Public Service Announcement: Bates County Nostalgia Band In Concert Tonight

The Bates County Nostalgia Band in concert at Butler City Park tonight, Monday, July 28 @ 7:00 pm. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy the music, and ice cream will be available too. Hope to see ya there!!

Obituary - Ralph Dean Heckadon

 Ralph Dean Heckadon, Carthage and formerly of the Bates County area, passed away Saturday, July 26, at Freeman-West Hospital, Joplin, at the age of 86. Arrangements are under direction of Heuser Funeral Home, Rich Hill, and services are scheduled at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 30, at the funeral home with burial to follow in the Green Lawn Cemetery, Rich Hill. 

The family receives friends between one and two o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Heuser Funeral Home

Butler Police Department looking for Stolen Trailer

The Butler Police Department took a report this morning of a stolen 1989 5x12 homemade utility trailer which is white in color. 

The trailer was stolen sometime this weekend between Friday and today from the corner of Prospect Street and Mill Street In Butler. If you see this trailer please contact the Butler Police Department 660-679-6131.

DON'T FORGET! Sales tax holiday this coming weekend...

The Missouri 'back to school' sales tax holiday begins on the first Friday in August and continues through the following Sunday. This year, the three-day holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 1, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 3. Certain back-to-school purchases, such as clothing, school supplies, computers, and other items as defined by the statute, are exempt from sales tax for this time period only. Get more info on the DOR web site here, and the video below will also tell you more:

Bates County Sheriffs Office Activity Report 7/21 - 7/ 27 - 2014

BATES COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE ACTIVITY REPORT

July 21, 2014 ANIMAL AT LARGE – AMSTERDAM AMBULANCE REQUEST – RICH HILL On 7/21/14 Deputies responded to a Deceased person in rural Rich Hill. CALL FOR SERVICE– PASSAIC CHECK WELL BEING – ADRIAN WANTED SUBJECT – RICH HILL CALL FOR SERVICE – ADRIAN TRAFFIC STOP – BUTLER SPEAK TO OFFICER – BUTLER DOMESTIC – RICH HILL CIVIL SITUATION – BUTLER

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Free Hair Cuts For Ballard R-2 Students K-12

FREE HAIR CUTS! Jenny Reid and Jill Hill of Studio 201 Salon & Tanning, Adrian, MO, will be offering free hair cuts to Ballard R-2 students, K-12, on Saturday August 9th, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. at Fairview Baptist Church. First come/first served. Please come with freshly washed hair.

Also, Fairview will be glad to help with school supplies. if you need assistance with school supplies, please call Kerri Loyd at Ballard R-2 School, 816-297-2656 ext. 103.

2 people killed in Vernon County Accident

Two drivers were killed and three passengers in one vehicle were taken to a Joplin hospital after a two-vehicle, head-on collision Sunday afternoon on I-49 one mile North of Sheldon. 

The Missouri Highway Patrol says the accident happened about 1:30 p.m. when a 1999 Buick Century, driven by 92-year-old Dorothy T. Cross, Sheldon,Missouri was headed North in the South-bound lanes of I-49 and collided head-on with a 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by 57-year-old Douglas Young, Mullen, Nebraska. 

Trooper Jason Krehbiel says the drivers were pronounced dead at the scene by Vernon County deputy coroner Thomas Hieber. 

Three passengers in the Mercury Grand Marquis -- 56-year-old Marie Young, 15-year-old Daniel Young and 21-year-old Tricia Young, all of Mullen, Nebraska, were taken to Freeman-West Hospital with serious injuries.