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Saturday and Monday, the El Dorado Springs Volunteer Fire Department conducted their annual Book Block with proceeds going to Muscular Dystrophy. Several young ladies who were children of fire personnel spent time on the front lines of the Boot Block. The effort was a big success netting $10,130 which is $1,200 better than last year.

On Sunday, Aug. 23, at 5:51 p.m. the Fire Department was dispatched to a location S. 251 Rd. to set up and maintain a landing zone for medical aircraft. Trucks 2, 4 and 5 and 14 firefighters responded. On Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 6:42 p.m. the Fire Department was dispatched to assist the ambulance with

Board meeting minutes Date: 8-17-20 Cedar County Ambulance District, 319 Englewood, Stockton Mo 65785 Location: Stockton Ambulance Facility Meeting called to order at 6:33 Roll call Present: Rusty Norval, Chairman Nadine Sinclair Vice Chairman Keith Kasco, Sec/Tres Evelyn Boyle Diana Johnson Robert Graves Agenda Approval: A motion was made by Kasco to approve agenda, seconded

Nolan Davis, line superintendent, at Sac Osage Electric, told the Sun that he sent four men and two trucks to Derrider, LA, to help restore the hurricane damage. He expects them to be there 10 to 12 days. “We had a little storm up here the day we sent them out. Our guys worked about

The El Dorado Springs City Council held the annual tax rate hearing on Monday, Aug 31, setting the tax rate (per $100.00) at 1.0915 for a projected tax revenue of $354,974. The tax for municipal purposes breaks down like this: General – .06156, Band – .01481, Recreation – .1000 and Park .22278. There were no

We have re-scheduled our annual Car Show for Sept. 12. We are so happy we can finally share all the neat items that have been made for our Car Show Auction. The auction will take place the day of the show around 2:15 to 2:30. We have a collection of clocks made by Mark Boch

Tops Chapter 9319 El Dorado Springs (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) met in the United Methodist Church, 201 E Broadway on Thursday, August 27, 2020 for their weekly weigh in and meeting. Carol led us in singing the song Jan picked out for us “My Favorite Things.” We welcomed a visitor, Claudia Gaylord, our Area TOPS

Garrett and Colt Whitesell, El Dorado Springs, are proud to announce the birth of a son, Bex Colton Whitesell. He weighed 8 lbs. 12 oz. and was 21 inches long. Marci and Brant Brower, Walker, are proud to announce the birth of a daughter, Kaedren Dawn. She weighed 9 lbs. 4 oz. and was 20

Reported # of cases since beginning of COVID-19 (65) Current # of cases (17) Total # of cases requiring hospitalization (9) Current # of cases hospitalized (1) # of deaths (0) # of Negative test results (1973) Reported # of positive cases (65)

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