Carl Junction
Politics
On this Memorial Day weekend, a civic prayer for the living and the dead
By the Sunday before Memorial Day my father would already have the flowers set out on the family graves. He would have called the flowers “decorations,” because being an original Ozarker he knew the holiday by its old name. The relatives whose remains were held safe by these grassy plots had been gone for years, […] The post On this Memorial Day weekend, a civic prayer for the living and the dead appeared first on Source New Mexico.
Honoring Civil War Veteran Isaac Daniel at the nearly forgotten Short Creek Cemetery
JASPER COUNTY, Mo. (KOAM) - The Jasper County Preservation Society recently located a Civil War Veterans gravesite during clean up at Short Creek Cemetery in the Galena Township, located in the western part of Jasper County.
Joplin Parks Department updates tree inventory with conservation grant
JOPLIN, Mo. (KOAM) - The City of Joplin Parks and Recreation Department is updating its tree inventory in city parks, funded by a Missouri Department of Conservation Community Forestry grant. This grant allows for assessing tree conditions and structural risks, aiding in effective tree care planning.
Site of historic Connor Hotel in Joplin went from public library to a planned Science Center
The Connor Hotel was a beaux-arts style building located at 324 Main Street in Joplin, Missouri (Jasper County). It was constructed between 1906 and 1908. This building will be remembered for its unforeseen collapse in 1978 killing two men, one day before it was scheduled to be demolished. It had been previously listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 28, 1973.
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