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Missouri, Kentucky Weather: Showers and Storms Dominating the Weekend
Paducah, KY – Residents in Kentucky and Missouri should prepare for a wet weekend as isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected through tonight. According to the US National Weather Service in Paducah, better chances of rain and storms are anticipated from Saturday through Tuesday, especially during the afternoon and early evening hours.
Here are the southwest Missouri high school football teams with the best position groups
Several teams across the Ozarks are deep at different position groups entering the season. We went through and picked out which teams are the best at the different positions entering the year. Here are the top position groups in the Ozarks along with other teams who aren’t far behind. Quarterback - Fair Grove ...
Mizzou’s Matthias Young develops a technique to detect nutrients in soil faster and more affordably
Every year, Missouri farmers lose millions of dollars in valuable nutrients that wash away into rivers and lakes. These nutrients — nitrates and phosphates found in fertilizers — are crucial for plant growth, but they wreak havoc on aquatic life when they end up in waterways. University of...
When Lightning Completely Annihilated a Missouri Highway Truck
Kaboom. If you were close enough to a Missouri highway vehicle, that would have been the deafening sound when lightning completely unloaded 200 million volts in a microsecond. If you look at the Weather Bug lightning map, you'll see that Missouri is one of the states struck by lightning the most. That fact was emphasized one night when a Greene County Highway Department truck was on the receiving end of a massive lightning strike.
Pam Hedgpeth, former Republic and SBU leader, receives statewide honor
An educator with deep ties in the Ozarks and more than four decades of experience will be among those honored this month as one of Missouri's Pioneers in Education. Pam Hedgpeth, Clever, has been superintendent in Republic, a professor at Southwest Baptist University, and the executive director of the Greater Ozarks Cooperating School...
As Factory Farms Expand in Ozarks, Grassroots Groups Organize for Water Quality and Property Rights
The beauty of the Ozarks has become a little more in question due to a lack of protection around property rights. That’s the perspective of Dan Chiles, Dave Coonrod and Kathy Christy, and it’s based in part due to the 2019 removal of local control of confined animal feeding operations, otherwise known as CAFOs.
Greene County Commission adjusts, expands senior tax credit process
A previously passed state law enacting a property tax freeze for seniors created enough confusion that Missouri lawmakers passed additional legislation this year adjusting the process. The Greene County Commission on Thursday morning officially adopted its own revisions making the tax freeze available to more local residents. This was the first year that Greene County seniors had the opportunity to apply for the tax relief, which comes in the form of an annual tax credit. After the...
Ozark Electric Cooperative members caught off guard by new demand fee
Since the start of April, members of the Ozark Electric Cooperative (OEC) saw a new charge on their monthly bills — a demand charge. This charge is based on the maximum drawn power averaged from a 15-minute block in a month, meaning the highest amount of power that a household uses within 15 minutes of the month is charged on top of the total kilowatts per hour rate that is traditionally charged. The OEC includes 27,000 meters...
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