August 2023
Through the years, Aug. 9
50 YEARS AGO: This enlargement of an advertising card used about 70 years ago wasn’t an unusual means back in the first days of the present Barry County Courthouse. A number of Cassville businesses used this method of expressing their pride in the new county office building.
Jeff Tanksley: Rest in God’s love
God’s love expels all fear. Going through storms isn’t easy, but it is something that all of us have experienced or will experience.
Janet Mills: Detour ahead
Embracing life’s unforeseen journey is similar to dealing with the twisted knot you feel in your stomach when encountering the detour ahead sign on the road. Life is quite like a rollercoaster ride, filled with exhilarating ups, challenging downs, and flavored with the surprise of delays and turns in the road.
TroutMom Says: You can’t be brave if you aren’t afraid
I love the ocean. Correction, I love to look at the ocean.
Verona woman injured in Hwy. 39 wreck
ktroutman@cassville-democrat.com A Verona woman was injured and the driver of another vehicle arrested following a wreck at 3:35 p.m. on Highway 39, one mile north of Shell Knob.
Library hosts laser tag
The Cassville Branch Library hosted Bill’s Xtreme Video Game Kart on July 28, with the company also setting up blinds in the adjacent field for a game of laser tag. Event attendees played video games in the Kart for 90 minutes, then at dusk when it cooled, played 90 minutes of laser tag. The event is part of the Library’s summer reading challenge, “All Together Now.”
Year in Photos — Cassville baseball
Cassville’s Garrett Ewing attempts to catch a runner stealing during a contest against Monett last season in the district tournament.
Consistency imperative for special teams
When looking for special teams players, Cassville Football Coach Clay Weldy looks for one quality specifically — the ability to be consistent at a certain skillset. Each of Cassville’s incoming kickers, punters, long snappers and returners have different sets of skills needed, and Weldy is honing in on who will start in Week 1.
Cassville Pythagoras Lodge celebraing sesquicentennial
Pythagoras Lodge No. 383 will celebrate its sesquicentennial on Saturday, a milestone for the organization that restarted in Cassville after the Civil War.
Sales tax revenues sag in July
For the second month in a row, only the second time this year, sales tax receipts for Barry County in July slipped below totals received by its cities and county governments. Totals nonetheless held very close to a year ago as the bloom of the pandemic surge fades with normal shopping habits and travel resuming.
