With the beginning of the new year in January 2013, Kim Fowler, 51, was given a new diagnosis: rheumatoid arthritis. The Carl Junction resident said she still is working on the resolution she made — to lose 100 pounds — to help counteract its effects, but she is proud of her progress so far: She has lost 60.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Riverton High School marching band performs in Holiday Bowl despite theft of instruments
Workers race to complete Soaring Heights Elementary School
Soaring Heights Elementary School is a hot spot of activity this week as construction crews race to prepare the school for the first day of classes on Monday. “We’re doing construction work while the faculty’s moving into their classrooms all at the same time, so it’s a madhouse,” said Mike Johnson, the Joplin School District’s director of construction.