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Today's News

  • Amphitheater Work Underway

    Construction workers were literally hanging from the rafters of the Davies Amphitheater last week as extensive restoration work on the 33-year-old facility got underway.

    “Things are moving along down there pretty well,” Davies Amphitheater manager Gordon Woodrow said Monday. “I guess we’re talking another couple weeks for this first phase.”

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  • Barrus Road Truck Traffic Fuels Concerns

    MINEOLA - Mills County Engineer Kevin Mayberry said his office has fielded numerous complaints about the heavy truck traffic on Barrus Road, but believes the concerns expressed by area residents are being addressed.

    “We do deal with complaints, pretty much every week,” Mayberry said. “There are things we try to address and make adjustments on.”

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  • City Awards Library Roof Bid

    The much-debated roof repair work at the Glenwood Public Library will be completed this summer.

    The Glenwood City Council accepted the bid of $97,866 from Omaha-based R.L. Craft Co. at its regular meeting last Tuesday, May 28.

    The project includes repairs and replacement of the library’s roof, relocation of three air conditioners from the roof of the library to the ground level and brick restoration work on the outside of the building.

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  • Main Street Restoration

    MALVERN - In an effort to revitalize the business district in Malvern, the Malvern Area Betterment Association (MABA) has accepted ownership of two neglected buildings located at 401 and 403 Main Street.
     
    Both buildings have been vacant for many years and have fallen into disrepair. The previous owner of the buildings donated both structures, first erected in 1895 and 1910, to MABA earlier this spring. The 401 Main brick structure housed First National Bank in earlier years while the 403 Main building is commonly referred to as the “Wagon Wheel.”

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  • Courthouse Completion In August

    The renovation and construction work taking place at the Mills County Courthouse is on schedule to be completed this summer.

    Mills County Supervisor Richard Crouch and Mills County Auditor Carol Robertson said the addition to the east side of the building and renovation work taking place within the existing structure is expected to be completed in August.

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  • Artist In Residence

    MALVERN - Artist Zack Jones has worked in various mediums.

    Digital animation, watercolor, film, pen and ink, oil on canvas.

    Nowhere on that list does “139-year-old former Presbyterian church” appear.

    But that is exactly the “medium” Jones is working in with his Art Church Project.
     
    Jones bought the former Presbyterian church just off Main Street in Malvern on the brick-lined street corner of Prospect and East Fourth Streets from the Malvern Historical Society last May.

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  • Relay For Life Ambassadors

    Exercise has long been known to reduce a person’s risk for getting cancer, and walking is often one of the easiest ways to exercise.

    Hundreds, potentially more than a thousand, people will walk during the 2013 Mills County Relay for Life. The event runs from 4 p.m. June 1 to 8 a.m. June 2 at Ram Memorial Field in Glenwood. Leading the event will be four Relay for Life ambassadors - Bob Blasi of Glenwood, Mary May of rural Silver City, Mary Renze of Glenwood and Roger Wyant of Malvern.

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  • Preschool Teacher Wins Lakin Award

    Northeast Elementary preschool teacher Liz Jensen is one of two recipients of the prestigious Charles E. Lakin Outstanding Teacher Award for 2013.

    A surprised Jensen was presented the award Monday afternoon at an all-school assembly in the school gymnasium.

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  • Mother, Teacher, Blogger

    A Glenwood preschool teacher and single mother of two children is making a name for herself as a blogger for a San Francisco-based website geared toward issues of interest to women.

    “The website is Lipstick and Politics and I’m not the lipstick” Bobbi Jo Rohrberg said during a recent interview.

    “I’m not into fashion and entertainment. The politics is what I like most, but I’m also a single mom who’s been through divorce so I also like to write things for co-parenting and general parenting.”

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  • Former Glenwood Heights undergoing facelift

      Jerry Moore has a vision for Glenwood Heights.
      Not the least of which was the name of the apartment complex at 301 Ebaugh St. that had fallen into disrepair and was plagued by what Moore called “a bad element” under previous owners.

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