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Saturday’s championship round of the annual Southern Boone Classic will be an all Eagles evening as the SoBoCo boys joined the girls team in the championship finals by defeating rivals Hallsville on Thursday evening by a 54-46 score. The Eagles boys will face Fulton in the championship game. The Hornets defeated Boonville 64-56 in the

The least surprising thing about Maguire Scheer scoring 52 points in SoBoCo’s 82-40 win over Linn in the first round of the Southern Boone Classic on Tuesday is that Scheer gave all of the credit to his teammates. But Scheer’s 52 points – breaking all sorts of records – was not just a credit to

The Southern Boone Fire Protection District found itself going in two different directions at the same time on Monday afternoon. Two natural cover fires were called to the fire department just before 5 p.m., one on Nashville Church Road, west of Ashland, and the other on Hawkins Road, east of Ashland off of Route Y.

What would improve your quality of life? That’s the question Daniel Boone Regional Library staff will be asking at a series of public community conversations to be held in Boone and Callaway Counties. Everyone is invited to attend one of the public gatherings or to answer a brief online survey this February. The Ashland meetings

“Right to work” legislation took another step toward becoming law on Thursday when the state Senate voted 21-12 in favor of abolishing mandatory union fees. The vote came after several days of a filibuster during which opponents made impassioned speeches against the measure and offered amendments that were repeatedly rejected. The Senate’s version of the

New Southern District Boone County Commissioner Fred Parry floated a trial balloon to the Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau on Monday, favoring a new sales tax to support improvements at the Boone County Fairgrounds. Parry’s plan includes a three-eighths-cent sales tax, which would expire in three years and raise $9 to $12 million dollars in

Republican State Committeewoman Sara Walsh will represent the GOP in the August 8, 2017 special election to fill the 50th District vacancy in the Missouri House of Representatives. She was chosen by acclamation, on Saturday, during a meeting of the party’s 50th District Legislative Committee, in Ashland. Walsh is running to fill a vacancy created

Eagles boys and girls haven’t won the Classic in same year since 1987. While Southern Boone High School athletics has a long history, perhaps no other single event compares with the Southern Boone Classic Basketball Tournament. “The Classic brings in a lot of good area teams,” said for Eagles player and alum and basketball fanatic

Community Meeting Regarding Lot 7 Commerce Park Thursday, January 27 @ 7pm at the Ashland Senior Center

If you long for the days when the school year started after Labor Day, then SoBoCo Superintendent has a school calendar for you. The Southern Boone 2017-2018 school calendar was briefly presented to the SoBoCo School Board last Tuesday during their January meeting. Felmlee walked the school board through the calendar and will ask them