Stories from Wednesday, May 27, 2015

EIGHTY YEARS AGO May 24-30, 1935 Monett's first flower show, which opened in the Martin building, corner of Fourth and Broadway, is a marvelous display of floral beauty and color. The room has been transformed into a fairyland of rock gardens, formal and informal gardens, shadow boxes, bouquets, lily pools and baskets of garden flowers...

Four children were injured Tuesday in an ATV wreck on Farm Road 1135, five miles southeast of Cassville, at about 4:10 p.m. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Sydnie Hudgins, 12, of Cassville, was driving a 2012 John Deere Sport ATV northbound on Farm Road 1135 when the vehicle ran off the left side of the roadway and struck a tree...

The Monett High School volleyball team will host open tryouts on Aug. 3-4 from 7-10 a.m. at the high school gymnasium. For more information, people may contact Julie Dalton at jdalton@g-apps.monett.k12.mo.us.

Windmill Ridge Golf Course will host a Junior Golf League beginning June 4 and ending July 30. The league is open to golfers age 9-16, with league play every Thursday morning. Players will need their own bags and clubs and should have a basic knowledge of golf and the ability to put the ball in play...

The 25th annual Mark Welch Memorial Benefit Golf Tournament is slated for June 7 at Honey Creek Golf Club near Aurora. The tournament is a five-person scramble format and benefits families affected by major illnesses. For more information, people may call 417-678-3353...

The Ozark 7 Conference released its all-conference award list on Thursday. Purdy, the conference champion, collected both the Player of the Year and Coach of the Year awards, along with four other first team accolades. The list is as follows: Player of the Year: Breanna Keeler, Purdy...

As the 2013-2014 track and field season ended, Pierce City Coach Brad Hocker issued a challenge to his underclassmen to work hard to help restore glory to the proud program. The Eagles' track and field program only qualified three athletes for the state meet last year, and that was unacceptable to a coach and a school accustomed to having double-digit attendees at the state event...

A 10-0 sectional loss to Marionville was not the way the Purdy baseball team wanted to end the season. However, a wound that opened in the first inning, to the tune of a 3-0 Marionville lead, never stopped bleeding until a four-run fifth initiated the mercy rule on Monday...

The Barry County Relay for Life will be held from 6 p.m. to midnight on May 29 at Monett's South Park. For additional information, people may call 417-447-1476. The Newtonia Battlefield Preservation Association will meet at 6:30 p.m. on May 28 at the Newtonia Community Center. Jack and Leann Sours will present music of the Civil War...

The Monett Kiwanis Club received the first public look at the nearly completed Monett High School Performing Arts Center on Tuesday.

Patrons, staff and school officials at Pierce City recently met with the goal of improving communications between the district and the community. Superintendent Russ Moreland led the effort, advising those in attendance of the continuing advancement of communication technology and gaps where those communications needed improvement...

Patrons, staff and school officials at Pierce City recently met with the goal of improving communications between the district and the community. Superintendent Russ Moreland led the effort, advising those in attendance of the continuing advancement of communication technology and gaps where those communications needed improvement...

J.J. Goulbourne has joined the Barry-Lawrence Regional Library staff as its first information technology manager. To upgrade the district's battery of computers, both for public and administrative use, the public meeting room in the Monett Branch has become the technology center, where Goulbourne and Lee Ann Rosewicz, the former children's librarian and now computer technician, now work...

A St. Louis man will soon be transported to Lawrence County after being arrested in St. Louis for the alleged kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl from Miller. According to Lawrence County Sheriff Brad DeLay, Kevin Nosser, 47, of St. Louis, is facing a charge of child kidnapping, a class A felony, and was transported from the Washington County jail to the Lawrence County jail on Tuesday...

The Monett school district has opened the search for a new high school principal after David Steward, high school principal for the last 14 years, resigned to take the post as assistant superintendent for the Marshfield school district. Steward's move follows the U.S. ...