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By Michael Boyink In a logic class, an instructor might say two events are “mutually exclusive” if they cannot both occur at the same time. If you toss a coin, you get either heads or tails. If your car dies in the middle of a Douglas County county road water crossing, you either have to…

A local resident recently notified the Herald of a letter they received at the first of the year from a Colorado company offering to purchase their land in Douglas County.   The letter states “ We would like to purchase your land in Douglas County, Mo. as referenced in the enclosed Purchase Agreement.  The source…

Becky Gann (right), Missouri Ozarks Community Health Network Director and Valerie Reese(left), Douglas County Health Department Administrator, both a member of the Douglas County Drug Task Force Team in collaboration with CHART and Community Partnerships of the Ozarks gave a presentation to representatives from the Ava, Plainview and Skyline schools about the risks and dangers…

The Sunshine Law is important.  Not just for the media and our requests for files and records, but most importantly, for the public and their right to access records as well.  Being informed about government proceedings and communications is a right determined by law. In Missouri, the Sunshine Law was first introduced in 1973, and…

By Michael Boyink We were never as good at hiking as we wanted to be.  We had friends that could do 15 miles in a day.  With their young kids. They’d come back exuberant and glowing with praise about the trail. Their cameras would be loaded up with print-worthy landscape photos that we just couldn’t…

By Michael Boyink The just-opened Ava TrueView Theater is but the latest in a long history of movie theaters in Ava. One of the earliest was opened in approximately 1907 and was located on Route 14, just east of the square, past the County Defender’s office on the north side of the road (in the…

Ava Matriculates First Graduates from Training Course That Includes Online Training for Firefighters

Grants from the MFA Oil Foundation were recently awarded to two local fire departments to help with equipment purchases.  The presentation to the Eastern Douglas County Volunteer Fire Department (EDCVFD) is shown above, from left, Glen Cope, MFA Oil Board; Chief Chris Hammett and Captain Nikki Hammett, with Eastern Douglas County; Denis Dreiling, Area Manager,…

Boy Scout Troop 68 has six scout members who have recently obtained the rank of Eagle Scout.  An Eagle Court of Honor will be held February 13, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints building in Ava located at 910 Shull Avenue. The public is urged to attend and…