For the BHS top tennis doubles team, it took three years. Senior, Kami Bryan and junior, Jillian Horner won three District Championships. They lost in the finals of State Doubles last year. more

Senior women’s soccer player Tamerra Gantt earned a Third-Team All-GLVC honor, as announced by the conference office Tuesday, Nov. 11. She is the second player to earn this honor for the program and first since 2021. more

The SBU men’s basketball team ended their opening weekend of play with a win over Ohio Dominican University. Holding the lead for the majority of the second half, they finished with a narrow 56-54 win moving to 1-1 on the season. more

Owen Thiessen son of Christi and David Thiessen and Hannah Watkins daughter of Amanda and Brent Watkins have been chosen Rotary Students for the month of November. more

Bolivar High School welcomed 300 senior citizens from the community for an evening of food, music, and theatre during its annual Senior Citizen Night on Thursday, Nov. 6. more

Saturday, Nov. 22 more

On Saturday, Nov. 8, the Bolivar Area Chamber of Commerce, along with community members celebrated the grand opening of Hope’s Safe Haven with the board members. more

Citizens Memorial Hospital and the CMH Heart Institute Clinic welcome interventional cardiologist David J. Lemons, D.O., FSCAI, to the medical staff. more

Southside Missionary Baptist Church will host a fifth Sunday singing Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. more

Upcoming events at Bolivar Elks Lodge more

It is the time of the year to start getting ready for Christmas. Toys For Tots is now accepting donations at the following locations: more

HI LOW CONDITIONS more

It’s finally starting to feel like fall, and as temperatures drop, it’s important to make sure your furnace is in working order so you don’t have any chilly surprises. more

Joyce is a single parent, and she has a problem. Divorced for 12 years, she had moved to Missouri in July from California with her 17-year-old son, Sam, and he wanted to go deer hunting. more

University of Missouri Director of Veterinary Extension Craig Payne urges cattle producers to watch for signs of disease associated with Theileria orientalis (ikeda), a protozoal organism recently detected in Missouri. more

“Providing education to cattle producers in the areas of cattle grading, feeding and marketing helps them make management decisions to add value to their cattle operation,” says Patrick Davis MU Extension Livestock Field Specialist. Understanding calf feedlot performance and carcass characteristics helps build a reputation that leads to marketing your calves postweaning at a premium. Therefore, MU Extension is partnering with the Show Me Youth Ag Academy, Missouri State University, and ACRISURE®-Gibson Insurance to hold a Feeder Cattle Grading, Feeding and Marketing Workshop on December 9th at 6 p.m. at the Lamar First Baptist Church FLOC Building at 1301 East 6th Street, Lamar, MO 64759. more

Source: Robert Pierce, 573-882-4337 more

With the holiday season officially here, the Bolivar Police Department is seeking the community’s help as it works to make Christmas special for Polk County children. more

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, Rep. Christopher Warwick proudly announced his bid for re-election to serve the people of Hickory and Polk counties. With a steadfast commitment to conservative values and the enduring principles of the Constitution, Warwick will continue working for fiscal responsibility, robust support for small business, and unwavering protection of individual liberties in the Missouri House. more

The new Hermitage Medical Center started out as a vision many years ago and is quickly more

PHMS Pirates 4-H Club, Polk County, has received a grant from the Missouri Farmers Care Foundation’s Drive to Feed Kids matching grant program which empowers youth to lead hunger-relief efforts in local communities through Missouri FFA chapters, Missouri 4-H clubs, collegiate, and career and technical education organizations. Since 2022, grant recipients have raised resources to provide more than 575,877 meals to families in need. more

It was all the way back in 2013 that audiences were first introduced to the Four Horsemen of Magic – J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), and Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher). The quartet blurred the line between “magic tricks” and “heists,” in that they would make the money and valuables of rich evildoers disappear and then reappear in the hands of their audiences. The film spawned a 2016 sequel (called “Now You See Me 2,” which raised the question of why they didn’t use the obvious “Now You Don’t” subtitle for that movie) that did so poorly that I didn’t review or even see it. The franchise looked to be dead. But, as we know from the person-sawed-in-half trick, death is much less common in magic than its practitioners would have you believe. more

Donors contributed nearly $150,000 at the second annual Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation Soirée: A Golden Hour Gala, presented by SGC Foodservice. more

JEFFERSON CITY, MO — The Missouri Department of Revenue (DOR) is announcing the temporary closure of the license office in Hermitage. This office is located at 2313 Oakwood Circle, and will close at end of business on Friday, November 21, until further notice. more