October 12, 2026
AWARD WINNER – Local Sonic Manager Dustin Decker holds two award plaques won by the El Dorado Springs drive-in at a Sonic Awards Banquet on March 17. One plaque is for the highest dollar amount and the other was for the highest percentage. The local franchise competed against 19 other stores in Missouri and Kansas.
FOUR BULLDOGS NAMED ACADEMIC ALL STATE – The recipients are (from left) are softball players Junior Jace Cundiff, Senior Paige Easy, Junior Makenzie Melton, Senior Payton Babcock. They are coached by Alyssa Sargent, who took the photo.
MCKINNEY AND STEUCK COMPETE AT WARRENSBURG RELAYS – ECS Seniors, Drew Steuck and Seth McKinney kicked off the 2018 ECHS track season at UCM Mule Relays in Warrensburg on Tuesday, March 20. Seth placed sixth in the 300 meter hurdles, missing finals by hundredths of a second. Drew placed 4th in the 1600m and 4th
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) encourages hunters to think safety while in the woods turkey hunting. Youth spring turkey hunting season is April 7-8 and regular spring turkey hunting season begins April 16 and runs through May 6. Shooting hours for regular turkey season are from a half hour before sunrise to 1 p.m.
University of Missouri Extension and Lincoln University are hosting a “Sheep and Goat Workshop” focused on internal parasite management starting at 4 p.m.Thursday, April 19, at the Osceola First Baptist Church, 555 Walnut Street. This workshop will include lecture, discussion and a hands-on activity related to body condition scoring, FAMACHA© Scoring, Fecal Egg Count in
If you live a rural life, you spend enough time outdoors to know how many turkeys there are in your area. It is pretty simple to figure, because wild turkey group together in January to feed and roost – hens, poults and mature gobblers. They all come together and are easy to observe because as
by Linda Geist Denis Turner keeps his southwestern Missouri heifer replacement operation simple. For the most part, it is one man for 500-1,000 heifers at Turner’s Heifer Haven, a pasture-based operation where Turner raises heifers for others. “Make sure every task can be carried out by one person,” Turner says. “Two-man jobs are accomplished on
Few things match the culinary delight of fresh peas from the family garden, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Peas are tastiest immediately after being picked, before too much of the sugar converts to starch. For the same reason, peas that mature in cool weather are tastier than those harvested after temperatures rise.
Patience pays off for cattle producers who wait for fescue to grow some before turning cattle out for spring grazing, says University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist Patrick Davis. “After a long winter of feeding hay, producers are anxious to turn cattle into the fescue pasture,” Davis says. “However, it is better to wait until
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