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5 years ago • Nola McMillen, Nancy Stipp, Helen Wilson, Erlen Hoepker, Doris Everett, Carol Renner, Sharon Breedlove, Beverly Caywood, Ruth Hunke, and Alois Kitchen are members of the Family and Community Education Club. They toured the Oak Ridge Gardens on April 16, and then visited the Newton County Courthouse to look at the murals.…
5 years ago • Members from the Seneca High School FFA chapter and the elementary gifted program were recognized Thursday, March 21, during the Seneca R-7 Board of Education’s regular monthly meeting. Seneca FFA President Jayme Willis, Katie Weldon and Shelby Roark shared with the board and audience members the club’s dedication to recycling and…
Darla Sams wrote the News-Dispatch with some additional information about a ‘Remember When’ photograph. Here’s what she had to say: “In your April 20, 2017 paper, you asked about Alfred Wallach. He was born in 1906 in N.D. Sometime after 1940 he moved to Neosho, he married my great-grandmother, Lela Bryl Walker Macy, who had lived…
5 years ago • To receive a concealed carry weapon (CCW) license in the state of Missouri, residents must attend and complete an approved firearms safety training course. The eight-hour course consists of information from the National Rifle Association, state laws and guidelines, gun safety, and hands-on training with both a revolver and semi automatic…
5 years ago • In 2003 Cindy Daugherty, of Neosho, had a life-changing illness and from that event forward she has lived her life to serve God by helping others. Her illness took her away from her career of bedside nursing and, as fate would have it, about the same time volunteers were needed for…