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City Council approves community garden

  At its regular meeting, Monday, Oct. 2, the El Dorado Springs City Council voted to allow Jeana Oschner to start a Community Garden on West Fields Street.   Oschner said she would write grants and apply for 501C3 status. She said she would also have an email address. She plans to put info in

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Drug runners

NUT RUN WINNERS – Two runners from Evans Drug went to the Nut Run in Stockton Saturday morning and brought home the top hardware. Brooke Beaty took first in the women’s 10 K and Kevin McCullough finished 1st in the men’s 5 K race. Brooke plans to run a full marathon (26.2 miles) later this

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Chamber announces Commerce Home Based/ Small Business Holiday Expo

The El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce will present three holiday events on one big day, Saturday, Nov. 18. Events will include the “Thankful for the Holidays” Christmas Parade which will start at 3 p.m. Following the parade the Park Lighting Celebration will take place. Lighting Celebration festivities will include entertainment, food and fun for

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Taking opioid companies to task

“Start them high and hope they don’t die,” is how an employee at Insys, a major U.S. opioid manufacturer, described one of his company’s unofficial slogans according to legal documents. That’s horrifying. At a time when drug addictions and overdoses are skyrocketing and Missouri families in communities across our state are being ripped apart, I’m

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The Rock Wall

I got a little different take than the people who did the story about a WWII ship that a Japanese submarine sank late in the war in water that is about three miles deep. The U.S. just now got technology that let searchers find the Indianapolis in over 18,000 feet of water somewhere in the

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Community Foundation offers grant funds for community projects

Applications are now being accepted for the annual El Dorado Springs Community Foundation Grants.  Grant applications should include the following: • Name of organization applicant and contact person, address and telephone number. •  Brief description of project. • Goals – what is desired accomplishment? • Objectives – how will goals be accomplished? • Budget –

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Two air lifted

THREE HURT – Three were hospitalized, two by air ambulance, from a wreck on Hwy. HH five miles southwest of El Dorado Springs at about 4:25 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25. According to the report by Trooper T. Harmon, Michael G. Matzke, 65, El Dorado Springs, was northbound in a GMC Sierra truck when the trailer

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Boat refueling explosion kills one

A Nevada man was killed and an El Dorado Springs woman was injured in a refueling explosion on the Lake of the Ozarks about 12:15 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24. According to the report by Cpl. J. W. Collins of the Highway Patrol, the 1989 Carver Santigo Bay boat exploded after refueling. Ronald J. Moore, 76,

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Get better job with High School degree

Sept. 24-30 is National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week. In Missouri, there are 28 adult education programs with more than 250 class sites. The Nevada Adult Education and Literacy (AEL) program has classroom sites in Nevada, El Dorado Springs, and Stockton. Missouri AEL programs serve adults 17 years of age and older, who are

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Bulky trash pickup Oct. 9 – 13

The date for the El Dorado Springs residential bulky trash will be the week of Oct. 9-13. 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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