POINT LOOKOUT, Mo. — Tara McCloskey, the sixth-born child in her family of 10, grew up wanting to go to college but wondering how it would ever be affordable.
NEOSHO, Mo. ― Morse Park in Neosho was filled with music and camaraderie on Saturday during the fifth annual Four-States Armed Forces Music Festival as the community honored active and retired military personnel.
I’m really going way out on a limb here, but I think Joplin’s new MacCheesy restaurant, which will open in mid-September, could be a breakthrough concept.
For more than 40 years, Al Capp’s comic strip “Li’l Abner” ran in the pages of The Joplin Globe. The strip began in 1934. The Globe introduced readers to the residents of Dogpatch on Dec. 18, 1936. The strip continued…