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On Feb. 26, 2025, a Howell County grand jury indicted Donald A. Macias, 47, of West Plains, on ten separate charges. This month, Macias entered an Alford plea of guilty, and the state agreed to drop nine of those charges.
Under the plea agreement dated January 5, Macias is guilty of one...
Start on time; end on time, and have something of value in between. Seeking to follow this advice, a motto of Willow Springs’ Wendell Bailey, a crowd of nearly a hundred gathered on January 2 to dedicate a Main Street park in his honor.
Bailey has represented Willow Springs in Jefferson...
Tristan Bradley, of Willow Springs, is the Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Great Christmas Giveaway! Bradley’s purchase at Friga Tire gave her two winning ticket numbers. She won both the $500 Grand Prize and the Week Five $50 prize.
With her winnings, she went straight back to Friga Tire...
Monday, January 5 was not a jolt to back to workaday reality for most employees of Camcorps in Willow Springs. Instead, the first weekday after the holidays saw an as-yet-unconfirmed number of terminations at Camcorp, owned by Austrian conglomerate The Scheuch Group. Initial reports from former...
The City of Mtn. View hosted the Wreaths Across America on Saturday, Dec. 13 at the Veterans Cemetery. The event was held in conjunction with the national event that was observed at 11:00 a.m. all across the nation. The event honors all of the U.S. military veterans that have passed on.
The...
With an abundance of dazzling displays throughout town, judges faced a true challenge this year, according to an announcement from the Willow Springs Chamber of Commerce. "The level of participation and attention to detail made selecting winners no easy task," says the release.
Results...
The Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III School District superintendent submitted a letter of retirement to the school board. Following the regular meeting on Thursday, Dec. 18 at the Liberty Middle School Media Center shortly before Christmas break, a closed session vote accepted Tharp's intended...
For the second year, the Mountain View Public Library held their Christmas Tree Gala. The library lets various businesses, clubs, and community members put up Christmas Trees in the library. People come in and vote on their favorite one by placing a dollar in a jar. The money is used towards the...
A downtown Willow Springs park will be dedicated to Wendell Bailey on Friday, January 2 at 2:00 p.m. The park, known currently as Star Park, is adjacent to the Historic Star Theatre. The park is the property of the Willow Springs Community Foundation and features a willow tree planted by Bailey...
A “rogue squirrel,” caused a Christmas-morning power outage in West Plains, according to Howell County Sherriff Matt Roberts. The widespread outage included power to the Howell County Sheriff’s Office. For about 30 minutes, the facility was fully without power and phone lines.
According to...