Community

New online search tool for local businesses

El Dorado Springs Chamber Joins New Growth Community Development Corporation to Get Local Businesses Found in Google Searches St. Clair and Cedar counties take action with LocalAnyDay mobile marketing platform If you want to buy local, you first have to find local. But finding local is especially difficult in the smartphone era. Most rural businesses

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OATS Transit Schedule Cedar County

OATS Transit, a Missouri based transportation provider, is pleased to announce the following schedule for your area: •  From Cedar County to: Joplin – 1st Wednesday each month Nevada – 1st Friday each month Bolivar –  2nd Thursday, 3rd Friday each month Springfield – 3rd Tuesday each month •  To El Dorado Springs Senior Center

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Cedar County Historical Society report

by Judy Nichols The monthly meeting of the Cedar County Historical Society was held on April 29, 2019 at the museum in Stockton.  Those present were: President Judy Nichols, Vice President Judith Cain, Assistant Treasurer Anna Hopkins, Luella Phipps, Sharyl Henry, Ellis Benham, Chris Barber and Bob Phillips.  Secretary Connie Maupin was not able to

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CEDAR COUNTY 4-H PLANTS LIBERTY TREE

CEDAR COUNTY 4-H PLANTS LIBERTY TREE – Cedar County 4-H’ers met at 10 am on Saturday, April 27th to plant Cedar County’s very own Liberty Tree in the Stockton City Park.  The tree was planted where a panel of the former traveling Vietnam Veteran’s wall and other tributes to veterans will be located in the

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CELEBRATING 90 YEARS

CELEBRATING 90 YEARS – On Sunday, May 5, 2019, family gathered with Lee Corbin to celebrate her 90th birthday (May 7, 1929). Numerous family members enjoyed good food, old photos and fond memories. Pictured are Lee and her children (from left) seated – Randy Corbin and Lee Corbin, standing behind – Rhonda (Corbin) Wallen and

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West Central receives grant from CFO and Commerce Trust

The Community Foundation of the Ozarks, in partnership with Commerce Trust Company, awarded a $20,000 grant to West Central Missouri Community Action Agency to support the El Dorado Works! Program, a neighborhood-based job readiness program housed in the renovated Liston Elementary School building. The grant was presented as part of the 2019 Coover Regional Grant

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Regional Grant Award Kicks off El Dorado Works! Project

West Central Missouri Community Action Agency (West Central) was recently awarded $20,000 from the Louis L. and Julia Dorothy Coover Charitable Foundation, and is one of 20 projects funded by the foundation, out of 100 applications from across central and southern Missouri. The Louis and Dorothy Coover Regional Grantmaking Program is a partnership between Community

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Osceola youth killed in wreck

Cody D. Singleton, 16, Osceola, was pronounced dead at the scene of a two-vehicle crash on Hwy. 13 at Hwy V four miles south of Osceola that occurred at 10:15 p.m. on Saturday,  April 27. According to the report by Trooper T. C. Baker and a team of investigators, the victim as westbound in a

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Stolen cash recovered

On April 4, Cedar County Sheriff McCrary responded to The Shack Restaurant in Stockton to take a report of a theft of cash. It was reported that a grocery delivery driver had possibly taken the cash. Cedar County Deputy Josh Coots located and detained the delivery driver west of Stockton. Deputy Ruth Belcher and Lt.

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CCAD buys pressure washer

At a special meeting on Wednesday, April 17, the Cedar County Ambulance District voted to buy a Hy Flow pressure washer for $1,725. Present were Rusty Norval – chair, Nadine Sinclair – vice chair, Keith Kasco – sec/treas, Diane Johnson and Evelyn Boyle – by proxy.

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