August 2023
Year in Photos — Cassville boys golf
Cassville’s Cole Watts tees off during play in the Cassville Invitational last season.
Storm clean-up continues
Josh Corn, with Treesout Express, launches a log of soft maple from the roof of the home of Jason and Katesha Johnston on North Spring Street in Cassville on Friday.
Wheaton Historical Society meets
The Wheaton Historical Society held a meeting on Aug. 7, where new officers were elected and plans were made to man the pop stand, as in years before, at the Wheaton Fire Department’s annual barbecue, which is Saturday.
Through the Years, Aug. 23
30 YEARS AGO: SOLVING PROBLEM OF HEAT — A pair of Exeter youngsters were about to solve the heat problem late Sunday afternoon as this photo was taken. The youths, Cosmas Trotter and Greg Parks were taking a plunge into Flat Creek from the Jefferson bridge on Route Y. The plunge meant about a 20 foot drop from the rail of the bridge into cooling waters.
Jeff Fugitt: We are God’s handiwork
We read in Ephesians 2:10 that, “We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Some translations say, we are God’s “workmanship.” Others even use the word “masterpiece.” That is an amazing thought.
Kim Healey: Small town values
KIM HEALEY I grew up in Seligman with my two sisters as a child. Growing up, we were taught to respect and love one another.
Lisa Roark: Physician, heal thyself
The year 2019 was a whirlwind for me. it was not the good kind of storm, where you cuddle up by the fire with a cup of hot tea and a good book; 2019 was a year that forever changed me and culminated with the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) on my 39th birthday.
Fiction contest deadline approaching
The deadline for the Mid South Writers Fiction Contest is rapidly approaching. Any unpublished or self-published writer in Barry County 18 years of age or older is eligible to enter, and entries are due by Sept.
Coopers celebrate 50 years
Les and Jan Cooper, of Cassville, are celebrating 50 years of not strangling one another on Aug. 25. The Coopers’ granddaughter, Janessa Sullivan, said, “They have laughed, cried, had their arguments, but they always got through it together.
