Stories from Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation has awarded a $10,000 grant to the Southwest Area Career Center of Monett for a mobile computer lab. "This is a very competitve grant," said Peggy Spurlock, SWACC service coordinator. "We are very proud of this achievement."...

The Monett Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors made plans for upcoming activities at its February board meeting. Sonia Smith, with the Rhode Island-based travel firm of Collette Vacations, made a presentation on the chamber-sponsored seven-day trip to Panama that leaves on Sept. 22...

By MELONIE ROBERTS "It's just another day at the office, Mom, and I love my job." Those were some of the last words spoken by Army Specialist Christopher Glenn Stark in a phone call to his mother, Teresa Stark, one week before he was killed in action in COP Tangi, Afghanistan, on Feb. 28. He was 22...