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Texas County Memorial Hospital has signed a three-year contract with Sabera Shabnam, MD, a family medicine physician, board members heard at their monthly meeting on Tuesday.
Shabnam will join the TCMH medical staff as a part-time hospitalist beginning in July, providing care for patients...
About 60 local Democrats gathered Saturday at the Yellow House Community Arts Center in West Plains to welcome Missouri Democratic Party vice-chair Yvonne Reeves-Chong; MDC Secretary and Chairman of the Rural Caucus, Joshua Dunne; and 8th District Committee Chair, Randi McCallian.
The...
Members of the IAM Local 2782 machinists’ union have been in a labor dispute with their employer, Leonardo DRS, of West Plains, since May 1. Howell County News has been in contact with members of the union since April 25. IAM Local 2782 distributed a press release on May 11 calling the dispute, “...
American Legion Post 384 held its annual Memorial Day program at the Willow Springs City Cemetery on Memorial Day. The speaker was retired Marine GySgt Tony Buster and Logan Mullins played Taps.
It was a busy community service weekend for Boy Scouts of Troop 160. On Friday night, the scouts gathered at Oak Lawn Cemetery in West Plains with area veterans, community leaders, and other local volunteers to place small US flags on every veteran grave site in the cemetery.
At 6:00 a.m...
Braden and Makayla Marriott of Mountain View, Mo., are the parents of a baby girl, Eden James Marriott. She was born April 20, 2026, at 7:46 a.m. at Ozarks Healthcare. She weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces and was 20 and 1/2 inches long. Her siblings are Whitley, 5, and Sloan, 3. Her grandparents are...
The Howell County Commission received and is reviewing architectural bids for the new justice center or jail facility. Four architectural firms: HMN Architects, Elevatus Architects, HOK Architects, and N·FORM Architects placed bids, opened during the commission meeting on May 21.
The bids...
Any lingering hope of a quick repair to the pool facilities and re-opening this summer evaporated with the scheduling of the first specialized work crews who will diagnose the problem that is causing the main pool to lose more than 20,000 gallons overnight.
Originally expected to be in...
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has no plans to call a special session to suspend the state’s motor fuel tax, the governor’s office told Howell County News Friday. Howell County’s representative in the Missouri House, Lisa Durnell (R-Willow Springs) announced May 19 she was joining with Rep. Tricia...
For eight months, the Willow Springs School District, and the community it serves, has known that significant cuts to the staff were coming. Due to factors outside the district’s control, however, plans to budget for rebuilding cash reserves gave way to the need to balance a budget funded with...