By John Conn Hello, I am John Conn, the Applefest sponsor book sales coordinator. Along with a wonderful team, Jim and Kathy Gerhold, Ty Snider, Pam Keith and Shalyn Milford, we are once ...

Across Missouri, small business owners have been facing an exploitive theme that has threatened their very survival. In recent years, a wave of lawsuits has targeted Missouri businesses over ...

Recently, I spent an afternoon with my lifelong friends, Judy Woods Noah and Becky Shartel Bagby. Pris Reed Becky’s parents were my parents’ close and wonderful ...

By Leigh Ann Self We have had such fun in the month of April at the Aurora Branch Library. We celebrated National Library week with so much JOY! May brings Mystery Month with Mystery games ...

By the fall of 1870, Pierce City was busy and growing, but there was one thing it did not yet have. There was no school. Mendi Stroud Wormington Families were settling in, businesses were ...

By Castle Spieker The Aurora Downtown Project (ADP) closed out 2025 with some measurable gains, according to its annual report. This is highlighted in the state of the district section of the ...

The Aurora Houn’ Dawgs tennis team played in four different matches and competed at the Wolf Cup Invitational in Reeds Spring. The varsity squad fell 7-2 against ...

Blevins Asphalt, a paving and construction company, has opened a new facility in Mount Vernon, investing more than $2.8 million and creating two new jobs. The new ...

The Aurora Houn’ Dawgs golf team posted multiple state qualifying scores and recorded several personal bests across a packed two weeks of tournaments. In the Aurora ...

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and ...

The Marionville Junior High Lady Comets softball team dropped three straight games, falling 9-2 to Skyline on April 16, 6-4 to Stockton on April 21, and 8-2 to Diamond ...

By Castle Spieker The dates for this year’s summer school session were approved during the April 22 meeting of the Pierce City Board of Education. This year, summer school is scheduled to run from ...