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• Sanders discusses role as executive director at Ozark Action November 21, 2019
  WEST PLAINS, Mo. — Terry Sanders has been named the new executive director of Ozark Action. Sanders told Ozark Radio News that he’s happy to be running the organization he’s worked at for almost 40 years: He added that the services Ozark Action provides has shifted a lot over the years, from direct assistance to […]
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• MDC reports elk poached in Carter County November 21, 2019
  VAN BUREN, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation is asking the public for information regarding a female adult elk found shot and left for dead Monday morning on National Park Service property near the end of M Highway in Carter County. No meat or other parts of the animal were taken. By the time […]
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• WPHS principal retiring following current school year November 21, 2019
  WEST PLAINS, Mo. — West Plains High School principal Jack Randolph will be retiring at the end of the school year. The West Plains R-7 Board of Education approved his resignation at their board meeting November 13. Randolph was made the principal at West Plains High School in 2012 and was the Dean of Students […]
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• Local boil order lifted November 21, 2019
  WEST PLAINS, Mo. — A boil water order issued for some patrons of Howell County Public Water Supply District #2 has been lifted. The boil order was officially lifted on Wednesday, November 20, and was originally issued November 15. The order, issued due to an emergency leak repair, affected water patrons on the west system […]
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• Grass, truck fire in West Plains Wednesday November 21, 2019
  WEST PLAINS, Mo. — The West Plains Fire Department responded to two fires on Wednesday. The first call came in around 1:23 pm of a grass fire off of Bill Virdon Blvd. Firefighters arrived to find a small grass fire that had been started by a controlled burn that blown out of control by the […]
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