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ROV-ing to exploration: Diver to use remote vehicles in Roaring River spring
Diver Steve Haggitt displays the three ROVs and accessories he and three team members will use for an April 24-26 exploration of Roaring River Spring Cave.
Cassville Pantry receives Urgent Need Grant from Ozarks Food Harvest
Cassville Pantry recently received an Urgent Need Grant thanks to Ozarks Food Harvest’s $1 million investment in agency infrastructure in southwest Missouri. The grant funding has allowed us to purchase two large capacity chest freezers, which will help sustain our food distributions and feed families in Barry County.
Speaker encourages students to drive safe
Kurt Lawson, a lawyer from Springfield, spoke to Cassville High School students on April 10 about the dangers of reckless and impaired driving.
Cassville High School’s multimedia students take on tourism challenge
In an effort to boost local tourism beyond the already popular Roaring River State Park, Cassville High School’s Multimedia students recently took on a partnership with Cassville Area Chamber of Commerce.
Cassville alumna inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Samantha Sparkman, of Cassville, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society.
Laugh away the day at new SKITS play ‘Chickenheart’
Come for the laughs, stay for the action, the romance, and alien abduction, and… nuns? A combination like no other will take the stage in Shell Knob April 19-21 with Shell Knob in the Spotlight (SKITS) putting on “Chickenheart.” The production’s wacky cast of characters, including (but not limited to) six of the craziest nuns anyone has ever met; a terribly timid tailor; and a half-man, half-frog, half-nun — or is that too many halves? Regardless, there is a 150% chance of surprises, laughs and good times all around. “Chickenheart” follows the flight of the ravishingly lovely Lady Emma Chalfont as she flees the fiendish advances of the terribly evil Sir Cutbert Cleaver.
News Briefs, April 17
A fundraiser will be held at BBQ Station in Cassville on April 18 from 4-8 p.m. Barry County probation and parole officers will be working at the restaurant.
Special shades for a stellar sight
Holly Cisco, left, and Alisha Wayland kept their eclipse glasses pressed tight as they watched the celestial event on Monday afternoon from Wildcat Stadium. At its peak, Monday’s solar eclipse covered 97.6% of the sun in Cassville.
LeCompte unseats incumbent Phillips for Cassville City Council
Change was made to the Cassville City Council this week, as challenger Zane LeCompte unseated incumbent Mike Phillips in the North Ward Alderman seat.
Free sludge appeals to some local landowners
A handful of Barry and Newton County landowners traveled to Jefferson City to testify in support of the land application of Denali Water Solutions’ industrial-processing sludge at a Missouri Senate hearing on March 26. Their testimony, along with that of Denali executive Rob Currey, was an attempt to convince senators to vote against proposed legislation that will more tightly regulate the storage and land-application of meat and other food-processing waste.
