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The Mountain View Garden Club has chosen the New Covenant Ministries Church on East Fifth Street as the September Yard of the Month. The main focus of attention is the island planting featuring a crabapple tree, a bright pink blooming crepe myrtle shrub surrounded by white flowers of hostas and...
State Rep. David Evans (R-West Plains) presented officials with Ozark Action, Inc. (OAI) and the local Head Start program with copies of legislation that were passed during this most recent session in Jefferson City and signed by Gov. Mike Parson.
Two of the pieces of legislation presented to...
The City of West Plains, in cooperation with the West Plains Giving Tree group, will be removing the food pantry next to the People’s Park Pavilion due, in part, to an increase in vandalism and criminal activity at the pavilion.
The two groups, along with any interested organizations and...
Autumn Medcalf, 31, of Willow Springs, was airlifted from the scene of a crash on September 2 at 11:10 p.m. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Medcalf crossed the center line on Highway 137 six miles north of Willow Springs and hit a tree. There were no passengers in her car, and no...
According to a statement published by the City of Willow Springs, equipment failure will delay an ongoing overlay project on Welch Dr.
“In the process of overlay...the grader broke a tie rod and crews were unable to complete the job. Crews are doing their best with the situation to spread it...
Work is underway to repair and refresh the exterior of the West Plains Civic Center. The exterior of the building uses an Exterior Insulation and Finish System, commonly referred to as EIFS.
EIFS is an exterior wall cladding that utilizes rigid insulation boards on the exterior of the wall...
At the regular monthly meeting of the Willow Springs City Council, Mayor Brooke Fair and the Board of Aldermen learned that the City has been awarded a FEMA grant for the purpose of placing a storm siren at the South Junction. City Administrator Beverly Hicks told Council that the siren is...
Frequent telephone issues prompted Willow Springs City Administrator Beverly Hicks to update on the struggles employees have had communicating with citizens by phone. Several times in recent months, the phone system has malfunctioned or stopped receiving calls altogether. The current phone system...
The Mountain View City Council met in special session on Wednesday, September 1 to vote on the proposed $0.00 dollar city personal property tax levy. This second vote was a procedural correction whose outcome was the same as the invalid vote that took place in July. The special session and vote...
The last week of July over twenty area aviation enthusiasts and Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 1218 members attended the EAA’s AirVenture, Oshkosh 2021 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It is billed as the world’s largest airshow and lived up to the name. There were over ten thousand...