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Cox promotes nutrition month
(03/12/10)
Healthy eating and living a nutritious lifestyle is the focus of a National Nutrition Month celebration at Cox Monett Hospital this month. Raine Holly, who serves as Cox Monett's food nutrition director, is spearheading Nutrition Month activities targeting both hospital employees and community members...
Monett, Missouri · Monday, March 15, 2010
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 The Purdy City Council has decided to call for a special election in June for a vote on a bond issue to upgrade the city's sewer system. Aldermen passed a resolution at the March meeting agreeing to compliance standards with...
Monett City Council members discussed a wide range of plans andpolicies, including the new main street coordinator, with members of its Advisory Board last week. Mayor Jim Orr said he feared the visioning work by the Drury...
Loaves and Fishes, Monett's oldest charitable hot meal delivery program, re-elected its officers for another year and maintained a steady financial position during 2009. Reports on the past year were given at the...
Both wireless and landline customers of AT&T have received bills in the past month that include a charge for the settlement of litigation last year over unpaid franchise taxes. Monett City Administrator Dennis Pyle confirmed...
Roger Brock, of Cassville, began serving as the Barry County Health Department's new administrator on March 1. Brock has over 13 years of experience in public health. "I enjoy working with people," said Brock. "I do a lot in...
Specialists promote beef industry success
(03/12/10) Speakers at the 41st annual Beef Cattlemen's Conference in Monett provided insight on achieving more success in the cattle industry. Dr. Bryon Wiegand, team leader of the University of Missouri's commercial agriculture meats team, talked about understanding beef grades. Grading standards for beef have dovetailed into value-added quality... 
Advisory groups discuss "main street" effort
(03/11/10)Monett City Council members discussed a wide range of plans andpolicies, including the new main street coordinator, with members of its Advisory Board last week. Mayor Jim Orr said he feared the visioning work by the Drury University students was in danger of being forgotten with attendance dropping at subsequent committee meetings. ...
Missing man is found dead
(03/11/10) The body of Ernest Jensen, the missing Newton County man whom Monett and Pierce City firefighters searched for over the weekend, was found last evening. According to Captain Richard Leavens with the Newton County Sheriff's Department, Jensen was found under brush in a pasture around 5:30 p.m. by a neighbor checking livestock. The body was located about one mile west of the Jensen home near the Smackout access off Highway 60, between Pierce City and Granby in Newton County...
Verona Council struggles with financial issues
(03/11/10) Verona City Council members put the brakes on planned spending during their February meeting in light of a worsening financial picture. Clerk Julie Ruscha reported sales tax revenues were down 30 percent with the fiscal year ending on March 31. The news contributed to caution in making major financial moves... 
Leoaves and Fishes reports delivering 7,262 meals in 2009
(03/11/10)Loaves and Fishes, Monett's oldest charitable hot meal delivery program, re-elected its officers for another year and maintained a steady financial position during 2009. Reports on the past year were given at the organization's annual volunteer recognition luncheon held March 9 at the First United Methodist Church in Monett...
The Den hosts March Madness concert series
(03/11/10) The Den in Monett is hosting a month-long March Madness spring concert series for area youth. This Saturday, March 13, Highland Fall, a rock band out of Columbia, will perform. The concert will be held at the Church of the Nazarene in Monett to accommodate a crowd of teenagers that could number in the hundreds... 
AT&T settlement is passed on to customers
(03/10/10)Both wireless and landline customers of AT&T have received bills in the past month that include a charge for the settlement of litigation last year over unpaid franchise taxes. Monett City Administrator Dennis Pyle confirmed that Monett is among the 270 cities that sued AT&T where the phone company has opted to pass the settlement along to customers. Bills from the various phone companies now have a "municipal gross receipts charge" covering the future cost of paying the franchise tax to cities...
St. Pat's theme on tap for Friday's Broadway Nights
(03/10/10) Broadway Nights returns on Friday with a number of activities scheduled at participating downtown businesses in Monett. Live entertainment is again planned at the coffee houses. Mocha Jo's will have Neva Welters playing the hammered dulcimer as the main attraction. At Denali Dreams, local voice teacher Robin Braun and her students, high school age and older, will perform songs from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m... 
New administrator named to head up Barry Co. Health Dept.
(03/10/10)Roger Brock, of Cassville, began serving as the Barry County Health Department's new administrator on March 1. Brock has over 13 years of experience in public health. "I enjoy working with people," said Brock. "I do a lot in the community along with the work I have done with the health department. I see public health as something interesting and challenging. There is never a dull moment in this field."... |
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St. Pat's parades, Bon Jovi, Chinese ballet, concerts, plays offered as entertainment options for March 12-18
(03/11/10)This week in Monett: Broadway Nights is Friday. Neva Welters plays her hammered dulcimer at Mocha Jo's, 404 E. Broadway, and at Denali Dreams, 316 E. Broadway, voice teacher Robin Braun and her students provide music, beginning at 6:30 p.m. At Mocha Jo's, the inde rock band Heypenny from Nashville, Tenn., plays at 7 p.m. March 11. Michaela Wallace plays at 7 p.m. on Saturday... 
Concerts, jazz fests, theater offered for week of March 5-11
(03/04/10)This week in Monett: The Concordia University Chicago Kapelle a capella choir performs in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. John's Lutheran Church, 23237 Highway H, Monett. The concert will include sacred and secular music. A donation will be collected... |