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On page 120 of the 2022 MAEA Show Me Art Coloring Book, 2nd edition, a line art drawing of plump strawberries and an Eastern Bluebird await an artist’s touch — a colorful splash of reds, a wash of baby blue and a touch of rust.

There is power in community, and nothing demonstrated that fact better than a recent fundraising effort to benefit the Life360 Resource Center in Monett. Costs to operate the center to date, which includes maintenance, systems, facility updates, tenant updates and cosmetic upgrades, along with start-up costs for a new pre-school, have totaled nearly $5 million.

One of the three Barry County jail escapees was apprehended on Wednesday, more than 750 miles away from Cassville. Danny Boyd, Barry County sheriff, said after Christopher Blevins, of Golden; Lance Stephens, of Washburn; and Matthew Crawford, of Springfield, escaped the jail, a flat bedGMC was stolen from a home on Highway Y. That vehicle was recovered in Salina, Kan., and it was suspected Blevins had driven it there, ditched it and stole another.

Verona has joined Lawrence County and virtually every municipality and school district within the county in accepting the Lawrence County Multi-jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. The purpose of hazard mitigation is to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from hazards. Lawrence County and participating jurisdictions and school/special districts developed this multi-jurisdictional local hazard mitigation plan update to reduce future losses from hazard events to the county and its communities and school/special districts.