November 2024

Kyle Troutman: Feeling frisson

November 5, 2024

On March 1, 2010, at 3:22 p.m., I used my iPhone to record a song that to this day brings an intense frisson. Following a volunteer’s playing of “Amazing Grace” on bagpipes — in a light drizzle and with a backdrop of at least a dozen U.S.

6 lead changes end with East Newton on top

November 5, 2024

It took six lead changes to determine the winner of Friday’s Class 3, District 6 quarterfinal barnburner, and a Cassville team seeking to avenge a regular-season loss suffered a second consecutive to the patriots, 39-28.

Laura L. Zinke

November 5, 2024

Laura L. Zinke, 35, of Stella, Missouri passed away Saturday, October 26, 2024 at her home.

Joyce Eileen Askins

November 5, 2024

Joyce Eileen Askins, 74, of Shell Knob, Mo. passed away Saturday, October 26, 2024, at her home.

Ethel Mae Sandberg

November 5, 2024

Ethel Mae Sandberg, 74, of Cassville, Mo. passed away on October 26, 2024, while surrounded by her loving family.

Through the Years, Nov. 6

November 5, 2024

30 YEARS AGO: COURTHOUSE ELEVATOR OPENING — Steve Holloway of Cassville, an employee of Branco Co. of Neosho and courthouse custodian Charley Baker stand in the basement area and show the depth of an elevator opening cut in the first story floor.

Dakoda Pettigrew: Ask Not

November 5, 2024

A bitter snowstorm dropped six inches of snow on America’s capital city the day before Inauguration Day. “Many of the pre-inaugural social affairs had to be canceled,” The New York Times wrote on Friday, January 20, 1961, adding that the snowfall had “snarled traffic, disrupted air and highway travel and chilled thousands of visiting Democrats.”

Michelle Hilburn: What makes a library meaningful?

November 5, 2024

In Starfish by Lisa Fipps, one of my favorite young adult novels, Ellie, the main character, captures how meaningful a librarian’s presence can be: “[The librarian is] the first person to smile at me today./ The first to make me feel wanted./ Understood./I blink back tears./ It’s unknown how many students’ lives/librarians have saved/by welcoming loners at lunch.”

FBLA teaches Halloween safety

November 5, 2024

Makaiden Bolles, with the Cassville High School FBLA, asks an elementary student a question about Halloween safety during a presentation made by about a dozen high schoolers for primary student on the topic on Oct. 31.

November 5, 2024

City officials discuss fence dispute between neighbors The Purdy City Council received good news on its lead pipe inventory during its October board meeting. Kevin Cook, public works foreman, reported the city’s review of water pipes in its limits had been finished ahead of the schedule set by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

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