Norwood News

Ozark County News Nov. 7, 1895 A horse was stolen from Cal Rippey one night about the 26th of October at Harve Shepard's barn 12 miles north of town.

The Norwood School District will not hold classes for the rest of the week because of a high number of absences.

A jury found a woman from Mountain Grove guilty of three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault.

A fire that broke out on the square in Mountain Grove is under control, according to Dispatcher Paul Zieber of the Mountain Grove Police Department.

Gov. Jay Nixon has ordered that flags on state buildings in Wright County be flown at half-staff until Sunday to honor a soldier killed in Afghanistan.

A Mansfield man has been cast in a lead role in the musical "Beauty and The Beast" to be presented by The Performing Arts Council of the Ozarks beginning July 30 in the Cabool High School Gymnasium.

It appears that some of the best evidence to date that animal mutations locally are being conducted by 'bright lights in the sky' is now in the hands of investigators from the Mutual UFO Network .

This past Feb. 9 dawned damp and cold on a farm northeast of Norwood. But something strange happened the night to a beef cow owned by Gayland and June Jones.

Watch for slow-moving stripers today on state routes and ramps in the Springfield area.

A couple of weeks ago in this column, I mentioned that our neighbors in Wright County were dealing with several cattle mutilations.