October 11, 2026
Editor: We have known that Pipestone Systems, a CAFO corporation incorporated in Pipestone, MN, is targeting Missouri to build more hog CAFOs, because the concentration of hogs in Minnesota and Iowa created many livestock disease problems. They said publicly that they are targeting Missouri because we have clean water without animal diseases. They are attempting
Editor: After looking at the 2019 Cedar County Financial Statement, it is obvious that the Court House being in Stockton is an asset for your town. That is good for your community. Good payrolls to employees, many from Stockton and the trade you do with local businesses helps your town thrive. All Cedar County
In October of 2019, I spent three weeks in Cedar County Memorial Hospital’s swing bed program. I had the best care I could have ever hope for. Any time I needed help, I could ring for assistance and someone would be there shortly. I was so grateful to have a hospital like CCMH in my
Editor: As a PAR driver I drove a senior to get eye surgery. While at the Hospital in ElDo I was totally impressed with the medical facility there. While talking to a staff member, she told me of the many lives they save. Sometime ago a great grandson had trouble breathing, and the Hospital at
Editor, I want to ask readers to consider providing a home to children in our community who are in need. After careful consideration, my husband Rick and I have opened our home to children in the foster care system. Recently we were asked to take our first child, a teenage boy, for a long weekend.
Editor: My husband and I moved to El Dorado Springs about a year and half ago. Part of the reason we chose to settle in this area is because of the natural beauty here with the hills, lakes, rivers and open lands. Unfortunately, the beauty of this community is severely blemished by trash in the
Editor: Just last year I was attending the funeral of a longtime friend when I was stricken with abdominal pain that became increasingly intense requiring me to take myself to the nearest Emergency Room for treatment. I was diagnosed with “gas” – given medication and sent home. That’s all they did. Driving home, I continued
Editor: Shout out to Cedar County Memorial Hospital. As many of you know I was hospitalized last weekend. After working all week with what I thought was a cold, I was hospitalized with a 103.7 temperature, tested positive for influenza B, double pneumonia and a low oxygen level. I had never had a need to
Editor: Joe Biden is right. We are in a battle for the soul of our nation. De we move back to the godly principals that this country was founded upon or toward the satanic influence which took root in some of our institutions of higher learning and then spread throughout our country? On abortion: Do
Editor: Dear Governor Parson and Missouri Citizens, I want to ask you to consider how we can protect our property rights, natural resources, and right t earn a living in Missouri. Some factory farms have driven people off their land by polluting their water, soil, and air. They have controlled prices so that smaller producers
