Poynor, MO

Thomas “Trey” Roger Baker III, 50, of Cape Coral, FL passed away Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Maynard, Arkansas. He was born March 26, 1971, in Fort Myers, Florida to Thomas Roger II and Ronda Kathryn Zidrich Baker. Trey is survived by his parents, Thomas and Ronda Baker of Warm...

CARTER COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - Three recent cases of COVID-19 were confirmed to be the Delta variant, according to the Carter County Health Center. They said the three samples were randomly chosen from samples sent to the SPHL. The health center said with the county’s increase in cases, they are...

Unemployment claims have more than doubled in Missouri. A Heartland casino is about to get a 20-million dollar upgrade. A local Navy Veteran is giving back to his community.. The Stoddard County EMA is upgrading its storm tracking system.

POCAHONTAS, Ark. (KAIT) - At the recent Pocahontas City Council meeting, a proposal to move the city to an automated trash pickup system was brought up. This as the city hired three different people, just to have them quit the sanitation department all within the last month. “We’re having trouble...

Raymond Ferdinand Sorg, 95, of Pocahontas, Arkansas passed away on July 16, 2021 at his home. He was born September 24, 1925 in Pocahontas, Arkansas to George and Mary Thennes Sorg. He was a member of St. He was a member of St. Paul’s Catholic Church. He was a WWII...

How lucky are we to have downtown Pocahontas. It’s a 17 block National Historic District, Arkansas’s largest. How many other nationally designated sites do we have here? It’s a site of both architectural and historic significance. And with all our other visitor attractions--five rivers, hunting, many other historical sites–downtown Pocahontas is our number one visitor attraction.

Robert Wesley “Bob” Martin, 64, of Pocahontas passed away, Friday, July 16, 2021 at his home. Bob was born on September 8, 1956, to the late Lester Wilbur Martin and Earnestine (Roach) Martin in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Bob was a good man that literately would give the shirt off his back...

Finis Boyd “Bub” Sorrell, age 62, of Myrtle, Missouri, died Monday, July 19, 2021 at Ozarks Healthcare in West Plains, Missouri. Arrangements are under the direction of Carter Funeral Home, Inc. in Thayer, Missouri.

The Downtown Network of Pocahontas met Tuesday night, July 20, and voted to invite the Pop-up Peddlers to take part in the monthly Shop the Square/ Car Show event. Becky Lindner, co-chair of the Pop-up Peddlers group, asked the members of the Downtown Network to include her group to their monthly Shop the Square festivity, in hopes of creating more foot traffic and an increase in sales for all merchants, “I believe if we all work together and promote each other, we will all be a success and more people will show up on the square.” The members were in agreeance, “Anything to get more people downtown on a Saturday,’ added Downtown Network member Neal Harwell. The next Shop the Square/Car Show will be on August 14th.