The PBR (Professional Bull Riders) announced the original extreme sport will be returning to Springfield at Great Southern Bank (GSB) Arena during the 2024 Labor Day weekend for PBR Thunder Days, the home-stand of the Bass Pro Shops-owned Missouri Thunder in the PBR Camping World Team Series.
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3/20/24
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If “all politics is local,” then April 2 is a big day for voters in Southwest Missouri. The Informed Voter Coalition, a nonpartisan group dedicated to empowering voters and fostering engagement between candidates and citizens, is extending its reach to include Christian County candidates alongside those in the Springfield area for the upcoming elections.
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3/20/24
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Ozark Middle School (OMS) was filled with laughter, joy and singing on March 8, 2024, as the Ozark community, state and local representatives, school and District staff and OMS choir students gathered to cut the official ribbon for the OMS storm shelter, classrooms, offices and new entrance.
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3/13/24
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Spokane R-VII announced Mr. Glen Johnson as the Spokane Middle School principal and Spokane R-VII Athletic Director for the 2024-2025 school year. Current principal, Dr. Joel Carey, is retiring at the end of the 2023-2024 school year.
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3/13/24
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The City of Nixa has launched Nixa 2045, a process for planning the city’s growth for the next 20 years and beyond. The city is gathering public input for this new comprehensive plan process to help develop a plan that guides the decision-making, development and infrastructure projects across the community and serves as a road map to visualize where the community wants to go as a city and the path to reach that destination. The focus of the plan emphasizes land use, transportation, education, parks and trails, development patterns, housing types, infrastructure and economic development. An initial public survey was launched in late 2023 for the community to share their priorities for Nixa’s future.
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3/13/24
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Mecole Hardman, Jr., from the Kansas City Chiefs, is set to come to Nixa’s Aetos Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, April 21. In this special evening in the Meridian Title Performance Hall, starting at 7:00 p.m., Hardman will share about his life, challenges and how he found success as a way to inspire others to follow their dreams and the hard work it takes to achieve those.
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3/13/24
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The Ozark Board of Education voted to hire Robert Hedgecorth as the Executive Director of Finance & Business Operations at a special meeting March 4. The finance position became available following the hiring of Dr. Lori Wilson as the District’s superintendent in December. Wilson had been serving in dual roles as interim superintendent and chief financial officer.
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3/13/24
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Jacob Sayre, 18, pleaded guilty on March 6, 2024, to a charge of involuntary manslaughter - 1st degree and a charge of delivery of controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoid, as listed on Casenet. Count 2 — endangering the welfare of a child - 1st degree - death of a child - no sexual conduct — was dismissed as part of a plea agreement. The first charge was also amended from 2nd degree murder to the involuntary manslaughter charge. Both charges are class C felonies.
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3/6/24
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Nixa High School's student-produced news magazine, “Wingspan,” and its related website, NixaJournalism.net, earned a Silver Medalist award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA).
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3/6/24
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More than 60 local grocers partnered with Ozarks Food Harvest for the 25th annual Check Out Hunger campaign, raising nearly $48,000 from customer donations to provide more than 142,000 meals across the Ozarks.
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3/6/24
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Meda knows bondage. She has spent her entire life a fortune-telling slave, forced to use her gifts to the benefit of her masters. But when a strange man comes into her life, proclaiming the way of salvation, she comes to the realization that her bondage goes far deeper than the chains around her wrists.
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3/6/24
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Late last month, the Missouri Democratic Party announced the opening of the mail-ballot request period to vote in the Presidential Primary election scheduled for Saturday, March 23, 2024. Registered Missouri voters can request a ballot online at https://request.mrgvote.com/Missouri or call 855-433-8683 to request their mail ballot.
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3/6/24
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