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Just like most regions in the country, many folks in the Ozarks historically enjoyed celebrating Halloween. Celebrations were typically expressed in the form of either pranks or parties.
As many of you know, I lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex for a little over 30 years, and I did take the daily newspaper, Fort Worth Star Telegram. Once a week, they had a section in the paper for their letter writers called “Cheers and Jeers.
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Melvin Lee Haynes, 88, of Wheaton, Mo. passed away Thursday, October 17, 2024, at his home.
Spooky sights and wild frights abound this Halloween season, and nowhere moreso than in Shell Knob. Shell Knob in the Spotlight (SKITS) will put on its fall play, 'Scary, Scary Night,' on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Two people were injured Oct. 16 in a wreck at 8:05 p.m.
His House Foundation, located at 25832 State Hwy. YY in Shell Knob, will host an Open House on Saturday from 10 a.m.
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This year’s Barry County Brawl is brought to you by Security Bank of Southwest Missouri. Brawling with your finances? Win like the Wildcats with Security Bank!
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Cassville senior Homecoming King and Queen candidates Bodee Rose and Lorelei Vanderhoef wave to spectators of the Homecoming parade Friday.
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Karen Waltrip, of Monett, turned 40 years old in February, but she was just 37 years old when her battle with breast cancer began. Breast cancer diagnoses have decline by 0.3 percent per 100,000 women over the age of 20 between 1999 and 2018, according to an statistical analysis by the U.S.
Craig Family Farms, LLC, and the environmental groups Stop Land Use Damaging our Ground and Environment (S.L.U.D.G.E.), LLC, and Citizens of Randolph County Against Pollution (CRAP), LLC, served formal notice to six organizations last week of their intent to file a lawsuit in federal court to stop the land-application of meat and food-processing waste and biosolids to Missouri farmland. Targeted as prospective defendants are the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and waste-management companies, Bubs, Inc.; Denali Water Solutions, LLC (Denali); HydroAg Environmental, LLC; Reed Environmental, LLC; and Synagro Technologies, Inc., (Synagro).