Mary R. Breshears Ethridge, 59, passed away at home with her loving husband on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. She was born on Sept. 17, 1961, in Humansville to Nevin Jack Breshears and Betty Jo Lane Breshears.
Sue Carol Hagar passed away Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Gower, at the age of 85.
Vesta Adella Blue passed from this earth into life eternal with her Lord and Savior on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020.
Helen D. Rowan Rotrock passed away on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, at the age of 104 and 7 months.
Jeremy R. Crain, 48, of Sedalia, passed away Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, at the age of 48 years, 10 months, 10 days.
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Bernard Krtek passed away Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, at Parkview Healthcare Facility after a short illness.
Frank “Eddie” Edward Tucker of Windsor, formerly of St. James, passed away Thursday Aug. 6, 2020, at the Windsor Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. He was 85 years of age.
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Glen Johnson knows some members of the Ozark Conference might look at his Bolivar High School football team, which graduated 15 seniors this spring, and see a program in a rebuilding year.
On warm summer nights when bullfrogs serenade and fireflies glimmer over the meadow, my mind returns with my dad and brothers to a favorite catfishing hole on the Pomme de Terre near Fair Grove.
CRIMINAL CHARGES
Here is my beef, and I feel 95% will agree you can’t get away from it, whether on TV or radio.
For the 11th time, financial services firm Edward Jones has ranked "Highest in Employee Advisor Satisfaction among Financial Investment Firms" by J.D. Power.
During what many would describe as the suckiest summer in recent history, something good happened at our house. Two of our three children have become gainfully employed with their first official jobs.
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A Bolivar man accused of making terroristic threats during a standoff with law enforcement is set to serve over three years in federal prison following a sentencing hearing last week.
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An Oregon family with ties to the cattle business has purchased Pleasant Hope’s Moon Ridge Foods meat processing plant.
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Even as new positive cases of COVID-19 seem to slow down, Polk County may have experienced its first death related to the new coronavirus.
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On a quiet Tuesday night at the Polk County courthouse, JR Fleeman, candidate for southern district commissioner, read the results for the office’s August Republican primary on a bench outside the county clerk’s office, then reordered them and walked down the stairs and outside into the dark.
Bolivar High School cross country will start practice next week.
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