Christmas Basket procedure

Please bring your confirmation letter and arrive at the First Baptist Church on Main Street between 9:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17. to pick up your Christmas Basket. If your family was selected to shop with a Lion you should plan to pick up a food basket at the church and you

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Best of the best

ELDO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HONORED – Left to Right: Chairman Missouri Chamber of Commerce & Industry (and President AT&T Missouri) John Sondag, El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jackson Tough, and Missouri Chamber Director Dan Mehan.  Tough was presented the “2016 Missouri Chamber of Commerce of the Year” for small market Thursday evening

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The Rock Wall

Kimball covers the city council meetings so I can go to ambulance board on Monday nights. She sometimes asks me to proof her report but I didn’t pay attention well enough to catch the change in the Christmas light winners: The judges no longer choose one in each of the four wards, just 1, 2,

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It ain’t over til the Fat Lady sings

Editor: One would think that after the failed attempt to overturn Donald Trump’s president-elect status with the recount effort, all would finally come to a closure. Well, that is just not the case. I am sure that several of you have already heard about all the emails, phone calls, etc. that have swamped our electoral

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Good luck, Donald

Editor: The election is over and the President Elect says his intention is to drain the swamp, meaning get rid of the useless garbage that for so long has run both parties and brought progress to a stand still in our nation’s capitol. Good luck in doing that Donald for both major parties liked the

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Ambulance Board to meet Monday

The Cedar County Ambulance District board is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 19, in the Stockton Ambulance Barn. Items on the agenda include a tower update, inventory and insurance for repairs to the Stockton barn.

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Square Dance around Christmas tree

On Friday, Dec. 16, the Mo-Kan Squares will have Christmas Dance with Jay Wright calling.  This will be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the Home Ec Building on the Vernon County Fairgrounds, Nevada.  Admission is $5 per adult dancer and $3 per youth dancer.  All area dancers and interested persons are invited. For

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Hurst re-elected Missouri Farm Bureau president

A farmer from Atchison County was re-elected president of the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation at its 102nd annual meeting. Voting delegates elected Blake Hurst, of Westboro Dec. 6, to his fourth two-year term. Approving 2017 legislative policy and electing board meetings capped the three-day meeting of farmers and ranchers. Hurst thanked members for allowing him

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Love note from Jeff City

My Fellow Missourians: We received notification today that the Department of Economic Development has awarded Neighborhood Assistance Tax Credits to the Friends of the St. Clair County Senior Center in Osceola and The Friends of the Hickory County Health Department in Hermitage.  This is wonderful news for all the constituents of District 125 knowing these

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