Freistatt News

Officers for the coming year and awards for service during the past year were announced by the Freistatt Lions Club at its annual Charter Night.

Plans for a crosswalk and a proposed sidewalk by the Freistatt Post Office will move forward but somewhat differently, according to the report made at the Freistatt Village Board's June meeting.

This week high school boys who will be seniors this fall will be heading to Warrensburg for the 70th annual session of Boys State, slated for June 13-20 at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg.

Infrastructure and property clean-up were top priority for the Freistatt Village Board of Trustees at its May meeting.

The Barry-Lawrence County Development Center recently received a $1,000 donation from the Freistatt Lions Club.

CUTLINES With their arms raised, symbolic of roof tresses, the Fred and Carrie Jobe family stood at the center of the new Habitat for Humanity home in Monett during groundbreaking ceremonies.

Plans for a crosswalk across Highway H at the post office in Freistatt moved forward through discussion with officials from the Missouri Department of Transportation at the March meeting of the Freistatt village board.

The Freistatt Lions recently donated $1,000 to help the Loaves and Fishes program in Monett.

A number of races for ambulance and road district commissioners as well as fire districts and nursing home boards will be on the ballot around the bi-county area on Tuesday.

The scene above showed the heavy turnout at last November's election at the Monett City Park Casino.

The Freistatt Lions donated $750 recently to the Braille Center book making operation run by volunteers through St.

Plans for the coming year and recent activities of the Monett Chamber of Commerce were discussed at the annual meeting of the incoming and outgoing boards of directors, held recently at Biermann's restaurant in Freistatt.

Christopher Smith held his trophy and monetary prize for winning the Joplin Globe's Spelling Bee.

Elected to continue leading the Loaves and Fishes meal program for another year were Co-Chairmen Larry Shanks at left and Mary K. Scott at right.

By spelling litterateur and basilica, Christopher Smith, of Monett, became the champion of The Joplin Globe's 2009 Spelling Bee.