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The Walker Rural Fire Department will hold their annual chili and soup supper stating a 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan 11, at the Walker Fire Barn on Hwy C. The menu includes chili and soups, dessert, iced tea, lemonade and coffee. Please give what you can and help the fire department. A donation box will

On Tuesday night, Dec. 31, the Mo-Kan Square Dancers will be holding a New Year’s Eve Dance with Jay Wright calling. This will be held from 9 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. in the Home Ec Building at the Vernon County Fairgrounds, Nevada. Admission is $5 per adult dancer and all dancers and interested persons are

Unless you want to drive all the way to St. Louis, there doesn’t appear to be any sites in the Tri-County area to drop off used Christmas trees. The MDC office in El Dorado Springs said that Schell-Osage is not accepting trees this year because of the construction. The Corps office in Stockton did not

The Tri-County Baptist Group will hold its regular Fifth Sunday service on Sunday, Dec. 29, at True Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Springfield. After Sunday School at 10 a.m., the morning service will begin at 11 am. with preaching by Bro. Dewayne Bordette. After a basket dinner and a business meeting, the afternoon sermon will

Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church and their pastor, Brother Billon Legan, at 22496 E. 480 Rd., in Humansville, will host Cedar County Fifth Sunday services. The schedule is as follows: Friday night, Dec. 27, at 7 p.m. the devotional will be given by Brother Haden Stevens and sermon by Brother Mike Owen with Brother Ron

The Cedar County Ambulance District Board is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23, in the district headquarters building at 319 Englewood, Stockton. There is no unfinished business  and no new business on the agenda.

All former employees of Nelly Don, Junior House and JH Collectibles are invited to a Dutch Treat breakfast at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the 54 Café in Nevada.

If you’ve ever wondered how a chunk of wood can be turned into a work of art, plan to be at the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Springfield Conservation Nature Center on Dec. 28 On that date, the Southern Missouri Woodcarving Artists will share the techniques of their craft at the “Nature Art: Intro to

On Friday, December 20 the Mo-Kan Square Dancers are holding their Christmas dance with Jay Wright calling. This will be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the Home Ec Building at the Vernon County Fairgrounds, Nevada. Admission is $5 per dancer.   All dancers and interested persons are invited to attend. For more information

Free program will feature a chance to get up-close views of live snakes. Snakes are among Missouri’s most misunderstood animals. That’s unfortunate because underneath a snake’s frightful reputation is an animal that performs valuable pest-control services for humans and, with the exception of a few venomous species, is relatively harmless. People can learn more about