Willard News

The Willard Board of Aldermen will have a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at Willard City Hall, 224 W. Jackson Street, Willard, according to the city's Web site.

A small, extinct town near Willard with a natural spring believed to have healing powers has been designated a Greene County Historic Site.

I was in Willard, Missouri today, due to incredible luck and a touch of planning, where I attended a large family reunion for descendants of George and Ann Prior Jarvis .

Willard -- Dairyman Mark Thomson surveyed Greene County's proposed Land Use Plan Tuesday and said it was still too intrusive for his tastes.

It will be at least several weeks before the Ottawa County District Attorney's office can determine whether criminal charges will be sought against a Willard, Mo., man whose tractor trailer allegedly plowed into multiple vehicles Friday afternoon, killing 10 people.

The death toll from a chain-reaction collision in northeast Oklahoma, which began when a tractor-trailer slammed into cars stopped for a previous accident, climbed to 10 on Sunday.Shelby Hayes, 35, of Frisco, Texas, died about 7 a.m. at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.

The Greene County Planning and Zoning Department, in conjunction with the Greene County Planning Board and the Land Use Plan Task Force, will host the second of two informational open houses at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, at Willard High School Commons, 515 E. Jackson St., Willard, for the public to review elements of the proposed Greene County Land Use ...

The City of Willard is designating the Willard Recreation Center at 133 North Route Z as a cooling center today and Thursday.

Watch for this area road work today : - One eastbound lane of Chestnut Expressway closed, West Avenue to Kansas Expressway.

The city of Willard's Parks and Recreation Department will hold its first triathlon Saturday, and officials expect a few traffic delays.

A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for northern Greene County and southern Polk County until 6:45 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

A Walnut Grove woman was taken to St. John's Hospital in Springfield tonight after a crash in Greene County.

The Greene County Commission has come out against a proposed $8.5 million bond issue to improve wastewater systems in Willard.

A brief closing of both eastbound lanes of Interstate 44 at Glenstone heads the list of road work in Greene County in the week ahead.

The city of Willard is rushing to gain approval for an $8,500,000 bond issue to build, operate and maintain a sewage treatment plant.

A proposal to build a new sewage treatment plant in Willard is drawing concerns about its potential impact on streams and groundwater, and whether it's even needed.

Willard city voters on Tuesday, June 2 will vote on a bond referendum to build a sewage treatment plant just south of the Willard city limits.

The Willard High School class of 1969 will hold its 40-year reunion July 25 at The Cafe banquet building next to the Courtyard Marriott, 3527 W. Kearney St.

A former Greenfield High School teacher facing felony rape and sodomy charges in Dade and Lawrence counties now faces a statutory rape charge in Greene County.

I am proud to live in the Ozarks. When it comes to protecting water quality I believe local residents are some of the most aware in the country.