May 25, 2026
UP IN SMOKE – Shortly after noon on Tuesday, Sept 27, the power station behind the Police Department started belching black smoke as deep orange flames leaped 50 ft into the air. City Manager Bruce Rogers said the blaze was hot enough to melt copper () Rogers also said the cause of the fire is
During City Manger Bruce Rogers’ report at the Sept. 26 council meeting, he mentioned that Cedar County Collector Joan Haines had visited with him on Aug. 25 and stated that the county would no longer be able to print the property taxes notices for the city due to changing software. The software would be the
IT’S OFFICIAL – Tom and Lana Sue Lewallen Jones hold the official Century Farm sign provided them by Cedar County Extension when their farm was added to the list of Century Farms. Tom’s parents lived in the house in the background until Tom’s dad, Herb, passed away in 1993. Tom and Nora Mae’s husband, George
The farm owned by Tom and Lana Sue (Lewallen) Jones south of El Dorado Springs has been named to the list of Missouri Century Farms. Lana Sue said she saw something about Century Farms, knew the farm had been in the Jones family over a hundred years and decided to look into it. She soon
After a relatively short and definitely productive and friendly meeting of the Cedar County Ambulance Board on Monday, Sept. 19, in the El Dorado Springs ambulance barn, one of the people who participated in the meeting commented outside the building that the meeting was fun, “people were laughing and joking.” Board members present for the
WE HAVE COME BACK – Vann Bighorse of the Osage Nation, director of the Wah-Zha-Zhi Cultural Center, stands on the WaKonTa Prairie north of El Dorado Springs at the opening of Prairie Days on Saturday, Sept. 17. He offered a prayer, spoken in Osage, asking for a blessing on the prairie and the day. Bighorse
JONES TO REPRESENT EL DORADO SPRINGS – Brianna Jones will represent our community as Miss El Dorado Springs at the 56th Annual Stockton Black Walnut Festival. The Queen contest begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, on the main stage in the park. Brianna, a 17 year-old high school senior, is the daughter of
Registration is open for the 2016 Great Central U. S. “ShakeOut” earthquake drill on Oct. 20. More than 450,000 Missourians are already registered to participate in the annual drill, which teaches people how to protect themselves in an earthquake. More than two million people are signed up in 14 central U.S. states that could be
We need YOU to help clean up our community. This Saturday is the fall “Clean-Up ElDo” campaign. Organize your own Clean Team. Gather friends and family or groups from your office, church, organization or club to participate. Teams will be assigned a unit (you may be able to pick one you want) to help clean
DAWSON AND DAWSON, AGAIN – Jake Dawson has joined the law practice of his father, Mike Dawson, at 207 South Main Street in El Dorado Springs. Jake, a graduate of Osceola High School, received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from UCM. He taught school for six years, two in El Dorado Spring as a Special
