Barry County

Kids fish free on Saturday at Roaring River State Park

May 15, 2024

Young anglers will have opportunity to fish for free at Kids’ Fishing Day, set for Saturday at Roaring River State Park. This event is co-sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and Roaring River Adventures.

May 15, 2024

Lawrence and Barry County Democrats will meet on May 23 at the Angus Branch Steakhouse, located at 114 Chapel Drive in Monett. The meeting will start at 7 p.m.

Randy Crane: Making the best of ‘tipping over’

May 15, 2024

This devotional and directory is made possible by these businesses who encourage all to attend worship services. My wife and I stopped at a small town cafe for some breakfast one morning.

ROV diver faces challenges

May 8, 2024

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.

Revitalizing history

May 8, 2024

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.

Kyle Troutman: Spotting storms in Barry County

May 8, 2024

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.

May 8, 2024

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.

May 8, 2024

A Cassville man was seriously injured following a single-vehicle wreck on Friday at 8 p.m. on Highway 112, six miles south of Cassville.

May 8, 2024

A Stella man was injured on Friday in a wreck at 9:15 p.m. on Highway 76, half a mile east of Exeter.

Through the Years, May 8

May 8, 2024

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.

Barry County

Kids fish free on Saturday at Roaring River State Park

News Briefs, May 15

Randy Crane: Making the best of ‘tipping over’

ROV diver faces challenges

Revitalizing history

Kyle Troutman: Spotting storms in Barry County

DNR to host public hearing in Barry Co re land-application of waste

Driver ejected in Hwy. 112 crash

Bicyclist injured in collision with truck

Through the Years, May 8

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