News from Harwood and area

By Helen Ellerman Jewell and Helen Ellerman attended to El Dorado Springs Senior Center fried chicken dinner Sunday, Sept. 18. Several from the area attended the Walker Fund Days at Walker Saturday, Sept. 17. Church service was held at the Harwood Baptist Church Sunday, Sept. 18. Brother Jon Caudle Sr.’s sermon was taken from Acts.

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Baked Potato Luncheon next week

TOPS Chapter 319 El Dorado Springs (Take Off pounds Sensibly) met in the Church Of Christ meeting room on Thursday, Sept. 15. Tickets have been printed for the Baked Potato Luncheon which will be held on Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Community Center Banquet Room, 135 W. Spring St. We will serve from 11 a.m.

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The Rock Wall

I need your full attention for a minute. We changed our email address a year or so ago. If you send something to our old address for the newspaper we will never know it. We’ve had that happen several times in the past couple of weeks… that we know of. I have put the new

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School board picks option for construction

At it’s Sept. 8 meeting, the El Dorado Springs R-II School Board picked an option to offer to voters on the Nov. 8 ballot. The architect gave the board two options that basically had to do with the gym placement. The board chose the one with the new Middle School gym closer to the High

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Hometown couple honored

IT WAS GRAND – Lucille and John R. Hoagland, long time residents of Schell City, were recognized for their community involvement as festivities got under way at the Schell City Fall Festival on Friday, Sept. 9. They were named the Grand Marshals of the Schell City Fall Festival Parade.  More Fall Festival pictures next week.

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Marijuana operation busted

Sheriff Dwerlkotte received information from the Polk County Sheriff Office in reference to a possible large marijuana grow operation off Hwy. N near the Hwy. J intersection. Sheriff Dwerlkotte and deputies from Cedar County Sheriff Office, in conjunction with the Missouri  National Guard Counter Drug Helicopter, Community Narcotic Enforcement Team from Bates, and Vernon County

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MDC offers free Prairie Day event Sept. 17

Celebrate native grasslands with tours and exhibits at Wah’Kon-Tah Prairie Early autumn adds new color to Missouri’s tallgrass prairie remnants and restorations. The goldenrod and ashy sunflowers bloom, letting yellow flowers wave over green grassland. Native warm season grasses stand tall, waiting to turn golden red as winter approaches. Visitors can enjoy guided tours and

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Hoaglands named Grand Marshalls

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

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Robison federal trial set for Oct. 24

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

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Bulky trash pickup Sept. 26-29

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

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