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Douglas County Community Foundation Offers Up To $10K for Local Health-Related Projects
Have a health-related project in mind for Douglas County, but need some funding to get off the ground? The Douglas County Community Foundation (DCCF) is making $10,000 in grants available for local health related projects. The funds came to DCCF via the Community Foundation of the Ozarks and Missouri Foundation for Health. They awarded $10,000…
Read MoreHey Readers: Help Us Tell The Positive Stories
by Michael Boyink / [email protected] Empty shelves. Canceled events. Restricted access. Online classes. Working from home. Our world has shifted in the past two weeks – more than at any time in recent history. As a local news source, it puts us in a difficult spot. How do we continue to perform our mission of being…
Read MoreBypassing Ava: Sales Receipts Go Up
(Editors Note: This article is reprinted from the 1963 Missouri State Highway Commission Annual Report, investigating how the Route 5 bypass had affected Ava. A block south of the square on Old 5 Fred Lethco added his view of the new highway. Lethco is mayor of Ava and owner of Lethco Sales Company, selling trucks…
Read MoreCameras Continue to Divide Board and Drivers
By Michael Boyink / [email protected] The Ava R-1 School District and the Ava School Bus Route Owners Association continue to be at odds over installation of school-owned security cameras on privately-owned contracted school buses. The board communicated it’s desire for the cameras to the bus drivers via registered letters. The Herald has obtained copies of those…
Read MoreBypassing Ava: The Trade Territory Spreads Out
(Reprinted from the 1963 Missouri Highway Commission Annual Report, seeing how Ava survived after the Highway 5 bypass was put in.) Off the square a couple of blocks to the west, at 318 West Washington Avenue, is the Ava Lumber Company, a rambling white frame building with a lumber yard’s usual bins and racks stretching…
Read MoreUnofficial: Douglas County Favors Trump
by Michael Boyink / [email protected] (Unofficial) results from Tuesday’s Presidential Preference Primary are in, and according to County Clerk Karry Davis, Douglas County liked incumbent Donald Trump for president. 1849 total ballots were cast, 1291 (70% of the total) in favor of Trump. The second-place vote-getter was Democrat Joe Biden, with 319 votes (17% of the…
Read MoreBypassing Ava: He’s Glad to Trade for Ava Life
(Reprinted from the 1963 Missouri Highway Commission Annual Report) Another situation has improved, though. That’s the time that Lou Prince spends between office and home. Lou Prince recently was promoted to superintendent of Rawlings’ Ava plant and moved to Ava from Bellefontaine Neighbors, a St. Louis suburb. Prince has moved his family into a new…
Read MoreJeepers Creepers
by Michael Boyink / [email protected] If you were around Walmart or the Ava square last Saturday, you might have seen them. A whole lot of Jeeps, all in a row. They came from Ozark. From Strafford, from Springfield, and from Ava. Organized on Facebook, the event was expected to draw 5 or 10 Jeeps. 31 showed…
Read MoreEPA Releases List of Disinfectants to Use Against COVID-19
On Thursday, Mar. 5, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a list of EPA-registered disinfectant products that have qualified for use against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. “Using the correct disinfectant is an important part of preventing and reducing the spread of illnesses along with other…
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