August 4, 2026
On Friday, June 2, Mo-Kan Square Dancers will dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the Home Ec Building at the Vernon County Fairgrounds, Nevada. Dean Dederman, National Caller, will be featured. Admission is $5 per adult dancer and $3 per youth dancer. All area dancers and interested persons are invited. For more information, call
After Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City announced it will exit the Affordable Care Act exchanges, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) released the following statement: “Today, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City announced they are pulling out of the Missouri ACA individual exchange by the end of the year. This is a
My Fellow Missourians: “O’er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave” (lyrics from our National Anthem) comes to my mind as we approach Memorial Day. Another song that comes to mind is by Billy Ray Cyrus. The lyrics are: “All gave some. Some gave all. Some stood through the red, white,
by Stewart Truelsen It’s a job-seekers’ market this year with the unemployment rate slowly declining and job creation at a high level, but how long will these jobs last? Computerization, robotics and artificial intelligence will bring a sea change to the workplace over the next couple of decades, creating new occupations and eliminating some current
The Missouri Senate passed the “Steel Mill Bill” to help bring jobs back to the state on Friday, May 26. It will now be sent to Governor Eric Greitens for his signature. The closure of the Noranda plant in New Madrid led to hundreds of Missourians losing their jobs. A bill aimed at attracting companies
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City announced that it will no longer offer plans on the Obamacare exchanges, leaving approximately 31,000 Missourians across 25 counties with no insurer option on the exchanges next year. “Obamacare is collapsing and Missouri families are paying the price,”
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bipartisan bill led by Senator Claire McCaskill and Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas to protect Missouri’s agriculture industry by addressing the threat of agro-terrorism and mitigating the risks to food put on tables across the country. McCaskill’s bipartisan legislation will require the Department of Homeland Security to prepare
Marriage Applications: Recorder of Deeds Office Cedar County Carole Wilkerson Recorder Edwin Dean Zack Laub, 30, Humansville, and Rosabel Emily Lebaron, 24, Humansville Hans Francis Miller, 22, El Dorado Springs, and Brooke Nicole Bland, 21, El Dorado Springs Jamey M Heryford, 35, Humansville, and Jorde Nichole Wood, 25, Humansville St. Clair County Robert
The following misdemeanors have been disposed in Cedar County: Joshua B Haley, Stockton, peace disurbance, littering 12/13, $100 fine 5/4 City of Stockton v Charles T Waite, property damage, trespass 2/22, $30 fine 5/4 The following traffic violations have been disposed in Cedar County: Christina Michelle Allen, Schell City, fail to signal/gave improper signal when
Municipal Court Docket – May 9: City of El Dorado Springs vs Falen Andrews, poss drug paraphernalia, $175.50 Leslie Houts, poss drug paraphernalia, $175.50 John Paul Crice, C&R driving in pk lot w acc, $75.50 Carrie Messick, fail to show proof ins, wrong license plates, $251 Brandi Stockdale, dog at large, $50.50 Trials: William Cain,
