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The Wheaton Historical Society held a meeting on Aug. 7, where new officers were elected and plans were made to man the pop stand, as in years before, at the Wheaton Fire Department’s annual barbecue, which is Saturday.

The Wheaton High School Class of 1973 invites family, friends, former classmates and neighbors to stop in the shade by Railroad Depot Museum, located at 311 Main St., during 65th Annual Wheaton BBQ on Saturday. Plans are flexible and will be determined by those there. The group aims to to be there from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, people may contact Ron Renkoski at 608-242-7321.

The SKITS community theater group has announced auditions for the fall play “Trouble-In-Tumbleweed” on Saturday at the Central Crossing Senior Center in Shell Knob at 10 a.m. This zany presentation is set in the wild west Arizona Territory in the 1880s in the dusty town of Tumbleweed.

Rides, food, vendors, live entertainment and duck race are just a few of the smorgasbord of activities set to entertain thousands of people at the Wheaton City Park on Saturday.

An Iowa woman serious seriously injured and was arrested following a wreck at 2:45 p.m. Thursday on Highway 39, five miles north of Shell Knob.

The deadline for the Mid South Writers Fiction Contest is rapidly approaching. Any unpublished or self-published writer in Barry County 18 years of age or older is eligible to enter, and entries are due by Sept.