August 25, 2026
Concerts Celebrating Flag Day and Father’s Day Thursday, June 14, is Flag Day, so on Friday evening, the El Dorado Springs Municipal Band will play a special concert with patriotic songs in our celebration for this special occasion. We play on Friday and Saturday evenings from 8 to 9. On Sunday, the Band will be
Mary Swaggerty, who had worked in the State License Office in Stockton for 27 years, retired May 31 when the Stockton office closed.
Cedar County Fairgrounds Stockton June 20-23 Wednesday, June 20 3:00 p. m. Non-Livestock entries check-in begins. Attach entry tags and complete summary sheet. 5:00 p. m. Non-Livestock entries check-in ends; area closed for judging. Rabbit and Poultry check-in begins. 6:00 p.m. Rabbit show begins. Poultry show will begin after Rabbit show. Thursday, June 21
ELDO NATIVE WINS AT NEVADA SPEEDWAY – Continuing his hot streak of the season, Craig Wood dominated the late model field to bag his third consecutive win of the season after battling door-to-door with Billy Humble of Rich Hill. Humble has been out of a car since 2015, but showed his competitors that he still
DOBBS BAGS FIRST WIN OF SEASON – Collecting his first win of the season and putting weekly competitor Rusty Skaggs to a halt on his hot streak, was Lucas Dobbs who bagged his first win of the season after competing with Joplin’s Kyle Thompson side-by-side for many laps. Thompson finished in the runner up spot,
Woods Supermarket, headquartered in Bolivar is partnering with Southwest Baptist University to launch a training and internship program that gives SBU students an opportunity to receive career training with pay as they work with professionals in the grocery industry. “By working entry-level jobs the first year, and then advancing to management training, students will learn
by Neoma Foreman Welcoming the Walker School Alumni at the Walker Christian Church Saturday evening, June 2, was Larry Buckles, acting president. Vernille Cubbage gave a short history of the pledge to the American flag and then led in the pledge. Josh Bachand, youth minister at the Walker Christian Church asked the blessing on the
The Northeast Vernon County Class of 2003 met at the high school in Walker and toured it Saturday afternoon. Those attending were: Wendy (Foreman) and Brandon Conley, and son, Trista (Long) Winter and family, Jill (Vantellman) Barend Jones and family, Brian and Hollie Koehn and family. Later, they went to the home of Melvin Koehn,
Morning group TOPS Chapter 9319 El Dorado Springs met in the Methodist Church on Thursday, June 7, for their weekly weigh-in and meeting. Leader Sheryl Ann Walker called the meeting to order. Carol led us in singing “To TOPS Club We Will Go.” We said our pledges. Marilyn led us in a series of stretching
Fighting Japanese Beetles I was meandering through my garden at sunset when I spotted the beautiful iridescent green spots on a milkweed. Juvenile Japanese beetles, starting to hatch from last year’s buried grubs. For the next six weeks, it will be a battle between these wily bugs and me. The 3/8th of an inch hard
