Area youth are invited to an archery clinic and an archery shoot Dec. 13. The clinic, for ages 10 to 15, runs from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at Giboney Cave Outdoor Classroom, Doling Park, 301 E. Talmage St., a news release said from Mel Johnson of the Springfield Greene County Park Board said.

U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry Regiment, headquartered at Ft.

Crime Stoppers is asking for help locating Carlton Williamson. Williamson is wanted in Greene County on charges of violating his parole, forgery, resisting arrest, second-degree robbery and multiple misdemeanors.

At 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Louis and Dorothy Coover Regional Grantmaking Program, a partnership between Community Foundation of the Ozarks and Commerce Trust Company, will award $109,475 in grants to eight agencies serving the Missouri Ozarks, according to a news release.

A mother needs a tutor for her third-grader. A senior citizen needs free tax-preparation assistance.

A woman whose pit bull authorities say killed a neighbor's Chihuahua last week turned herself in to the Greene County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday.

The Master Gardeners of Greene County are starting a series of gardening classes open to the public at Rutledge-Wilson Community Farm Park, 3825 W. Farm Rd.

On Nov. 2, I outlined to the Greene County Planning and Zoning commissioners the elements of an actual land planning document.

The Springfield-Greene County Park Board's Cruse Dog Park reached a significant milestone late Monday afternoon, registering its 1,000th dog for use of the six-acre off-leash dog facility, according to a news release.

The Greene County Highway Department is touting a proposed east-west four-lane road in the far southern part of the county as a way to ease traffic congestion on the south side of Springfield.

A Springfield woman has been charged with misdemeanor animal abuse after her pit bull allegedly attacked and killed two of her neighbors' dogs.

More than 6,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine arrived today in Greene County and another shipment of equal size is expected to arrive within days, according to Springfield-Greene County Health Department spokeswoman Jaci McReynolds.

The Greene County Highway Department will host an open house for the public to view proposed alternate alignments for a future east-west arterial road 4-6 p.m. tomorrow at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center, 4600 S. Chrisman Ave.

Police are investigating whether bail bond agents in southwest Missouri acted inappropriately when they raided the wrong house, frightening a couple and their three teenage children.

Greene County authorities have seized the pit bull mix neighbors say killed and injured dogs in their neighborhood Tuesday, and will present a case to the prosecutor that the animal has been abused, said Capt.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will start enforcing water well reporting rules, DNR chief Mark Templeton said Friday.

A Bois D'Arc man died Friday night when he was hit by a car while walking on a Greene County highway, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

With the economy still sagging and sales tax revenues down 10 percent, Greene County officials are bracing for another tight budget in 2010.

Greene County Presiding Commissioner Dave Coonrod will present the annual State of the County address to the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce at 7:45 a.m. Thursday at the Greene County Highway Department, 2065 N. Clifton Ave.

Greene County sheriff's deputies told a woman who lives just outside the Springfield city limits to get rid of a pit bull or be served with a court order seizing the dog.