In six days, Barry County voters who select a Republican ballot in the Primary Election will have their say in 10 contested races for local, state and national positions. While all the state and national winners on the GOP ballots will have Democrat opponents — including our state house and state senate districts — for the three contested races locally, Tuesday represents the culmination of a long and arduous campaign season with no opponents waiting in the wings.
Southwest Volleyball Coach Steve Voyak has announced volleyball practice at Southwest starts Aug. 12.
The temperature in the Old Senate Chamber reached a sweltering 90 degrees — but within Charles Sumner raged a fire hotter than any that could be accurately recorded. On May 19, 1856, the avowed abolitionist senator from Massachusetts rose to deliver a 112page speech on “The Crime Against Kansas.” As with Lincoln, the Kansas-Nebraska Act stirred a flame of defiance within Sumner.
The Cassville football program is set to honor players from the 1990s at the annual Alumni Night in September. Clay Weldy, Cassville football coach, said he is excited to recognize players from the 1995-1999 Wildcat football teams on Sept.
A Cassville graduate is making a major mark in the collegiate Future Business Leaders of America scene. Crowder College student Grant Preddy, of Cassville, is the National Champion in Finance, a title he won at the FBLA National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla., recently.
Exeter High School sophomore Zeanndrea (Zee) Brown was selected as the 2024 recipient of the Silver Leaf Benefit Club’s Sophomore Pilgrimage scholarship. Brown joined chosen high school sophomores from across the state in Jefferson City on the second Tuesday in April for a tour of government buildings and lunch with elected state officials.
The Sixth Annual Depot Exeter Auto Show will be Aug. 10 from 10 a.m.
Cassville football players meet at William Jewell College in Liberty last week ahead of the start of football camp.
Teresa “Suzanne” Cardin, 59, of Exeter, Mo., passed away Thursday, July 25, 2024, at her home. She was born August 3, 1964, in Guthrie, Oklah., the daughter of John and Leota (Anderson) Morrisett.
Jimmie Dale May, Sr., 73, of Exeter, Mo., passed away Monday, July 22, 2024, at Cox Monett Hospital in Monett, Mo.
