Opinion

EJ Adams: Will you be planting this fall?

August 21, 2024

Fall can be a great time for planting potted perennials. Nurseries may have some great deals on them as the growing season winds down, and fall is a good time to get a new plant established before the cold of winter arrives.

Kyle Troutman: This election had everything

August 13, 2024

I’ve been telling saying it for months at this point — I could write a book about the sheriff race in the Republican Primary Election. I feel like Bill Hader’s Saturday Night Live character, Stefon.

Michelle Hilburn: Librarians are on the front lines of literacy

August 13, 2024

The school year is quickly approaching, which means children are enjoying their last days of summertime and parents are preparing to send them back to school. As a school librarian, this is a very busy time of year, and I have already returned to work.

Jeff Fugitt: Find the beauty all around you

August 13, 2024

This devotional and directory is made possible by these businesses who encourage all to attend worship services. I heard some scientists on the radio this week discussing how even animals have an appreciation for beauty.

Kyle Troutman: Why not you?

August 6, 2024

It’s hard being the only sports fan in my household. As the summer Olympics in Paris have played out over the last couple weeks, I have had to Greco-Roman wrestle away the remote from my group of gals to get any significant watch time in.

Merlyn Johnson: Anticipation building for new school year

August 6, 2024

The 2024-2025 school year will begin on Tuesday, August 20. We are excited to welcome our students and staff back for another great year at Cassville R-IV School District.

Dakoda Pettigrew: American Insights — a perennial choice

August 6, 2024

“America wept tonight, not alone for its dead young President, but for itself,” the journalist James Reston wrote in a special to The New York Times, which, on Saturday, November 23, 1963, bore the haunting headline “Kennedy is Killed by Sniper.”

Trout Tales, July 31

July 30, 2024

I dug out my safety gear again this year for Saturday’s Ozarks Got Talent show at Zone 4 Mini Golf & More. There’s a fiery trend at this event, and I always say, “Safety first.”

Dakoda Pettigrew: The hateful embrace

July 30, 2024

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.

Kyle Troutman: It’s in your hands

July 30, 2024

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.

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