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by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Morning message at the Rockville United Methodist Church by Pastor Nick Van Dam sermon was titled “Take Heart and Have Courage.” Mt. Zion Home Bible study was held Tuesday 7 p.m. in the Tom and Beverly Pelkey home and had eight in attendance. Mark your calendars for Memorial Day

Golden Prey by John Sandford – A series of audacious robberies compels newly appointed U.S. Marshal Lucas Davenport to investigate the possible return of a gang leader who once killed two FBI agents. No Easy Target by Iris Johansen – Threatened by an enemy from her past, animal psychic Margaret Douglas goes on the run

As I sit down to chat with you, our youngest is enjoying his 28th birthday in the traditional family way – at work on deadline day. At lunch, I mentioned his actual birth as occurring about 1 a.m. on Tuesday. Kimball corrected me to 1:58 a.m. – I had a conversation today with Derrill Price

During the Public Forum section of the El Dorado Springs City Council meeting on Monday, May 15, Marge Vance, Director of Economic Development for Cedar County, mentioned that dilapidated houses in town. She said that census statistics showed that 15 years ago, 66% of the houses in town were occupied by owners and in 2015

CHECK IT OUT – The El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce presented a check in the amount of $44,000 to the city for the second phase of the “Sidewallk to the Future” project. The $44,000 represents 1⁄2 of the 20% of the federal grant that pays for the project. The money donated came from the

At the Monday, May 15, Cedar County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees meeting, Josh Wilks, CPA, with the auditing firm of  CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, presented  and reviewed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 audit report, He stated that their were no problems  encountered during the audit and that CCMH has a strong balance sheet and has no

FAMILY CONNECTION – Juda Wosoba and her husband, Fred, were at the Vietnam Wall Saturday to honor her cousin, Harry Lee Powers, who was KIA Nov. 21, 1966. A machine gunner on a tank, he was awarded the Bronze Star (post humously) for exceptional valor. Harry Lee had lots of cousins – Juda and Charles

48 YEARS IN THE MAKING – On Saturday, May 13, 2017, the family of Derrill Price Jr. gathered to the Vietnam Wall to pay tribute to their husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. They found his name listed on Wall Panel 24W Line 98. Derrill III said that a friend had brought him a rubbing from

Nathan S. Buckhanan, 20, Springfield, drowned about 6:45 p.m. Sunday, May 14, while swimming in Stockton Lake in Masters Cove. According to the report by Trooper M. R. Young, the victim left the designated swim area, swam to a buoy, started struggling and went under the water. Cedar County Coroner Nora Powell pronounced the subject

Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Nevada woman was sentenced in federal court May 16 for her role in a conspiracy to exchange “food stamps” for methamphetamine or cash. Julie M. Drake, 48, of Nevada, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to nine