“The Band Plays On”

Band Concert to Honor Lillian Sunderwirth The Municipal Band is honored to play a special concert dedicated to the memory of Lillian Sunderwirth on Saturday, June 18 at 8 p.m. We will take a walk down memory lane as we play songs that were favorites of Miss Lillian’s throughout this hour-long concert. We will hear

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Coach Scroggins optimistic

Football team young but looking good After the first two-week session of summer football camp, El Dorado Springs Head Football Coach Derek Scroggins is upbeat and positive about his young football team. On Friday, he told the Sun, “It’s gone really well. We are going to be really young this year and inexperienced.” “We started

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COOL REWARD

Wild otters aren’t the only creatures who enjoy an impromptu water slide. So do wild Bulldogs. Bulldog Head Football Coach Derek Scroggins set one up last Thursday morning for the athletes who attended everyday of the first two-week football camp. First, 31 football players took the plunge, then female athletes who had worked out with

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MDC searches for vehicle in elk poaching case

Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) agents would like to speak to the driver of a 2007-12 dark gray four-door GM pickup, reported by an anonymous tip to have been at Log Yard Access along the Current River between 8:30 and 9 p.m. on Dec. 28, 2015.  Anyone who was at the Log Yard Access area

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Fishing report

Taberville Report by Linda McCallister Dains Fish Farm I just talked to some people who are trotlining and they say they are doing good on white cats. They are using the bait we’ve got – regular perch and goldfish. I heard some people talking earlier this week. They were checking their lines morning and night

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FROGGING SEASON OPENS JUNE 30

Frogging can be done with a gig, as shown here, and the use of artificial light is permitted. Children under the age of 16 are not required to have a permit. Froggers can use a bare hand (called grabbing), hook and line (with colored cloth on the hook), gig, bow and arrow or a gun.

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VAN DYK’S KARATE COMPETES IN OKLAHOMA

On Saturday, June 4, students from Van Dyk’s Karate in El Dorado Spring who are representing the SWAT National Karate Team traveled to Moore, OK, to compete in the Dog Days of Summer Karate Tournament sponsored and sanctioned by the Oklahoma Karate Association. Hunter Malensek and Mason Gardner represented their team, school and community very

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Concert at El Dorado Springs Opera House June 23

The Opera House Arts Council has another scholarship concert scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, June 23, featuring one of our local bands, Rekoil. Rekoil is a long time home town band of El Dorado Springs, made up of four country boys with deep roots in playing country music with an occasional old rock n roll

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Crowder College Spring Dean’s List

Crowder College announced the spring 2016 Dean’s List. El Dorado Springs – Makenzie Schwalm, Karlee Collins, Jamie Fletcher, Ginelle Esry, Lindsay Daniel, Shelby Loane, Robert Christian, Melissa Gooden, Olivia Witt, Ashlee Kicenski, Riley Taylor, Kayla Cochran and Tabitha Bender.

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