Area fishing Report

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Everybody’s catching spoonbills from a boat and from the bank. It’s not what I’d call good. We need some current. I weighed and shot a picture of Terry Smith and his 115 lb. spoonbill. They are catching blue cats on throw lines. Caplinger Caplinger Woods Danny

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Fast Tracks and High Hopes: ElDo home Track Meet Showdown

by Clayton Hathaway, 9 We had a wonderful home Track meet on April 9, 2024. Both the Boys and Girls teams did amazing. Both Will Sietz and Braylie Steward both would set new school records. I asked some Track Athletes, what is the biggest challenge and how they overcome these challenges. Thomas Davenport (9) said

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Holden Baseball Tournament not great

Bulldogs 1 Odessa 7 Bulldogs 6 Adrian 8 Bulldogs 3 Midway 7 It was a tough week of baseball this week for the Bulldogs at the Holden Tournament.  I thought we had some well played baseball at times, but were very inconsistent. We were up 6-1 in the Adrian game through five innings.  Unfortunately we

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ElDo Bulldog home Track meet did not disappoint

On Tuesday, April 9, the El Dorado Springs High School track team hosted their one and only home track meet. The weather turned out to be incredible for great performances. And the ElDo Bulldog squads didn’t disappoint. On the girls side, the 4 x 800 meter relay, consisting of Tatum Quinlan, Christian Steuck, Riley Lee

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Bad News for Turkeys

An old man in the rural part of St. Clair County successfully worked to keep wild turkeys plentiful on his place. For 15 years he did a heck of a job! His name was Dan Besser. He bought some incubators and raided several wild turkey nests each spring, hatching the eggs and raising the turkey

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BIG FISH

Terry Smith hauled in this 115 lb spoonbill out of the Osage River on April 6. photo by Bobby Dains.

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TOPS wishes Stephany a happy birthday

TOPS Chapter 9319 El Dorado Springs met in The Preferred Family Healthcare building, 700 E. Hospital Rd, El Dorado Springs on Thursday, April 11, 2024 for their regular weigh in and meeting. Warren, our leader, called the meeting to order. Carol led us in singing “My Favorite Things” We said our TOPS & KOPS Pledges

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Why parks are important

Local parks are of great importance to our community. Parks provide a calm, soothing space where you can meet up with your friends and children can play safely. Parks are often taken for granted by those that don’t understand their importance. Parks are where many childhood memories and friendships begin. Most people can vividly remember

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The Rock Wall

There’s Mouse Roulette at the El Dorado Springs Eagles Lodge at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 13. $2 bets. Proceeds benefit the El Dorado Springs Picnic entertainment. That might be more entertaining that the Solar Eclipse we just had. It was interesting, but I believe that being in a reclining lawn chair on the sidewalk

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Lions Club breakfast April 27

The El Dorado Springs Lions Club will have a breakfast buffet from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27, at 1109 South Jackson. Menu includes pancakes, biscuits and gravy, sausage and eggs. The cost for the breakfast will be a free will donation. Proceeds go to benefit local Lions projects including park, grounds and building

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