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A 20-year-old Mountain View remains in jail after beating a woman while she was holding a child. Randy Lee Hale, III is accused of forcing his way into a residence on May 7 and assaulting the mother of his child before forcibly ripping the baby from her arms. When Officer Koleman McDaniel of the...
Ozarks Healthcare recognized Michelle Ferguson, RN, of its Medical/Surgical (Med/Surg) Department as the most recent recipient of the DAISY (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The award was presented during National Nurses Week in honor of Ferguson’s...
Analysis from University of Missouri Extension has placed Missouri as the 19th-most-populous state in the U.S. as of 2024, with 6.25 million residents.
In a recent Missouri Economy Indicator brief from MU Extension's Exceed program, researchers explored population and migration dynamics...
On April 9 the Mountain View Garden Club celebrated Arbor Day with fifth grade students at Mountain View Elementary. Each year the staff at the Missouri Department of Conservation Twin Pines Education Center, located in Winona, Mo., prepare and deliver 100 native trees to the school to be given...
Each month of the growing season, The Mountain View Garden Club has judges who travel the city searching for the yard that begs to be visited and chosen as the current Yard of the Month. This month, the yard and patio belongs to Petra Stoops at 307 N. Marr Street.
Her yard and flower beds...
The grand prize winner of the Fifth Annual Morel Mushroom Photo Contest is Theresa Turner. Her photo of more than thirty mushrooms (found all in one day) is the editor’s pick this year!
Our runner up is Lee Skinner’s photo of five yellow morels on a wood surface.
Each of these...
The Heart of the Ozarks Fair will be held Tuesday, June 3 through Saturday, June 7 at the Heart of the Ozarks Fairgrounds on North Highway 63 in West Plains, Mo. The fair features entertainment, carnival rides, food vendors; livestock, agriculture, and fine arts shows.
There is no...
The Gamma Phi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma met at Pizza Americana, Willow Springs, Mo., on April 12. Chapter president Faye Wiersema opened the meeting followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
Highlights from the business meeting were reports from the secretary and treasurer, plus a reminder to...
There’s a new face in the Willow Springs Post Office. Tony Danford began his tenure as postmaster on May 5. He says he hopes to retire there.
Danford’s career with the United States Post Office began in Pottersville eight years ago. He reports he served two years as a clerk, two years as a...
Mountain View can proudly say that it has the area's first female DRE. What is a DRE? A DRE is a Drug Recognition Expert-- a police officer who is trained to recognize impairment in drivers under the influence. According to Mountain View Chief of Police James Perkins, there are roughly 14,000 law...