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The Willow Springs Public Library is having a Spring Book Sale! All month long in April you can pick up a whole bag of books and DVDs for $5.00. We have books on Quilting, Crafts and Fabric Arts, Mysteries, Westerns, True Crime, Children's books, General Fiction, and much more! You'll also find...
Dear Constituents,
We are now more than halfway through the legislative session, and things are moving rapidly. In the first ten weeks of session, the House passed over 100 bills for the Senate to consider. A handful of bills have been Truly Agreed and Finally Passed, as well, and await the...
During this year's Bear-ly Spring Festival, the Willow Springs Historical & Genealogical Society Museum will be open and ready for visitors throughout the day on Saturday, April 12 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
The museum is located at 211 N. Harris Street, just north of the 4-way stop and...
I have an extensive collection of old magazines and I thought some readers might enjoy this ancient story on turkey hunting. It was entitled "The Gentle Art of Turkey Hunting" and appeared in a 1914 magazine called Forest and Stream.
"The wild turkey is probably the wariest bird in the...
THUMBS UP to Ken Horgan for picking up all the trash on the five-mile stretch of NN Highway!
THUMBS DOWN to anyone who decides to burn right now. Unless you’re willing to join a local fire department, don’t light it!
THUMBS DOWN to “No Kings” protesters. Newsflash: America hasn’t had...
To the Editor,
This month, many Mountain View residents were charged late fees on their utility bills — not because we paid late, but because the bills did not reach us until the day before they were due.
According to our local post office (65548), the city’s February billing was...
Dear Editor,
As a personal object lesson, I will now share a tragic tale based on 2 Thessalonians 2:12 "That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Many years ago, I had a great-aunt by a second marriage who had been born in the old...
Greetings Friends of the 155th District!
This week the legislature is spending time back in our districts rather than in Jefferson City, giving us the opportunity to meet with and represent the people of the 155th District closer to home. If you would like to meet with me while I’m in the...
What Happened This Week at the Capitol
This week at the Missouri State Capitol, the House of Representatives continued advancing legislation focused on government accountability, public safety, education transparency, and economic stability for Missouri families. Lawmakers debated and...
All through the fall hunting season, those of us who love to hunt waterfowl prayed for rain. The one thing you need for great duck hunting is plenty of water, and we just didn't have it. It is unbelievable that in surveying dozens of ponds in the Ozarks I never saw a mallard or even a gadwall....