The winter sports season for Ash Grove tipped off at home as both Ash Grove boys’ and girls’ basketball teams opened their schedules against a...

On the schedule this week are the 2025 State Football Title Games in St. Joseph, Missouri. Of interest in 8-man play Worth County edged Archie...

Where’s My BritchesA  mishap? Sounds phony? Doesn’t it? Yet a single mishap can be true. How do I know this? I fell from bed last night into a grand mishap. My poor...

December can be the busiest month of year with school programs, church programs, ball games, parades, taxes to pay, filing for local offices plus Christmas...

This time of year is thankfully, blessed and also, sad and lonely as we have one missing at the table of our life.Got our bathroom up and running again. Kim got my new...

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. It is a blessing to be part of a community that provides fellowship and food for others who need a place to gather.Recently I have...

Birthdays: December 6th-Rick Anderson, Gabby Nicole 12, Monte Gladden 64 and Myra McCorkill 72; 7th-Debby Thompson, Jimmy Shirk, Lucy Poirot 13, Haley Shorter 21, Ema...

Our one room schoolhouse teacher mother loved hearing a good speaker. She would take notes on what she found enlightening, interesting, or useful on anything available from...

Ona Marie Cruts, age 84, of Mt. Vernon, Missouri, passed away at 7:44 a.m. on Thursday, November 27, 2025, at Cox South Hospital in Springfield,...

Gary Busselman, entered into the presence of the Lord on Saturday, November 22, 2025 in his home in Nixa, Missouri. Born on October 30, 1955, in...

The Everton Lady Tigers brought home third place in the Verona Tip Off Classic held November 22-26. The Lady Tigers fought hard and overcame a...

The 9th Annual Kelley and Friends Community Thanksgiving was held on Thursday, November 27, at Main Street Baptist Church in Greenfield,...

Football season is over for Lockwood by falling to Archie at Lockwood 62-58. Lamar lost in Class 2 to Liberty. Basketball games were played...

Thanksgiving is upon us. The family gatherings, the food, the football games, the traveling to and from places. It’s a lot of fun once it’s put together, but so much goes...

“Git-er done!” This should be a national saying that represents the spirit of our nation.  There is another old saying that comes out of our colonial north East which is...