Commission Approves Statewide Transportation Improvement Program
RICHMOND, Mo. – The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has approved the 2020-24 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP).
The STIP is the Missouri Department of...
Skyline R-II Ready To Enroll Students August 6-7
Skyline R-II School will be enrolling new students August 6 – 7 from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. If your student was not enrolled...
Ava Native Worked on Apollo Missions
Herald Archive Photos
Ava Native Pat Williams (center, from 1969) lived in California and worked on Apollo Missions 10-13 before returning to Missouri, attending college, and entering...
Weekend Accident Sends One to Hospital
On Saturday, July 13th at 4:15 p.m., a two-car collision at the intersection of Highway 5 and Johnson Avenue (Y) in Ava sent one...
A Tale Few Have Heard By Barbara Sisney Daniel
Squirrels are one of the few wild animals I love to watch. A number of them visit our backyard to dine on the sunflower...
Officer Involved Shooting In Wright County
On July 5, at 9:25 a.m., officers from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Wright County Sheriff’s Department and Mountain Grove Police Department attempted to...
Sports
A Fond Farewell: Seniors to depart, but Ava baseball keeps growing
By Jason Hoekema
At the start of the 2019 baseball season, the Bears had only put three batters on base in their 2-0 winning season...
Heads Held High: Bears fall behind, 4-1, in state quarterfinals
By Jason Hoekema
WESTPHALIA – “You have nothing to be ashamed of,” said head coach Rex Sawyer as he spoke to his players along the...
What About This? By Wayne William Cipriano
What A Week! Renee`arrived on the third and we partied at the airport and all...
Looking Backward
25 years ago
Maynard Wallace, a Thornfield native and superintendent of schools at Forsyth for the...
A Small Medium @ Large
Illusions We Live Part IV – All We Are Saying is Give Bees a Chance....
The Snoop
Hearsay.
Slander.
Scuttlebutt.
Small talk.
The latest.
Tattle-tale.
Rumor mill.
Gossip.
The list of terms describing gossip could fill a page. There are...
A Small Medium @ Large
Illusions We Live PART III –Ambiguous and impossible figures illustrate that the brain’s neural substrates...
What About This? By Wayne William Cipriano
Carol Boeddeker-Genet, who wrote the continuing column “Dogwood Ramblings” in the Douglas County Herald, passed...
What About This? By Wayne William Cipriano
What A Week! Renee`arrived on the third and we partied at the airport and all over Springfield. Then we partied the next day with...
