A mobile home located behind Pennington’s Supermarket in Ash Grove was destroyed by a fire in the early morning hours of Friday, Feb. 28. Nobody was hurt in the blaze, but the structure itself was a total loss.
Adrienne Poulson, of Republic, has been named branch manager of the Ash Grove and Willard branches of the Springfield-Greene County Library District. She formerly was a Youth Services librarian at the Library Center, and previously worked at the Republic Branch Library.
A Branson man was arrested by Republic police officers on Thursday, Feb. 20 on charges that he allegedly abused an infant by shaking it. Eddie Dwayne Davis, 23, is charged with abuse or neglect of a child, a class B felony in Missouri.
The Federal Communications Commission authorized more than $175 million funding over 10 years for the expansion of rural broadband has been authorized for Missouri. These investments will connect over 68,000 unserved rural homes and businesses in Missouri.
A public hearing was held Tuesday, Feb. 18, at Ash Grove City Hall regarding the annexation of rights-of-way heading east out of Ash Grove along Highway 160, to the east side of Lyndall Hall’s property.
Around 30 people, and several Ash Grove FFA members, were on hand for the chapter’s Beef Production Seminar, the evening of Feb. 21, at the Ash Grove High School cafeteria. Seminar attendees were treated to a full meal at the function, served by FFA members.
Summer school at Ash Grove just got a whole lot longer. The Ash Grove Board of Education voted unanimously at its Feb. 24 meeting to double the amount of time for summer school—starting this coming summer—from two weeks to four.
An Ash Grove man was arrested and booked into the Greene County Jail on Thursday, Feb. 13 after he failed to appear in court in January. Michael Curtis was scheduled to appear at the Greene County Circuit Court on Wednesday, Jan.
A Republic woman died when the mobile home she was living in at Republic’s Alpine Village was destroyed by fire Wednesday, Feb. 19. Her husband managed to escape the fire, and was reported as having been transported to a hospital with smoke inhalation and minor burns.
