The depth of Roaring River Spring Cave remains a mystery. Goodspeed Publishing’s “1888 History of Barry County” records the depth to be “fathomless,” but better-equipped explorers later attached more concrete figures to that fathom.
Down winding dirt roads between Jenkins and Cato, near the 150-year-old McKinney Cemetery and a stone’s toss from Rockhouse Creek, a piece of Barry County history is getting new life. At one point, Barry County had at least 115 rural one- or two-room school houses, one of which was the Hailey School House in Mineral Spring.
The Cassville area received its first true taste of tornado season in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Just after midnight, storms that had been spinning off tornadoes in Oklahoma approached Missouri, leading to a tornado warning in McDonald County, and ultimately, the same for Barry.
At 12-5-1 this season and 8-1-1 in its last 10 matches, the Cassville girls soccer team is seeing no shortage of success, and things coming in threes.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will host an in-person, public hearing in Barry County regarding proposed permits by the department for the land-application of industrial meat, poultry and other food-processing waste and human biosolids in Barry and McDonald Counties.
On September 19, 1796, the president’s farewell address appeared in Philadelphia’s Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser. The address, written by George Washington with the aid of Alexander Hamilton, contained many important themes.
40 YEARS AGO: The landmark Union Church at Seligman will celebrate its 100th birthday May 27 with an open house and a special centennial program.
Jennie Lee Smith, age 66 of Cassville, Missouri passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Circle of Life Hospice in Bentonville, Arkansas. She was born on November 20, 1957, in Sheridan, Wyoming, the daughter of Harold “Dean” and Sally (Erickson) Yeager.
Debby S. Shadday, age 72, of Rolla, Missouri passed away Friday, May 3, 2024 at Aurora Health and Rehab in Rolla, Missouri.
Stewards of the Dr. Russell Robinson Music Education Scholarship have announced Vincent Chadwick is the 2024 recipient.
