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“The Picnic went pretty well. We didn’t have any major problems,” City Manager Bruce Rogers said Monday. He doesn’t yet have all the bills in so he can’t give a dollar figure on the Picnic. He said that in the past, the vendors and the carnival people got confused about when the Picnic would be

TEST RIDE – Wilma McKinley, 101, volunteered her time to make sure the Carousel was in top form for the 2022 picnic.

DANCE IN THE PARK – The Picnic always begins (at least for the past several years) with a dance on Wednesday evening. The 2022 dance winners are: 1st – Frankie and Jan Keith; 2nd – tie, Joey and Sheena Esparza/Steve Thomas and Kylie Thomas; 3rd tie Kandice Berning and Kristin McNeece/Brodi McNeece and Carly Thompson.

In response to increasingly dry conditions and the growing threat of serious drought, Governor Mike Parson today issued Executive Order 22-04 calling upon the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to activate the Drought Assessment Committee and the associated drought impact teams. The Executive Order declares a drought alert for 53 counties in southern and central

INSTALLED – A royal court was announced on Tuesday at the Land of Lakes fairgrounds to reign over the youth fair festivities which concluded on Friday, July 15. Crowned for the brief rein were Queen Jaydn Lower, Princess Abigail Lame and Junior Princess Hadley Shelby. From left: Lane Mead and Queen candidate Gracie Mead, Jamie

Once more it is picnic time again, in fact the 141th Annual Picnic. Each year we pause to remember day’s gone bye, renew old friendships, meet new friends, have some school class reunions, and enjoy the carnival and entertainment in our City Park and our downtown area. Certainly, we at the Police Department want to

El Dorado Springs Community Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the Mark Koca Memorial Scholarship Fund. The local memorial scholarship fund of $15,000 was established with donations from family and friends of the late Mark Koca. The family wishes to honor his memory by creating a perpetual scholarship fund for financial assistance to

THROUGH EDUCATION AND SERVICES – Katie’s House, a pregnancy and family resource center located at 1308 S Hwy. 32 in El Dorado Springs, was honored with a El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting on Tuesday, July 12. Katie’s House is a non-profit organization offering pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, healthy pregnancy education, prenatal and infant

Councilman Jim Luster called for a point of order during the Tuesday, July 5, council meeting as the discussion teetered close to executive session issues. During the Public Forum Kathie Truitt addressed the council about a vulgar bumper sticker on the back of a city employee’s vehicle. Truitt said that it looked bad for the