Local Students

Pastor Robert and Darlene Sorensen, of Ava, Mo. recently received notification their daughter, Sally R. Sorensen, was named to the Dean’s List at Pensacola Christian College, in Pensacola, Florida, for academic achievement during the 2015 fall semester. Pensacola Christian College ...

Ava High School senior Caleb Stillings signed a letter of intent on Tuesday to attend Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kan. His coaches there will be Mike and Katherine Bloemker. As Caleb signed the letter, with parents Bryan ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU –– Kinsey Thompson of Ava, Mo. has received the Residence Life Leadership Award to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 2016-17 academic year. Thompson, the daughter of Kelly and DeAnn Thompson of Ava, will be a 2016 ...

With her parents Ron and Sheila Hunsaker seated next to her, Ava senior McKenna Hunsaker signed a letter to attend Missouri Valley College next year where she will play basketball for the Vikings. Standing in back are Vikings head coach ...

On Saturday, Jan. 31, Caleb Ball, of Lebanon, won the State of Missouri Voice of Democracy speech and essay contest. For winning state, Ball received a $2,000 scholarship and now advances to the national scholarship contest in Washington, D.C., and ...

Ava High School’s Renaissance Assembly for the fall semester was held last Friday morning in the Performing Arts Center. The awards program recognizes achievements of the previous semester of the 2014-15 school year. At the program on Friday, students were ...

The Ava High School FFA Chapter hosted its annual Businessman’s Breakfast on Friday morning last week as part of the National FFA Week observance.  

Wallace Lau, a foreign exchange student from Hong Kong, joined two members of the Douglas County Republican Women’s Club to attend the Legislative Ball at the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City. The ball was in the evening on Jan. 7, ...

Ava High School Citizens of the Month for January were recognized  at the noon meeting of the Ava Kiwanis Club last Thursday. This month’s Citizens are Wyatt Gastineau and Jacey Swofford. Wyatt Gastineau is freshman at AHS.  He is the ...

Ava High School Hoopcoming for 2015 will be held this Friday night when the Bears take on the Mansfield Lions in basketball action. Basketball play will begin at 5 p.m. with a freshman game, followed by the junior varsity, then ...