Wentworth News

Although the front of the gymnasium building at Pierce City High School is changing this week with the addition of a music and fine arts wing, covering the south door, shown above, additional construction was nixed by voters who did not provide a four-sevenths majority for the $3.9 million bond issue on yesterday's ballot.

A Wentworth man pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced charge of resisting of arrest and was assessed a suspended sentence.

Nine people were injured in several area traffic wrecks since last Friday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol issued the following reports: A Monett man was hurt in a one-vehicle crash at 3:10 a.m. Saturday four miles south of Monett on Barry County Farm Road 2050.

A high-speed crash in Newton County left one Monett man seriously injured and two other Monett residents with injuries Friday night, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

A motorcycle rider from Mount Vernon suffered serious injuries in a Wednesday afternoon crash about a mile and a half west of Pierce City, according to a report from the Missouri Highway Patrol.