April 16, 2024
DON’T GET HISSTERICAL – A momma Copperhead and her litter of nine, all with a venomous bite. August is the month for baby copperheads. Typically they will lay motionless until you get into striking range. Be careful when you pick up any object from the ground. There might be a little yellow tail under it
U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Ranking Member and Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, announced that President Biden signed into law a bill (H.R. 3325) to issue Congressional Gold Medals recognizing the service and sacrifice of the U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers who defended
Our Missouri Celebration: 2021 Missouri State Fair August 12 – 22 | Missouri State Fairgrounds, Sedalia In Sedalia, join us for Our Missouri Celebration at the 2021 Missouri State Fair. The theme this year is the Missouri Bicentennial with special exhibits to commemorate statehood along with livestock shows, concerts, motorsport events, and more. The event
PACKING UP THE LAST OF THE PICNIC – City crews will finish de-constructing the frame work of the Picnic stage this week. The pool will close on Aug 15 (maybe), school starts on Aug 25 (pretty sure that’s correct,) the first football game of the season is Saturday, Aug. 28, in Forsyth (according to the
Cedar County Memorial Hospital will administer the Moderna two-dose and Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccines free of charge from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 5, at the hospital. At this time, the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are approved only for the 18 year and older population. To make an appointment
The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations has implemented a process for claimants to apply to the Division of Employment Security (DES) for potential waiver of the recovery of non-fraud federal pandemic program unemployment benefit overpayments. Notices to eligible claimants began mailing out last week and are available in the “Correspondence” tab of UInteract,
Municipal Band Ready for Last Month of Programs This Summer The Municipal Band has completed two months of programs and only has four more weekends of concerts remaining this summer. The month of August is always hard as we tell our college students goodbye for the coming school year and our band grows smaller each
Six southwest Missouri residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a kidnapping conspiracy that resulted in the death of the victim. Freddie Lewis Tilton, also known as “Ol’ Boy,” 48, and Carla Jo Ward, 47, both of Joplin, Mo.; Amy Kay Thomas, 38, of Webb City, Mo.; James B.
IT”S NO PICNIC WITHOUT A MERRY – GO-ROUND – If the lack of a Merry-Go-Round and a Ferris Wheel was of great concern to the throngs of people who piled into downtown El Dorado for the three nights of the Annual Picnic, they didn’t say much about it. However, for a lot of local folk
TALENT CONTEST PICKS CHARITY CLAYTON – At the end of the Picnic Talent contest on Friday, July 23. Charity Clayton stood out as the overall winner out of a field of 24 competitors across three age groups. More pictures next week.
