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Liberty Utilities has scheduled a planned power outage for maintenance in the Golden City and Dudenville areas, starting at 11 p.m. April 15. (Graphic provided by Liberty Utilities-Central Region)

Liberty Utilities Schedules Late Night Power Outage April 15 in...

Liberty Utilities (owners of The Empire District Electric Company) has announced that there will be a scheduled power outage starting about 11...

From the Small Business Administration: Shuttered Venue Operators...

The U.S. Small Business Administration has officially opened the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) application portal today, April 8, 2021 as...

Unofficial Results: Adamson Defeats Daniels for Miller Mayor; Close...

Unofficial results released by Lawrence County have John Adamson winning the election for Miller mayor, 86-60. Other results from Northern...

Owen Neely of South Greenfield Selected for the Missouri...

Owen Neely of South Greenfield, Mo., was one of 30 high school sophomores recently selected to participate in the Missouri Department of...

House gives final push to bills on public health orders,...

Legislation that would severely limit public health officials’ power was approved by the Missouri House on Thursday amid a flurry of action on...

The modern boundaries of the Lockwood R-I School District. (Graphic by James McNary)

School Consolidation: Sylvania Grade School – Part II

Following the failure of a second bond issue proposal to expand the older Lockwood elementary school and close then still-new Sylvania grade...

A map from Liberty Utilities (Empire District Electric) showing outages just prior to the peak of the rolling blackouts instituted the morning of Feb. 16. (Graphic from Liberty Utilities-Central)

Questions on Coal, Wind for Electricity Follow Rolling Blackouts

Many electric utilities across southwest Missouri were faced with a situation of too much demand for too little supply as the “Arctic Blast”...

The former Sylvania Grade School as it recently appeared during warmer weather. The school was only in use from 1954-62 following rural school reorganization in Dade County. (Photo by James McNary)

School Consolidation: Sylvania School 1954-1962 - Part I

February 23, 2021

In the time leading up to the votes that reorganized all the school districts in Dade County into the four present systems, a gentlemen’s agreement...

The Cold Facts: Wheat and N

February 17, 2021

From Jill Scheidt, University of Missouri Extension Agronomy Field Specialist Be cautious when considering a nitrogen application in cold...

A map of area school districts circa 1932, overlain on a modern set of MoDOT county maps. Aside from a few consolidated districts, most schools were small, one-room common districts at this time. (Graphic by James McNary)

Rural School Consolidation: Area Districts at the Time of the 1932...

February 17, 2021

In the Eighty-Third Report on the Public Schools of the State of Missouri issued in 1932, a supplement of over 1,650 pages was included, with...

Latest from Liberty Utilities-Empire District Regarding Peaking Issues

February 17, 2021

From Liberty Utilities Central (The Empire District Electric Company): ATTENTION LIBERTY ELECTRIC CUSTOMERS – Noon, February 17, 2021 Update: ...

Orscheln Farm & Home Sold to Tractor Supply Co.

February 17, 2021

After over 60 years of family ownership, it was announced to employees Tuesday that Orscheln Farm & Home will be sold to Tractor Supply...

The former Carlock school as it now stands in a farm field south of Dadeville. After being re-formed from the private Dadeville Academy, the Dadeville public school system consolidated with several rural districts, including Carlock, to form one of the earliest consolidated school districts in the state, Dadeville C-2. Other early consolidated districts in Dade County included Arcola C-1 and Pennsboro C-3. The C-2 district continued to operate the rural one-room schools for a number of years after consolidation, as did the Arcola and Pennsboro districts. (Photo by James McNary)

Rural School Consolidation: The Consolidation and Reorganization Acts

February 9, 2021

In Missouri, the term “consolidated school district” first emerged from statutes passed by the General Assembly to encourage districts to combine...

The Pennsboro School, now a community center, was constructed in the mid-1930s by the Pennsboro C-3 School District, which formed in 1917 through the consolidation of four one-room, common school districts. For whatever reason, the district continued operating the one-room schools until this four-room building was constructed. Grades first through eighth were taught by four teachers (two grades per teacher) in this building until the Pennsboro district was reorganized with Greenfield R-IV circa 1951, after which the Greenfield district continued to use the building as a rural elementary school for a few more years. (Photo by James McNary)

Rural School Consolidation: School District Names Often Contain a...

February 2, 2021

Among the most obvious, but often overlooked, reminders of the process of school consolidation in Missouri is often the name of the school...

COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin in Dade, Lawrence Counties

February 2, 2021

The Dade County Health Department received its first doses of COVID-19 vaccine early last week and began distributing them to county residents...

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