July 15, 2026
This year’s Schell City Fall Festival Parade Grand Marshalls can trace their family history in the town to just after the founding of the community in 1871. Although he was born in Kansas City, John R. Hoagland has spent most of his life in Schell City except for his service in the U.S. Navy during
Phillip Ray Robison Jr., El Dorado Springs, is scheduled for trial on Oct. 24, which will be held at the federal courthouse in Springfield. He has been appointed a public defender because he cannot afford to hire an attorney. On Feb. 23, a federal grand jury inidicted Robison on two counts of making a telephone
The date for the El Dorado Springs residential bulky trash will be the week of Sept. 26-29. Place the bulky items out the night before or by 4 a.m. the same day as your regular trash pickup. Yard waste (including brush and tree limbs), hazardous waste, tires, paint and appliances will not be picked up
WHITESELL RE-ELECTED – Denny Whitesell was re-elected to the board of directors for United Producers Inc. effective June 22. As a director, he will represent the members of District 2, southern Missouri, for a three-year term on the board of directors. Elected during UPI’s district delegate meeting, he will help govern the largest livestock marketing
Article from The Wall Street Journal One school tries to educate freshmen, not bow to their anxieties For a change, we come not to bury a college president but to praise him. His name is Robert Zimmer, and nearby the University of Chicago president defends the educational and societal virtues of free speech on college
On Friday, Sept. 16, the Mo-Kan Square Dancers will have a square dance with Kenton Sullivan calling. This will be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the Home Ec building at the Vernon County Fairgrounds in Nevada. Admission is $5 per adult dancer and $3 per youth dancer. All area dancers and interested persons
There will be an all you can eat breakfast smorgasbord in Fair Haven Park from 7 – 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17. The menu will offer pancakes, biscuits, sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, sausage and coffee or tea. The donation for adults will be $5, children 4 – 10 – $3, kids under 4 eat free.
The Cedar County Memorial Hospital Board of Directors will meet at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 19, in the hospital classroom.
The Cedar County Ambulance District Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, in the El Dorado Springs Ambulance Barn. Unfinished Business will be tower update and inventory. New Business on the agenda is bookkeeper bids, clerk bids and filling the vacancy in District 1.
A library card is the coolest card – September is Library Card Sign-up Month Today’s libraries are about more than books. They are creative educational spaces for learners from birth to high school and beyond. September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when the Cedar County Library joins with the American Library Association and
