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Cedar County Memorial Hospital CEO Jana Witt took time over this past weekend to answer written questions from the Sun about the proposed tax levy that will be on the April ballot. Q.  How much money does the current tax rate generate? The current tax levy generates approximately $265,000-$270,000 a year. Q.  What is the

Absentee voting has begun for the April 02, 2019 General Municipal Election.  You may vote absentee in the County Clerk’s office, Room 3, of the Cedar County Courthouse.

THE EL DORADO SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS AWARDS $12,451 – Kay Forest with the El Dorado Springs Community Foundation of the Ozarks was at the El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce meeting on Thursday, Feb. 14, to award grants to seven local  recipients.   The El Dorado Springs R-II School received $6,941: $2,000

The El Dorado Springs Shopko store located at Hwys 32 and 54 will begin liquidating its inventory on Friday, Feb. 15. Doug Cage, the local supervisor, said that the liquidation is an “everything must go” situation and the actual closing of the store might take place before the stated closing date of May 12. Cage

Tom Cain, El Dorado Springs Utility Director “We really don’t know how many there were.” “The ice pulled service lines pulled off of houses and also shorted out some main lines. A little bit of a mixture of everything. A couple of poles broken off.” “We were called out about 9 o’clock Wednesday night.” Q.

Jim Davis, Sac Osage Electric general manager Q. I’m calling to find out how much damage the ice storm did for Sac Osage Electric customers. “In a 24 hour time period, we had 1,229 off, not all at the same time. The most off at any one time was 600. The longest anyone was off

Home…Sometimes it’s a different place than what you had in mind. Bobbie E. Roberts has seen a lot of things in his 93 years. Most people who have lived that long have seen a lot; but his story, especially in the last few years, tells of how a “hometown” hospital and those people in it

Editor’s note: Last week, El Dorado Springs Superintendent Mark Koca gave patrons, students and staff the opportunity to voice their opinion on a four-day school week. In one day, the school received over 300 responses, Mr. Koca said, but he didn’t know how the votes were going. On Thursday, the Sun interviewed him to learn

Missourians are encouraged to prepare and learn how to respond in case of a large-scale earthquake Southeast Missouri – home to the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) – has produced some of the strongest earthquakes ever to rock North America. In 1811-1812, a series of major quakes destroyed several settlements and dramatically affected the landscape,