Shirley Anne “Elliott” Pyle, 86, passed away Friday, August 3, 2018 at her home in Carthage.

Edna Leona Maggard, 92, passed away August 4, 2018 at Carthage Health & Rehabilitation in Carthage, MO.

George D. Heisten, 76, passed away Wednesday, August 1, 2018 in El Dorado Springs, MO.

University of Missouri Extension in Jasper County is sponsoring a Missouri Master Gardener training program, beginning September 11, and winding up in mid-October.

Family members and friends of Sami Bayless are holding a fundraiser beginning at 4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5 to help raise money for her family as they care for the Greenfield teenager in the wake of a devastating car crash

The former Secretary of the Jasper R-5 Board of Education will serve two and a half years in prison for embezzling $145,716.81 from the district between 2013 and Sept. 22, 2016, when she resigned.

Almost everything about Marian Days 2018 is similar to past festivals, with one big exception. The Vietnamese Roman Catholic Congregation that hosts the massive pilgrimage in Carthage is hosting its first Marian Days under its new name, The Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer, or CMR.

Clerk’s offices open Saturday 8 a.m.-noon for absentee voting, polls open 6 a.m. Tuesday. With the primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 7, Jasper County voters will be choosing new faces to run for office in November with a spate of retirements on the county level, and term limits forcing change on the state level.

Terrian Williams, Joplin, and Jim Smith, Webb City, came to the Lincoln Ladies Ice Cream Social seeking clarity as they prepared to vote in the Aug. 7 primary election for national, state and county offices.

Victor “Bit” D. Strickland, 57, Carthage, MO, passed away Monday evening, July 30, 2018 at Carthage Health and Rehab, Carthage.