The regular monthly meeting of the Polk County Genealogical Society will be held on Thursday, Nov. 7. It will be an evening of fun and games as the Society celebrates its 30th birthday. A short business meeting will precede the celebration. Election of officers for 2025 will be held. more

Gerdes Wins Freshman of the Year more

On Friday, Oct. 25, Logan-Rogersville visited Bolivar for their last regular season football game. more

Saturday, Oct. 26, the Father Tolton Trailblazers brought their softball team to Bolivar with 21 wins under their belts to face the Lady Liberators who sported 23 wins. more

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On Sunday, Oct. 20, the SBU women’s soccer team hosted Truman State on the Bearcat Senior Day. An early goal from Junior Tamerra Gantt led the Bearcats to a 1-0 victory and an undefeated weekend. more

Bolivar soccer is looking to finish strong as they prepare to move into the postseason. Last week the Liberators hosted conference opponent Branson on Oct. 17 in a final regular season home match where they celebrated senior night with a 2-1 win over the Pirates. more

Friday, Oct. 18, Carl Junction rolled into Bolivar to play a football game with large implications for the conference and district tournament. more

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The Bearcat women’s volleyball took a business trip to Indiana this past weekend to compete at the Midwest Region Crossover. The Bearcats plowed their way through competition going a perfect 3-0 and winning all but one set. They defeated the likes of Malone University, Roosevelt University, and Kentucky Wesleyan College moving them to 11-12 on the season. more

Ryan Young of Buffalo reeled in a 55-pound, 9-ounce fish Oct. 13. more

Pleasant Hope Schools recently released its first-quarter honor roll. According to a school news release, the following students earned spots on the list: more

Citizens Memorial Hospital will host a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. for its new dialysis center. The public is invited to attend. The center will be located at 1160 W. Parkview St. in Bolivar. more

How well do you know Polk County? more

Citizens Memorial Hospital welcomes two new nurse practitioners to the medical staff including Karona Paschke, FNP-C, and Shawndee Knight, WHNP-BC. more

Give blood, save lives and receive a free KC Chiefs T-shirt more

HI LOW PRECIP more

The 2024 tennis Lady Liberators have been setting goals and checking them off one-by-one this season. Earlier this month, they earned a conference championship title and then secured berths for two doubles teams in the individual State tournament. In the last week they checked off two more. The Lady Liberators are now heading to the Final Four after claiming an impressive fifth straight district title last week with a 5-3 upset over top seed Carl Junction followed this week by a 5-1 state quarterfinal win over Savannah. more

The Waynesville Lady Tigers traveled to Bolivar for senior night on Tuesday, Oct. 15. They were greeted by a cold 16-mph NE wind and a red hot Bolivar team. more

Friday afternoon, Oct. 11, the SBU Women’s soccer team started off their road weekend with another conference matchup. They faced Quincy University and came away with a 1-0 win, defeating the hawks for the first time since 2014. more

Friday, Oct. 11, the Bolivar Liberators traveled to meet the Hillcrest Hornets in an Ozark Mountain Conference game on a beautiful fall evening. more

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Class 3 District 3 girls golf districts were held at Silo Ridge on Thursday, Oct. 10. 15 schools were participating. Bolivar had 2 golfers, junior DeLaney Daniels, and senior Caitlyn Cribbs who qualified for the state tournament. more

For the second consecutive year, the tennis Lady Liberators have captured a conference championship. The 2023 conference title came in Bolivar’s final year with the Ozark Conference. This week, the Lady Liberators became the first ever Ozark Mountain Conference tennis champions in the inaugural season of the OMC. Bolivar hosted the six team tournament for nearly nine hours of competition on Oct. 8. With the low score of 16 points, the Lady Liberators secured first with a three point margin of victory over Branson with 19 followed by Carl Junction with 20, two teams that bested Bolivar in tight matches previously in the season. more