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Exeter hoopster awarded in Aurora
Kylee Cole, of Exeter, raked in a bushel of postseason awards for her basketball play at Aurora this year. Cole averaged 20.9 points per game, 5.2 rebounds per game, 2.1 assists per game and 1.8 steals per game. She made 112 three-pointers shooting at a 37.5% clip, setting a new school record making her 9th all-time in single season three-pointers made. Cole’s 626 points also puts her 42nd all-time in Missouri single-season scoring. Cole helped the Lady Houn’ Dawgs to a 25-5 season, a school record for wins, and a second consecutive district championship, the first Aurora repeat in history. For her efforts, Cole was named First Team All-Big 8 East, MBCA Class 4 District 12 All-District Team and Player of the Year, MBCA Class 4 All-State, 4SBCA First Team All-Area, Springfield News-Leader Dominant Dozen Team and All-O-Zone Honorable Mention. Cole is the daughter of Jason and Tracie Cole and the granddaughter of Linda and the Lat eJohn Cole, and Howard and Jackie Burns, of Exeter.
All Roads Lead Home mural series
Raine Clotfelter, America’s muralist, is shown with the latest mural in the All Roads Lead Home series in Aurora. This mural has two large panels that will be installed on the north side of the Aurora Houn’ Dawg Alumni & Outreach Center in the coming weeks. Plans are...
Rural Philanthropy Summit
A team of Aurora folks attended the Rural Philanthropy Summit on May 8 at the Oasis Hotel & Convention Center in Springfield. The theme was “Creating Thriving Communities” and it was co-hosted by the Community Foundation of the Ozarks and Philanthropy Missouri. On hand for Aurora were: Kim...
City of Cassville receives $20,000 grant from CFO
The City of Cassville received a $20,000 grant from the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, in partnership with the Louis L. and Julia Dorothy Coover Charitable Foundation and Commerce Trust, on April 30. The grant will allow the city to resurface and repurpose the city park’s tennis courts into four...
Mt. Vernon woman charged with conspiracy to buy lottery tickets with stolen credit cards
A Mt. Vernon woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for leading a conspiracy to buy nearly 2,000 lottery tickets with stolen credit cards, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Amy Young, 31, was charged in a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand...
Athletes of the Week: Morgan Zinn, Zachary Lee and Kronikel Lokot, Exeter baseball
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - In Exeter, championships have been hard to come by. It’s what makes the Tigers baseball district title this year so special. “We started to end up with a large stack of district runners-up and three of those came to Billings,” said Exeter Head Coach Matt Tripp.
Celebrate Recovery on KSN Living Well
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