June 1, 2025
The El Dorado Springs Picnic will be held Thursday – Saturday, July 20-22, 2017. The Picnic Committee will begin marking the streets with booth numbers on Wednesday morning. July 19. The map will be put in the window at city hall to help vendors know where their spots are for later that evening. Then beginning
Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former director and the former bookkeeper of the Vernon County Ambulance District have been indicted by a federal grand jury for embezzling more than $260,000 from the district. Tina L. Werner, 51, and James D. McKenzie, 51, both formerly of
Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Arkansas man has pleaded guilty in federal court to making bomb threats to the Cedar County Courthouse in an effort to cancel his own court hearing that he feared would send him to jail. Phillip Ray Robison Jr., 36, of
LOCAL VFW CONDUCTS MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY – VFW Auxiliary President Linda McCormick participated in the ceremony during the annual Memorial Day event at the City Cemetery in El Dorado Springs on Monday, May 29, honoring those who died serving in the armed forces. Originally called Decoration Day, the name Memorial Day was first used
Citizens Memorial Hospital/Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation and CoxHealth announce that they will not continue pursuing an affiliation agreement, according to Donald J. Babb, Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director of Citizens Memorial Hospital and Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation. The two health organizations have been negotiating since October 2016 when CMH and CoxHealth signed a letter
This Friday evening, June 2, will begin the 131st season for the El Dorado Springs Municipal Band. Concerts will be held every Friday and Saturday night from 8-9 p.m. and Sunday afternoons from 2-3 p.m. All concerts are free to the public and Municipal Band members would like to invite everyone to come listen to
Citizens Memorial Hospital’s Missouri Memory Center is now a registered dementia specialist site in the $100 million Imaging Dementia Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study (Ideas-Study.org). Missouri Memory Center is enrolling eligible Medicare patients in the trial to determine the clinical usefulness of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of brain amyloid deposits in the diagnosis
Free events will identify tree species and highlight characteristics and benefits. Spring is a great time to take a walk, enjoy nature and learn about trees. In the upcoming weeks, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will hold tree identification walks in El Dorado Springs and Joplin. The El Dorado Springs walk will start at
STATE TRACK BOUND – This time last year, Tyler Goatley and Ashley Knoll were watching eventual state champion Lance Molz get ready to go to the state track meet. Ethan Parshall was in the 8th grade. Now it’s Tyler Goatley, Ashley Knoll and Ethan Parshall ready to make their mark this weekend in Jefferson City
There will be a Memorial Day service at 11 a.m. Monday, May 29 and the Green Lawn Cemetery in Schell City. Please join us and bring your lawn chairs.
