Kyle Troutman
Cubs cap 2025 with strong showing
Coming into the 2025-2026 basketball season, Monett had zero starters returning and just two players that had played meaningful varsity minutes.
Lady Cubs bear down on 2026
Entering the new year with an 8-1 record, the Monett girls basketball team is not content to rest on its laurels.
Home of the Chiefs
It was Sunday January, 4 1998, a day I’ll never forget. I was three days shy of my 17th birthday but I received the greatest gift a boy that was a diehard Kansas City Chiefs fan could imagine.
WIC services available at Barry County Health Department
The Barry County Health Department offers WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) services to clients that qualify. The WIC program is a supplemental nutritional program for women, children, and infants. Eligibility includes pregnant women, women breastfeeding their infant up to the infant’s first birthday, and postpartum women up to 6 months. It also covers infants up to their 1st birthday and children through the age of 5 years. You must live in Missouri and the household income can be no more than 185% of the federal poverty income guidelines.
A Godly resolution: Make it a priority to be like Jesus Christ
“A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.” Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758).
Monett Missouri Stake hosts Christmas Concert
The Monett Missouri Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints annual Christmas Concert was held at the Monett Stake Center on Dec. 14, 2025. More than 600 people were in attendance.
News Briefs, January
SWMO Game Feed will host the inaugural Protect the Fawn and Turkey Predator Derby Jan. 23 starting at 6 p.m. at the VFW Post No. 4207 Tom Wolfe Memorial, located at 5400 Hwy. 60 in Monett.
McDowell Gold Jubilee keeps music kickin’
You could hear the music seeping through the doorway as you approached on the barely lit gravel driveway.
Fire destroys home near Wheaton
A home near Wheaton was a total loss following a fire on Jan. 5, with one resident of the home suffering injuries.
Former resident’s passing leaves questions
Thirty-year-old Springfield resident, Britney Carlo Shurtz — a former Purdy area resident and a 2005 graduate of Purdy High School — spent Christmas of 2017 in the hospital, recuperating from emergency surgery two days before.
