Diggins News

Eight-year-old fiddling prodigy plays in Diggins this weekend Brett Dudenhoeffer is an 8-year-old boy with a disarming grin and a love of fries with catsup.

Statewide, unemployment is at 8.7 percent From Webster County's perspective, President Barack Obama's economic-stimulus bill isn't helping.

Three of four incumbents for school-board seats in Fordland and Seymour went down in defeat Tuesday.

The National Weather Service in Springfield has issued a severe thunderstorm warning and says the severe thunderstorms wil be near Fordland by 8:50 p.m., Diggins by 8:55, Ava and Marshfield by 9, Seymour and Niangua by 9:05, Conway by 9:10 and Mansfield by 9:15.

Foolish festival fracas Seldom do we respond to readers' letters. We'll make the exception this time, as the letter writer in our March 11 edition, Seymour's Phyllis Herring, specifically asked us to 'investigate the situation and present the ins and outs of the organization that controls the festival.' The festival referred to in the previous ...

House Speaker Ron Richard is keynote speaker; former State Treasurer Wendell Bailey also comes to town Webster County's Republican Central Committee brings its annual 'Lincoln Day' to Seymour this Saturday at the Seymour R-II School District's middle- and high-school cafeteria.

The Webster County Commission last week purchased a historical building just off the Marshfield square.

A one-day certified concealed-carry class is set this Saturday and Sunday at the Paul and Robin Ipock farm, located about two miles north of Diggins on Highway O. The class starts at 9 a.m. each day and ...

Starting off the column this week are a couple of salutes. Commuting to work is a way of life for the majority of folks who live in Webster County, and highways into Springfield are vital lifelines to a ...

More than two weeks after filing opened for the April 7, 2009, general municipal election, many seats have not yet been sought.