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SPRINGFIELD (July 29) – The Springfield Art Museum is pleased to announce an expansive outdoor sculpture installation with Kansas City artist Shawn Bitters, in collaboration with the Springfield-Greene County Park Board. Burn Out, which was recently featured in Open Spaces Kansas City, was installed on the Museum’s grounds and throughout nearby Phelps Grove Park on…

• Nighttime lane closings on Route 65 for shoulder paving/barrier wall construction in median Work Scheduled: • Paving shoulders and building median barrier wall in Route 65 median between a point south of Evans Road and Christian County Route CC/J • Building approach pavement and other work on widened portion of southbound Route 65 Farmers…

Trent McBride of Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 1218 in Willow Springs, Missouri, has passed his private pilot checkride, becoming the first recipient of the Ray Aviation Scholarship program to accomplish the goal. Trent, above, facilitated his flight training through the Ozark Aviators Flying Club, a club comprised by members of EAA Chapter 1218. Trent…

If you happened to notice a flurry of activity recently taking place in downtown Ava, in the gazebo in the center of the square, you may have wondered what was going on. It was announced this week, the undertaking was an endeavor facilitated by several members of the Ava Citizens Action League, and the task,…

Tomato plant or tomato trees? That is the question. Tommy and Sarah Peterson are no strangers to planting a few plants each year at their home outside the city limits in Ava above Sutton’s Pond. However, this year has proved to be a record setting year for growing plants for them. Sarah is the agriculture…

Recently, Deana Parsick, owner of Tax Diva, in Ava, Missouri, above left, had the opportunity to meet IRS Commissioner Charles Retting, right, during a private invitation-only reception. Held in Chicago, Parsick was attending an educational tax seminar that coincided with the special reception.   Parsick said “this is one of those cool moments in a…

MDC Photo Mitchell Dering of Wappapello holds the seventh state record fish of 2019 – a 6-pound, 2-ounce spotted gar he caught July 5 on the St. Francis River. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces that Mitchell Dering of Wappapello is the new state-record-holder for spotted gar. Dering caught a…

Unofficially, it appears Ava R-I grads broke the record.   The reunion idea was first born in 2017 during an Ava – Mountain Grove championship game when   two classmates, Michael Caudill and Chad Williams, began talking about hosting their own graduating class reunion.   Soon thereafter, however, the reunion notion blossomed. As reunion talk…

USDA Photo Tommy and Sarah Peterson aren’t the first ones to make tomato news in Ava. From record crops to fires to political drama to train accidents, the  ‘not a vegetable but don’t put it in a fruit salad’ tomato has graced the pages of the Herald in several decades. by Michael Boyink / [email protected] It’s been…