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Roaring River Cave possibly home to unique species

November 20, 2024

Verification of unique species could come with naming rights Based on genetic testing, there’s a “high probability” that Roaring River Spring Cave is home to a unique species of amphipod. Dr.

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.

ROV-ing to exploration: Diver to use remote vehicles in Roaring River spring

April 17, 2024

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.

April 17, 2024

Longer days and warmer temps stir excitement in all gardeners. We start scouring seed catalogs for new releases, take trips to the local garden center, and revel in that unspoken competition to be the first gardener to start tomatoes (and the disappointment when you’re not).

New map installed at Roaring River Spring mouth

April 9, 2024

Over the weekend, Linda and Gordon Hahn, of Charlottesville, Va., got a chance to survey the new map placed at the mouth of Roaring River Spring in late March. The Hahn’s son, Eric Lee Hahn, lost his life in the spring while serving as a diver with the KISS Rebreathers dive team. The team conducted monthly weekend explorations of the spring from May 2021 until Hahn’s death on Oct. 14, 2022. The new map at the spring was created as a result of the KISS Rebreathers team’s explorations.

Another way to dive; ‘underwater robots’ to explore spring cave

April 9, 2024

Steve Haggitt has plans to dive into Roaring River Cave deeper than any person has been before – with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Haggitt and a team of three additional divers will operate the ROVs – essentially, underwater robots – with the initial objective of providing a 3-D model of the upper room (Chamber 1) to the Missouri State Park system for interpretive and public display purposes.

‘Cats stalking district title

March 13, 2024

With six returning starters and the first district win in eight years, the Cassville baseball team is setting championship goals this season.

January 23, 2024

As a gardener, at the start of the New Year comes the hope of a fresh garden season. With a little planning and preparation before the daylight hours lengthen and the soil temperatures warm up, we can set ourselves up for a more productive garden season.