Take a trip back in time, as children will have the opportunity to make corn husk dolls, just like other children did in the early days of American history.
The stage will be set with a barn-like scene, as the Missouri Hayride band from Branson will perform from 6-8 p.m. this coming Saturday at the Civic.
Steve Watkins says police officers just want to get home safely. That’s one of the reasons he and a fellow officer, Brian Misner, became interested in learning mixed martial arts.
As patrons crossed the Morse Park bridge across from the baseball fields Saturday, they were transported into Drogheda, Ireland of 1510.
Summer theatre closes this week at Crowder College with a look at the heart and fiber of American women in “Steel Magnolias.”
Courtney Olsen didn’t think she was going to win.
The Racine singer signed up for Newton County Fair Idol Challenge, sang her set early in the competition, got a funnel cake for dinner and then watched the rest of the competition from the back bleachers.
Minutes before dress rehearsal of his first full-length play, Joe McNary looks calm.
The cast puts their final touches on their wardrobe as McNary, standing in a backstage room filled with props and scenery, talks about his play “Stage Door Johnny.” A large prop tank sits nearby and he points out the missing tread on the far side. It’s all part of the plan to take the audience where they don’t usually go, giving them abackdoor peek into what goes into a production.
A Crowder College Theatre Department production hopes to entertain and impart a life lesson to their audiences during this week’s production of “Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music.”
On Saturday, Texas country mainstay Brandon Rhyder will be performing at Lucky Maggie’s, 1630 Hwy. 59, Diamond.
In just a few short months, Neosho will see a new festival.
Some 30 models, high schoolers from Neosho, Seneca and local women, will model 40 looks from casual to prom dresses during the choreographed Valentine’s fashion show.
A scrapbooking crop event on Saturday will help fund an area support group for mothers.
The Neosho Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) chapter will host a 12-hour crop at Calvary of Neosho to help fund the group’s activities. Twice a month during the school year, they meet for a time of fellowship, some activities, brunch and either a speaker or a video devotion on topics from finance to women’s health.
For members of the Neosho High School cheerleading squad, most of the last cheer season has been focused around getting to the Auto Zone Liberty Bowl.
There have been the games and the practices and all their standard activities, but in addition to that, they have been running fundraisers since summer.
In late May, cheer coach Angela McCauley found out her team had been nominated for the honor. In mid-June, the school board cleared them for the trip and in July, they started a series of fundraising activities. They had a dunk tank at the fair, washed windows, sold brown bag lunches, poinsettias and mums, raising more than $12,000 toward the trip. Each girl invested about 100 hours in fundraising activities to go on the trip, McCauley said, and the parents helped keep everything organized from bookkeeping to staffing the different events.
E-mail your Letters to Santa Claus to rrogers@neoshodailynews.com, by Sunday, Dec. 20, for publication in our Wednesday, Dec. 23, edition. Please keep letters 150 words or less.
Crowder College is inviting the community to the sixth annual traditional music service, “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.”
Nearly 200 Crowder College staff and students bought tickets weeks earlier for the chance to walk the red carpet and watch "New Moon" with their friends and classmates.
The Neosho Daily News is planning to publish a collection of recipes for a Holiday Cookbook, and is asking readers to submit recipes to be published. Please e-mail your favorite recipe(s) to customercare@neoshodailynews.com no later than Friday, Oct. 30. In the e-mail, please include the full recipe(s), and the person responsible for it, and the town in which they reside. Thank you.
The Neosho Daily News is planning to publish reader-submitted photos of fall scenes in the Sunday, Nov. 1 edition of its newspaper. The paper is asking readers to submit photos of the following: fall colors in the landscape, fall or Halloween decorations at your home, your family enjoying a night of pumpkin carvning, or your family's trip to a pumpkin patch or corn maze. E-mail these great fall photos to rrogers@neoshodailynews.com no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, to be included in this special photo spread. Please include the names of those pictured, the town in which they reside, and a few details about the photograph.
Among the crowd during the midnight showing of “New Moon” at the Neosho Cinema 6 B&B Theatres was a group of Central Elementary teachers were dressed in black shirts.
