October 17, 2026
University of Missouri Extension offers cattlemen a bus tour of cattle operations in Kansas and Oklahoma from Aug. 6-9. MU Extension Livestock Specialist Patrick Davis said the tour offers an opportunity to see several cattle operations to help them manage herds better, avoid disease conditions and make herds more profitable. Registration deadline is July 15.
TOPS Chapter 9319 El Dorado Springs met in the United Methodist Church, 201 E Broadway on Thursday, June 14. For their weekly weigh-in and meeting. Leader, Sheryl Ann Walker called the meeting to order. Carol and Kay led us in singing “We’ve Found the Way” to the tune of America The Beautiful. We said our
by Helen Ellerman Madalyn’s Kitchen, south of Schell City, will be closed on Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1. The Community Fourth of July celebration will be held on Saturday night, June 30, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Schell City Park. The meat and drinks will be furnished. Everyone attending is to bring
by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Morning message at the Rockville United Methodist Church was “Peace in the Storm” by Page Martin taken from Mark 4:35-41. Mt. Zion Home Bible study was held in the Tom and Beverly Pelkey home Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. to study the Bible had 12 in attendance. Mt. Zion
Darling Daylilies We don’t appreciate them as much as European settlers, who among their few possessions made room for Hemerocallis fulva, today’s common orange daylily, when they first arrived in North America. How did we forget how valuable these plants used to be? When I worked for several weeks in Southampton for the 50th Anniversary
TOPS Chapter 9319 El Dorado Springs met in the United Methodist Church, 201 E Broadway on Thursday, June 21, for their weekly weigh-in and meeting. Leader Sheryl Ann Walker called the meeting to order. Kay led us in singing “I Want to be at that meeting.” Twenty-Four weighed in today and we had a 2.2
It’s been an eventful week. – I started getting phone calls Monday about a massive fish kill at Shell-Osage. Davis recommended that I go take pictures. I did. He was right and so was everybody else who called. Tuesday I received a press release from the MDC. Also on Tuesday, I received a call back
El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce President Travis Farran and Chamber Board Members Vicki Hillsman, Heather Brown and Eran Dawson and Chamber Member Glenda Baker addressed the El Dorado Springs City Council at their regular meeting on Monday, June 18, about continuing with the Director of Economic Development position. Farran asked what the city’s plans
FISH KILL AT SCHELL – Schell Lake (the north lake at Schell Osage) is being drained in June for a major renovation project. A fish kill on June 18 as water became extremely shallow in places involves mostly invasive common carp and grass carp, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. The light brown mass
MDC is draining the lake for major renovation and improvements Shallow water conditions at a lake being drained for major renovations prompted a fish kill at Schell Lake on June 18, Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) fisheries biologists say. But almost all of the several thousand fish affected are non-native, invasive common carp or grass
