May 20, 2026
Celebrate native grasslands with tours and exhibits at Wah’Kon-Tah Prairie Early autumn adds new color to Missouri’s tallgrass prairie remnants and restorations. The goldenrod and ashy sunflowers bloom, letting yellow flowers wave over green grassland. Native warm season grasses stand tall, waiting to turn golden red as winter approaches. Visitors can enjoy guided tours and
This year’s Schell City Fall Festival Parade Grand Marshalls can trace their family history in the town to just after the founding of the community in 1871. Although he was born in Kansas City, John R. Hoagland has spent most of his life in Schell City except for his service in the U.S. Navy during
Phillip Ray Robison Jr., El Dorado Springs, is scheduled for trial on Oct. 24, which will be held at the federal courthouse in Springfield. He has been appointed a public defender because he cannot afford to hire an attorney. On Feb. 23, a federal grand jury inidicted Robison on two counts of making a telephone
The date for the El Dorado Springs residential bulky trash will be the week of Sept. 26-29. 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
ELDO COUPLE CLAIMS $25,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE PRIZE – An El Dorado Springs couple is now “lucky for life” after claiming a $25,000 a year for life second-tier prize in the Missouri Lottery Draw Game. Robert, 53, and Kathryn, 60, Foley claimed their prize at the Lottery’s Springfield regional office on Aug. 26 after
A wanted fugitive has been taken into custody after a four-day manhunt and a fight that sent one Vernon County deputy to the hospital. According to Vernon County Sheriff’s office officials, deputies pursued a vehicle Tuesday afternoon that ended with the vehicle crashing in a ditch on 2350 Rd. in rural Vernon County. The driver
by Johaness Brann Nevada Daily Mail Circuit Judge James Bickel, at a hearing on Tuesday, Aug. 30, in Nevada, sentenced Logan Ellison, 19, to 22 years in prison for the murder of his grandparents, Herman and Rosie Ellison, on Oct. 9, 2014, in their Vernon County home southwest of El Dorado Springs where Logan lived
The Cedar County Farm Bureau Annual Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Christian Church, Stockton. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. “All Cedar County Farm Bureau members are encouraged to attend this important meeting,” Cedar County Farm Bureau President Peggy Kenney said. “The dinner is complimentary.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced Nov. 18 as the first cut-off date to apply for fiscal year 2017 funds through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
The El Dorado Spring Preserve Our Past Society will host a breakfast of biscuits and gravy in the Wayside Inn Museum Dining room from 7 – 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept 10. The menu will include all you can eat biscuits and gravy, coffee, tea and orange juice, Proceeds will benefit the El Dorado Springs School
