a familiar setting, but Coach Clayton Bagby said the Wildcats could never fully settle into a rhythm.

Blankenship signs to NEO for softball
A member of the Cassville softball team that helped the squad make history multiple times in her career is extending that career beyond high school.
Scoreboard, May 13
Two Cassville boys track and field athletes have advanced to the Class 3, Sectional 3 Meet in Buffalo on Saturday. Corbin Rhoads and Logan Parsons will both represent the Wildcats in the pole vault after placing 3rd and 4th in the Class 3, District 6 competition in Lamar. Full results from districts include:




