Carl Junction News

Mind you, what we write here are not predictions for 2010. They are some things for which we can hope, for all Americans.

Folks involved in the giving business tend to live from year to year. Some years, you figure the giving will come easy.

Globe/B.W. Shepherd The Pemberton family, of Carl Junction, used a red sleigh as a backdrop for a photo Friday in Spiva Park.

With Christmas only a couple of days away the postal service is working 24/7 to get your packages to their final destinations.

A few months ago, Marisha Marney was failing most of her classes. But Monday, the day before Carl Junction schools let out for Christmas break, Marney, a high school freshman, proudly told Sharon Clark over lunch from Randy's Drive-In that she expects to pass most of her classes this semester.

A public memorial service is set for evangelist Oral Roberts at the Tulsa university that bears his name.

As the temperature dipped below freezing Monday, hundreds of students - bundled snugly in winter coats - marched down Pennell Street carrying canned and boxed food items.

By Jeff Lehr jlehr@joplinglobe.com CARL JUNCTION, Mo. - A rural Carl Junction man is facing multiple charges in the alleged Thursday afternoon torching of his trailer home and vehicle.

Police are investigating a domestic disturbance that caused a Jasper County, Missouri woman to lose her home.

The Carl Junction City Council on Tuesday night approved a lease between the city and Blooch Brothers LLC, represented by brothers Derek Collier and Ryan Collier, for the property at 1203 E. Pennell Ave., which currently houses the senior center.

Kindergartners and first graders watched as Santa and his reindeer made their way to Carl Junction on Friday.

A petition seeking to establish a Community Improvement District in Carl Junction's Briarbrook neighborhood was delivered Monday to City Hall, said Toby Teeter, leader of the petition drive.

TuesdayA1s Joplin Globe and online at joplinglobe.com . Petition to establish improvement district around Briarbrook delivered to Carl Junction South Middle School on track for January opening Council to hold hearing for FAG Bearings Corp.

CARL JUNCTION, Mo. - A petition seeking to establish a Community Improvement District in Carl Junction's Briarbrook neighborhood has been delivered to City Hall, City Administrator Steve Lawver said this morning.

Some Carl Junction residents take a step toward the purchase of the Briarbrook Golf Course.

Any wartime political or military leader must routinely confront the question of whether to advance, remain in place or retreat.

Globe/T. Rob Brown Creed Ritter, a Carl Junction School District second-grader, pours a solution Wednesday in science class, with a little help from Christi Bennett, teacherA's assistant.

Joplin Globe A Carl Junction man was assessed a suspended sentence Monday on a conviction for felony assault in the stabbing of another man in downtown Joplin.

A 22-year-old man was assessed a suspended sentence Monday in Jasper County Circuit Court in Joplin on a felony conviction for domestic assault.

Globe/T. Rob Brown Carl Junction Postmaster Sharon Clark displays a sheet of breast cancer awareness stamps.