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The National Weather Service’s drought information statement released last week notes that, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, drought conditions have recently improved across the Missouri Ozarks and southeast Kansas due to several rounds of beneficial rainfall over the region.
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12/22/22
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Frontenac debates COLA raise
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The Frontenac City Council debated a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of three percent for city employees Monday night. A simple motion to pass or not pass quickly turned into a circular discussion about city pay scales, individual pay raises based on merit, and annual cost-of-living adjustments.
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12/22/22
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Mulberry PD reaches out for help
. . . and Angels appear
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Since becoming Mulberry’s chief of police, Joe Adelman has made it his mission to serve the people of his small town, and its surrounding area. It is not always easy in the poverty-stricken town, especially in today’s economy.
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12/22/22
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Broadway Lumber celebrates 70 years
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This year, local family-owned business Broadway Lumber celebrated seven decades of operation in Pittsburg.
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12/22/22
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More than just bells
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In the final days before Christmas, a duo of musicians carried out their annual tradition of playing various Christmas songs with unconventional instruments for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign on Wednesday afternoon.
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12/22/22
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A man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday when law enforcement located him in a closet on a rural Cherokee County property following an attempted shooting and assault incident earlier in the afternoon, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.
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12/21/22
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Breakfast with Santa at Eastside
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On what would normally be their day off, employees and staff at Girard’s Eastside Diner volunteered their time to give 130 kids and their parents a free breakfast with Santa Claus on Tuesday. Eastside owner Andrew Faucett said that each child, from four-months-old to 16 years, received their own gift, purchased with $2,500 in donations.
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12/21/22
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A Pittsburg man was arrested in Weir on Monday after he allegedly broke into a residence and law enforcement officers subsequently found him in possession of stolen property.
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12/21/22
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County renews contract with Chamber, CVB
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The Crawford County Commission voted Tuesday to renew its contract with the Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce and the Crawford County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), better known as Explore Crawford County.
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12/21/22
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Ascension Via Christi to close two departments
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In addition to closing its Behavioral Health Department at the end of December, Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg will be also closing its Occupational Health Department at the end of January.
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12/21/22
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Winter weather forecast for Thursday
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Today is officially the first day of winter, and just in time for Christmas, snowy weather to match the season appears to be on its way.
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12/21/22
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One injured in two-car crash at Quincy and 69
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The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office released information Tuesday about a two-car injury accident that took place at approximately 7 p.m. last Thursday, Dec. 15, at the intersection of U.S. 69 and East Quincy Street.
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12/21/22
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Three southwestern Missouri men have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a scheme to transport tens of thousands of stolen catalytic converters across state lines as part of a multi-million-dollar business.
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12/20/22
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A Chanute man serving with the Army National Guard was sentenced in federal court Tuesday for sexually exploiting an 11-year-old southwest Missouri victim to produce child pornography.
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12/20/22
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced Tuesday afternoon that it has rescinded a boil water advisory for the City of Galena public water supply system located in Cherokee County.
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12/20/22
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CFSEK to match $10,000 in donations for emergency shelter
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With snow and dangerously cold weather expected to arrive in Pittsburg later this week, Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas at Wesley House is continuing to work quickly to establish a temporary, 90-day emergency overnight shelter to protect Pittsburg’s most vulnerable homeless from the cold.
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12/20/22
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PAYP delivers over 100 bikes to area children
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The Pittsburg Area Young Professionals (PAYP) reached a milestone on Sunday with the delivery of 103 bicycles and helmets to area children with the help of 30 volunteers and several “sleighs.”
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12/20/22
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Stepping Up lays groundwork for new program
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Audra Goldsmith, senior policy director with the Council of State Government Justice Center, met with law enforcement, judicial officers, and mental health workers at the Crawford County Judicial Center in Pittsburg on Monday to introduce the Stepping Up program.
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12/20/22
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SEK Humane Society hosts holiday event for children
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Children and families were able to decorate ornaments and learn more about the Southeast Kansas Humane Society and the animals there at the organization’s Junior Humane Society event on Saturday.
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By Antjea Wolff / [email protected]
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12/20/22
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KCS announces Holiday Express fundraising results
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Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced Monday that the 22nd KCS Holiday Express program raised over $215,000 to benefit the Salvation Army in 20 communities in eight states where the KCS Holiday Express train stopped this year, including Pittsburg.
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12/19/22
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