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Month: June 2025

Happy 100th Birthday Barbara Ashworth!

100th Birthday Celebration! Barbara Ashworth will turn 100 on July 2, 2025. She was born in Junction City, Kansas, on July 2, 1925. Barbara is a retired teacher from Mark Twain Elementary and wife of George, deceased VP of Missouri Western State College. All friends, students, and associates are invited to come and celebrate Barbara’s

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Great Plains News Digest

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Great Plains News Digest

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Great Plains News Digest

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Great Plains News Digest

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Mark and Kathy Olvera celebrate 50 years!

Mark and Kathy (O’Rourke) Olvera are celebrating 50 years of marriage on June 21, 2025. They were married in 1975. They have four children, nine grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter: Carlos and Jill Olvera and daughters Ryan and Reese; Amy and Nathan Barron and daughters Claudia (Jakob) and Torri, and son, Jakob (Sam) and daughter, Jasmyn;

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Deadline is Aug. 18 for Arbor Awards of Excellence nominations

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Community Forestry Council (MCFC) are accepting nominations for the 2025 Missouri Arbor Award of Excellence. The annual award recognizes communities, institutions, businesses, organizations and individuals that make significant and long-lasting efforts to care for trees in their communities. The Arbor Award of

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MDC and partner organizations dedicate two new conservation areas in the Grand River Grasslands Priority Geography on June 18

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) partnered with Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever (PF/QF), The Nature Conservancy, and local landowners to dedicate two new conservation areas on Wednesday, June 18, in Harrison County. Both projects were made possible through PF/QF’s Build a Wildlife Area program and granted to MDC for permanent ownership and

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Nero’s ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York meet in `The Comet/Poppea’ at Lincoln Center

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nero’s ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” and George E. Lewis’ “The Comet,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist this year. The mashup conceived by director Yuval Sharon

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