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Tax increase proposed by board of Neosho-Newton County Library
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:49:05 -0800
The board of the Neosho-Newton County Library has decided to place a 15-cent levy increase on a special election ballot in June. The proceeds would be used to pay for a $7 million expansion of the library’s Neosho quarters through a lease-purchase approach to financing. The 15 cents would represent a 150 percent increase from the library’s current 10-cent operating levy.
CID gets commission nod
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:25:42 -0800
Newton County Commissioners approved the creation of a Community Improvement District (CID) along Missouri Highway 166 in the northwest corner of Newton County at their weekly business meeting last Thursday.
Planned New-Mac Power Outage
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:52:59 -0800
Some New-Mac customers in Newton County will be without power tomorrow.
A Local Man Faces Additional Charges After Finding Meth in His Vehicle.
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:38:04 -0800
A Galena man faces additional charges after authorities say he tried to take meth into the Jasper County Jail.
Virgil Skinner-obit
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:20:45 -0800
Virgil Carter Skinner, 86, of Sherwood, died Friday, February 17, 2012. He was born in Hope on June 6, 1926, to Sid and Zannie Mae Skinner. He was a WWII veteran and retired from the Missouri/Union Pacific Railroad in North Little Rock, after 39 years as a locomotive engineer.
Susan Redden: Missouri primary: costly, curious, inconsequential
Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:54:12 -0800
Missouri’s presidential preference primary, which was strange from the start, is still producing curiosities.
Oklahoma Man Waives Hearing In Missouri Abduction Case
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:40:11 -0800
A Nowata County man charged in connection with the December 2011 kidnapping and assault of two Joplin, Missouri women has waived his preliminary hearing and has been bound over for trial.
Crash, drowning still being investigated
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:51:25 -0800
The Newton County Sheriff’s Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol continue to investigate the death of a Granby woman who drowned after the car she was in veered off of a Newton County roadway and overturned in Shoal Creek.
Students at MSSU Get a Hands on Lesson of the Human Body
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:38:09 -0800
Missouri Southern professors opened their doors to the public this afternoon to show off their latest laboratories.
Sports calendar
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:44:32 -0800
This week's area events.