Stories from Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Clovis Edwin Richardson, 90, of Little Rock, Ark., died Oct.17. A memorial celebration of life will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 10 a.m. in the Chapel at Fellowship Bible Church of Little Rock. Visitation will be held at the Buchanan Funeral Home in Monett, on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 10 a.m. with interment to follow at 11 a.m. at Spring River Cemetery in Verona...

Lloyd E. Paul, 81, of Washburn, died Thursday, Oct 8. Graveside services were held Monday, Oct. 19, at Washburn Prairie Cemetery in Washburn, under direction of Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville.

James Bert “Jim” Doty, 57, of Aurora, died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at his home. A visitation, under the direction of the Crafton-Cantrell Funeral Home, in Aurora, will be held from 12-2:00 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, at the Engage Church 16 W. Olive St. in Aurora, with a funeral service to follow at 2 p.m. at the church. A private family burial will follow at Crane Community Cemetery in Crane...

Glen Eugene Cooper, 86, formerly of Wheaton, died Thursday, Oct. 15. Graveside services were held Monday, Oct. 19, at Muncie Chapel Cemetery in Wheaton, under direction of McQueen Funeral Home in Wheaton.

Janice Ball, 78, of Eagle Rock, died Wednesday, Oct. 14. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, October 21, at Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville. Burial will be at Monett IOOF Cemetery in Monett. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until service time Wednesday, at Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville...

Lawrence Lee “Larry” Carl, 68, of Mt. Vernon, died at 5:46 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield. A family graveside service will be scheduled for a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of the Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon...

Truman Harold Zinn, age 79, of Verona, Missouri, passed away Thursday, October 15, 2020. He was born July 25, 1941, in Leann, Missouri, the son of Howard P. and Faye Marie (Larkin) Zinn, who preceded him in death. Also preceding him in death was a sister, Rethal Williams...

West East Seneca at Monett McDonald County at Cassville East Newton at Lamar Springfield Catholic at Hollister Mt. Vernon at Marshfield Nevada at Aurora Logan-Rogersville at Reeds Spring Pleasant Hope at Pierce City Reeds Spring at Aurora, 20-22 Cassville at East Newton, 42-0...

The volleyball action will be fast and furious Monday, as Branson High School will host the Class 4, District 10 tournament. No. 4 Monett faces No. 1 Branson at 5 p.m., followed by No. 2 Neosho and No. 3 McDonald County. The championship match is slated to begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday...

With just one game left in the 2020 regular season football schedule, fans and teams are looking ahead to what the district playoff structure looks like. For Monett and Pierce City, the picture is fairly clear when it comes to what seeds they will earn. There are still some questions as to whom the programs will face...

Most fans never see or understand the work that goes on behind the scenes to make a home high school football run smooth. On each day of a home game, Monett Athletic Director Daryl Bradley emails roughly 30 individuals from gate workers to time keepers, including four student organizations, about the job responsibilities and times that each group is expected to arrive and perform their required duties...

Aurora Bible Church, located at 550 N. Hwy. 39, Aurora, is planning a special church anniversary celebration for Sunday, Oct. 25. The church was formed Oct. 31, 1977, and will celebrate its 43rd year as a church body with a mortgage burning. With the blessings of God and faithful members, the church body has paid off the mortgage on the building and property three years early...

City of Monett Fire Department Chief Tom Jones has issued a burn ban effective immediately inside the City limits of Monett. This burn ban remains in effect until there is another post stating that it has been lifted by the Fire Chief. For more information, people may contact Monett Fire Station #1 at 417-235-7799...

Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick was the guest speaker at a recent Monett Young Professionals Network luncheon held at the Monett City Park Casino.

The Monett Police Department has scheduled its annual Drug Take Back in an effort to prevent the abuse and theft of medications by ridding homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs. The Drug Take Back will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Monett Justice Center, located at 1901 East Cleveland Ave. in Monett...

A two-vehicle crash at 3:34 p.m. Friday resulted in several people sustaining probable injuries, but only one transported to a local hospital. According to a Monett Police Department report, the incident occurred at the intersection of Highway 37 (Central) and Scott Street, when a westbound 2012 Toyota Avalon, driven by Rosaline Huffmaster, 80, of Monett, attempted to cross Central Street and collided with a southbound 2011 GMC Yukon, driven by Josh Osterloh, 35, of rural Monett...

The Fifth Street Sidewalk Improvement Project is underway and will include the replacement of approximately 1,950 linear feet of sidewalk on the east side of Fifth Street to Bond Street. This work also includes the construction of handicapped-accessible ramps at each intersection and new driveway approaches. There will be approximately 425 linear feet of sidewalk replaced on the west side of Fifth Street, primarily between Scott and Cleveland streets...

With the COVID-19 (coronavirus) weighing heavily on operations, the board of the Monett Area Extended Employment, Sheltered Workshop elected new officers following the resignation of longtime board chairman Mike Hemphill and accepted an audit outlining the service’s major deficit in the past fiscal year...

The Lawrence County Health Department has confirmed at least three people who attended Apple Butter Day on Oct. 10 have tested positive for COVID-19. The Mt. Vernon Christian Church organized Apple Butter Day event, a 54-year-tradition in Lawrence County, after the original three-day celebration had been canceled by the Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce in response to the pandemic...

As the new Cox Monett Hospital nears completion, so does the Cox Monett Momentum Campaign’s efforts to raise $7 million. The campaign, identified as key to the hospital’s ability to meet all goals for space, technology and patient care, is now only $56,000 short of its goal...

State House District 158 incumbent Scott Cupps, R-Shell Knob, will have a challenger for his seat in November in Brenda McKinney, D-Seligman, and the two are focused heavily on the budget, jobs, healthcare and the environment. Cupps is a life-long Barry County resident who still farms throughout the county. ...

Lawrence County’s longstanding need to replace the Lawrence County jail is getting a jump start through an eight-acre gift of land from the city of Mt. Vernon. The Mt. Vernon City Council voted to transfer the undeveloped acreage south of Interstate 44 with the condition that if progress on the jail construction isn’t made within 3-5 years, ownership will revert back to the city...

The number of active COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases in Barry County nearly doubled in the past week, climbing to its highest point at any one time thus far at 181. According the Barry County Health Department and Barry County Office of Emergency Management, there have been 882 (+166) confirmed positive cases of COVID-19, including one presumptive and four antibody positives. ...