Cassville
Conservation employee named Friend of Education
During the Cassville Community Teachers (CCTA) Celebration, Cassville schools presented the Friend of Education Award to Jordan Poe of the Missouri Department of Conservation.
News Briefs, May 28
The Cassville City-Wide Clean-Up will be held the week of June 9-13; The Cassville Farmers Market is open weekly on Saturdays on the Barry County Courthouse Square, from 8 a.m. to noon.
Rainy Memorial Day weekend ahead
UPDATE AS OF 4:30 P.M. THURSDAY: The National Weather Service has increased the risk for severe weather on Friday evening (especially along and west of I-49) to a marginal to…
Terry Held: Parlez-Vous Cassville?
There’s a special kind of grace in being accepted someplace where, by all appearances, you don’t quite belong.
Sayonara school!
A myriad of costumed family and friends of Cassville students who get off the bus at the courthouse square were met with water guns and other spraying tools. The bunch doused windows of passing buses, then unloaded the bulk of the ammo on the group exiting on at the square.
Man charged with theft from Dollar General deposit
A Purdy man has been charged with felony stealing after allegedly taking more than $2,600 from a bank deposit at his place of employment.
Cassville man charged with Regal vehicle theft
A Cassville man has been arrested on felony charged after an alleged vehicle theft from the Regal parking lot on Thursday.
Donnie Spears: The sin of silence
“Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.”
Scoreboard, May 21
The Cassville 4x100 relay team has qualified to the Class 3 State Championship. The team of Mace Bredeson, Kyle Bailey, Kamden Beebe and Jacob Walker turned in a time of 43.82 to take 4th place at the Class 3, Sectional 3 on Saturday.
Lynn Hilburn: The story of land in early America and early Missouri
Over the next few weeks and months, I am going to endeavour to tell the history of Southwest Missouri and Barry County. I realize that Emory Melton and others have done an excellent job of laying out of the history and development of Barry County, but I would like to provide a summary what I think is interesting and important.
