Stories from Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Alice Watson, 83, of Cassville, died Monday, April 20. Cremation arrangements are under direction of Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville.

Sarah Jane Salmond, 65, Mt. Vernon, died at 3:29 p.m. Friday, April 15. Due to current restrictions placed on gatherings, the family will hold a Celebration of Life service will be held at a later date. Services are under the direction of the Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon...

Sinclair “Sy” Rogers II, passed away on Sunday, April 19, in Winter Park, Fla. Private services will be held at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Monett. Memorial services will be announced on a later date. Arrangements have been entrusted to Buchanan Funeral Home, Monett...

Dallas Walter Hardt, 91, of Mt. Vernon, died Tuesday, April 14, at his home. Due to current restrictions placed on gatherings, the family will hold a memorial service for Dallas at a later time. Services are under the direction of the Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon...

Tommie Edington, 77, Mt. Vernon, died Thursday, April 16. Due to current restrictions placed on gatherings, the family will hold private services at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of the Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon...

The Project RISE meeting planned for April 23 at Mocha Jo’s has been postponed. Ray Haught, on the steering committee for the undertaking geared at helping families escape poverty, said another meeting is planned soon for selecting another launch date, possibly in August or September...

With the new Cox Monett Hospital taking shape at rear right, road crews moved in on April 16 to begin widening Highway 60 to create turning lanes for both eastbound and westbound traffic, widening the highway on both the north and south sides.

A Springfield man, Matthew Abney, 37, is now in custody of the Missouri Department of Corrections on a probation violation for an April 2019 charge of resisting or interfering with a felony arrest, an E felony, and is set to serve three years on that charge...

With the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic injecting chaos into the local marketplace, sales tax disbursements to local cities and counties barely showed a ripple in April. Overall, receipts dropped by 3 percent, while around half of the government bodies reported gains for the month...

A rural Freistatt woman had a narrow escape Sunday when lightning struck her house, and it took a sheriff’s deputy to rouse her from sleep as her house burned. According to Art Mattlage, Freistatt Fire District chief, firefighters received a call at 2:20 a.m. ...

Reports of problems from COVID-19 (coronavirus) impacting food production plants in other parts of the country have brought additional attention to workers required to labor in close quarters. Tyson Foods and Schreiber Foods report extra precautions have been taken to keep both employees and products safe during the pandemic...

By Jared Lankford sports@monett-times.com Although we are only a week past Easter, 2020 spring sports in Missouri could soon join the ranks of institutions that are resurrected. The Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Board of Directors has voted to grant relief of portions of the MSHSAA bylaws that include summer limits on contact between coaches and student-athletes...

Clif Crockett, retired church pastor, led the volunteers with the Community Kitchen’s grocery distribution in prayer prior to Monday’s effort.

With restaurants closed and public traffic curtailed, food producers nationwide have found themselves in a pinch, either moving the product they make or finding an open market for it. According to Reagan Bluel, dairy specialist for the University of Missouri Extension Service, that crunch has extended even to local dairy producers...

On April 13, local nurse Cheryl Webb boarded a plane for New York City, the United States’ COVID-19 (coronavirus) hot zone, to help care for those sick from the pandemic. With more confirmed coronavirus patients than anywhere else in the world, the essential medical workers have been strained by long hours, and many of them have also contracted the virus...

The Barry County Health Department is reporting a sixth case of COVID-19 in Barry County. The individual is under an isolation order and is being monitored closely by the Barry County Health Department. As appropriate and allowed emergency responders are made aware of potentially hazardous situations. The new case is believed to be unrelated to previous cases in the county...