Students and faculty in four schools and one university, as well as residents of one southwest Missouri community, will soon have a safe place to shelter from dangerous Missouri weather.
Fairview City Council members approved a single hauler for waste disposal for Fairview residents Tuesday, going with GDSI trash services.
The earliest memory Lindy Lombard has of Wheaton’s annual summer barbecue is wrapping potatoes in tin foil.
A fundraiser to benefit a local historical society will be held this Saturday.
The Spring Fling, consisting of house and garden plant sales, craft sales, and gospel and bluegrass singing, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Ozark Street in Stella.
Rebecca Peterson wants her children to be safe.
So on Saturday, she took two of her children, Joey, 15, and Katie, 11, to Missouri Child Identification Program (MoChip), hosted by Wheaton’s Masonic Comfort Lodge 533.
Editor’s Note: The following is the second part of the East Newton R-6 School Board candidate forum, which was held on Monday at East Newton High School.
The school board candidates in attendance were Doug Harper, Tal Clubbs, incumbent Lance Renner, incumbent Terry Clarkson, Rusty Deman and write-in candidate Lawrence Frencken. Candidate Martin Lindstedt was not at the forum.
The Neosho Daily News asked a couple of questions to each of the candidates. Here are their responses.
Six of the seven East Newton R-6 School Board candidates and two of the four Granby mayor candidates answered various questions during a candidate forum Monday night at East Newton High School.
Equipped with helmets, students in East Newton High School’s Class of 2011, along with the East Newton School District faculty and administration, participated in a donkey basketball at the high school gym Monday night.
The Fairview City Council set a date for a chicken coop, located on the property of Teresa Loncarich, 101 Montgomery St., to be moved.
The 2nd annual Jane Vanslyke 3-on-3 baseball tournament will be held beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 19, at the East Newton High School gymnasium. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 9:30 a.m., with tournament play starting at 10 a.m. The cost is $30 per team, with a maximum of four players per team. Players may only play with one team. There will be two divisions, men’s and women’s and pre-high school. All proceeds will benefit the Mark Vanslyke family. Mark’s wife, Jane, has been battling cancer since August 2010. To register early, contact Jake Holt at 417-438-3789 or e-mail at holtj@mail.enr6.k12.mo.us. Please make checks payable to East Newton FCA.
Although the district’s high school bus barn collapsed, East Newton R-6 bus routes will not suffer.
Heavy snow accumulation has caused the cave in of two buildings at the Newton County Fairgrounds.
Due to the possibility of more winter weather coming in, the Fairview City Council has moved tonight’s meeting to 7 p.m. Feb. 15, at the city hall.
Even though most roads in Neosho and the surrounding area are snow-covered still, the Neosho Daily News will attempt to deliver to as many homes as safely possible Friday afternoon.
Due to delivery issues of the print edition of the Neosho Daily News in relation to the winter storm, the newspaper has made its E-Edition free to the public.
The E-Editions for both Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 1 and Feb. 2, are now available.
Click on this link to go to the E-Edition page: http://neoshodailynews.mo.newsmemory.com/
The Neosho Daily News would love to share your Blizzard 2011 photos with our readers. E-mail photos to reporter1@neoshodailynews.com for possible publication online and in print.
Starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, the annual Festival of Eagles in Stella will commence at Veteran’s Park.
For parents who are wondering if their children will have school either tomorrow or any other day of the year due to weather, area school districts have a way to contact them.
Van Buren went on runs of 6-0 and 10-0 in the first quarter alone and dominated East Newton 56-23 in the first round of the Neosho Holiday Classic Monday morning.
Karen Mason, a family and consumer sciences teacher at East Newton High School, was inducted into the Family and Consumer Sciences Roll of Honor on Dec. 3 in Las Vegas, Nev., at the annual Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) convention.
