Lamar News

IRS launches summer push to reach retirees and disabled veterans who have yet to file for their economic stimulus payments ST.

By Mike Surbrugg msurbrugg@joplinglobe.com LAMAR, Mo. - David Sheat wants to harvest wheat while the sun shines.

By Richard Cooper LAMAR - As the Lamar Fire Protection Service Area prepares to become operational, another boundary with a neighboring service area must be determined.

Explore the steps to starting a new business with the University of Missouri Extension's "Starting a Small Business: The First Steps" class from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 10, at the Wolf Center ...

Cape Girardeau County has been put on a rabies alert by state health officials, primarily as a precautionary measure; rabies activity has been detected in this county.

Alana Little of Lamar, Mo. competed at the Wheat State Regional MHS horse show held in Hutchinson, Ka.n on June 11th through the 15th, and finished first in the equitation class Hunter on the Flat.

A graveside committal service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Golden City, for Milton Glee Wright, 83, Lamar, who died at 12:18 a.m. Sunday, June 22, 2008, at Truman Healthcare ...

Guardsmen with Company A of the 311th Brigade Support Battalion, from Nevada and Lamar, the 548th Transportation Company from Centertown, and the 205th MP Battalion from St.

A child was seriously injured Wednesday night when a motorcycle she was riding on crashed, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

Services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 5, 2008, at Robert E. Dailey & Son Funeral Homes, P.A., for J. Russell Johanson, 86, Thurmont, who died Sunday, June 1, 2008, at his home.

Some products on the market promise to help a roof stand up to storms. Brad Madsen, with H and S Contracting, said he isn't convinced that any home can be made totally storm proof, but he said that some ...

According to Tom Ryan, emergency management director, 39 spotters were out on the job, and for each of the storms that have struck the area recently nearly that many were in the field for each one.

LAMAR - An unexplained problem experienced by KAMO between Jasper and Carthage caused approximately a 90-minute interruption in electric service to Lamar customers around the noon hour, Thursday.

By DOUG DAVIS Democrat publisher A history of the Lamar Masonic Lodge written by Floyed Eaves has just been published.

It's strawberry season, and I'm on a nostalgia kick. My grandmother had a jumbo patch behind Granddad's coon dog pen on their farm near Lamar, Mo.

The hearing will be held in Barton County on July 3 at 10 a.m. Judge Gerald MacBeth set the date last week.

LAMAR, Mo. - If music can soothe the savage soul, can it make the wheat grow? Probably not, but David Tague, who is in charge of University of Missouri wheat test plots at various locations around the state ...

The Barton County Sheriff's Department has released the names of two people involved in a shooting over the weekend.

An early morning crash leaves one man dead in Barton county. Just before 1 a.m. this morning Ryan Chapman of Stigler, Oklahoma was traveling northbound on US Highway 71 south of Lamar with his two children and ...

An Oklahoma driver was killed and three young passengers injured early Saturday in Barton County when their vehicle went off the road, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.