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Black Walnut Queen candidate

Lily Willinger, 17, a senior at El Dorado Springs High School will compete for the title of Black Walnut Queen starting at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27.

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And the Fun Continues with Constitution Week!

Did you hear the Ringing of the Bells throughout El Dorado Springs last Wednesday? This was part of the annual Bells Across America ceremony, organized by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), held each year on Constitution Day. At 3 p.m. CDT, bells rang out across the nation to commemorate the signing of the

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BZWATCHDOG Releases Video of Appleton City Arrest, Calls for Accountability

Independent journalist Basil “BZWatchdog” Zangare has released video and call audio of the arrest of activist Angel Moses, alleging misconduct by an Appleton City Police Department supervisor. The footage was posted Sept. 18 to BZWATCHDOG’s Facebook page and premiered in full on the Kansas City Accountability YouTube channel. Zangare identified the supervisor as Assistant Chief

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All dressed up and plenty of places to go

CONSTITUTION WEEK – Pat Taylor, member of the Elizabeth Carey DAR Chapter, was at the El Dorado Springs City Council meeting on Monday to start the celebration of Constitution Week and to kick off America’s 250 Birthday. She was presented a framed plaque sent by State Senator Sandy Crawford and awarded by Mayor Nathan Murrell.

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Phone pouches are working

During the Sept 11 School Board meeting High School Principal David Rotert mentioned the success of using the phone pouches for students. He highlighted the success by mentioning that the cafeteria was actually noisy- students communicating with each other without their phones. Assistant Superintendent Tracy Barger said that the school was making progress in their

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Elevate to Rock Bottom

Elevate Cedar County, the organization that started several months ago, has changed their name to Rock Bottom Missions due to the cost of becoming affiliated with the Elevate program. Angie Williams with the group was at City Council meeting on Monday, Sept. 15. She said the group appreciated the city allowing them to use the

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Celebrating Constitution Week: September 17-23

Presented by Elizabeth Carey DAR Chapter Thrty-three amendments to Constitution have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4,1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution. The first ten

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MoDOT Project Competing for National Award

The Missouri Department of Transportation’s Focus on Bridges program has advanced as a finalist in the 2025 America’s Transportation Awards competition. The project, which took first place in the regional competition, is now in the running for the top two prizes: the Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award, the latter of which is determined

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Camp Galilee to celebrate 70 years

Camp Galilee will celebrate their 70th Birthday this Saturday with a Car Show at 899 E. Martin in El Dorado Springs. What is now known as Camp Galilee and Lake Galilee started in the 1890’s as Wonder City Lake. The lake and property had several owners until 1950 when the Southwest Missouri Conference of the

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Schell City Royalty

154 YEARS IN SCHELL CITY – The Schell City Fall Festival crowned their royalty on Friday. Pictured from left: King Gavin Crocker, Queen Brooke Clements, Prince Westin Prough, Princess Sadie Ensor, Lil Princess Hailey Hunt and Lil Prince Kolt Haddix. The parade on Saturday featured Grand Marshalls, Poppa Larry & Granny Jo

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