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Fear at Osage Beach Alderman Meeting

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Some Osage Beach residents and business owners voiced their anger and fears of the Osage Beach police department Thursday night at a board of alderman meeting at city hall.

 

      JOHN ROGGER EXPLAINS

 Chief Severson told the board that he would continue reviewing traffic stop records, audio recordings and video at random which is the standard operating procedure of the Osage Beach police department.

Sunny Slope Sewer

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Some residents of sunny slope are upset about the rising cost of sewer service;

Lake Sun reporter Rance Burger explains why an outcry led the Camden county sewer board to take a step back before raising rates.

      Rance Burger Explains Situation

The Camden county sewer board meets on august 18th, the board will call a special evening meeting once the consultants finish their evaluation of sunny slope.

Department Of Natural Resources

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The department of natural resources had two incidents at the Lake of the Ozarks over this past week.

 DNR is currently overseeing a cleanup of a fuel leak from Barry’s z-mart on highway 7 and route z in climax springs. An investigation found at least one of the fuel lines at the convenience store to be leaking. The department will be determining how much of the fuel entered a local waterway and what environmental damaged may have been caused. The second incident involves shamrock point homeowners association for numerous violations of the Missouri clean water law at its wastewater treatment facility. The DNR inspected the facility in October and again in April, documenting in both inspections that the association failed to submit a complete application for a construction permit for installing dechlorination or ammonia removal improvements. Staff also found the facility does not have proper sampling port or a flow measure device. The department has referred this matter directly to the Missouri state attorney general’s office.

Local Area Drug Bust

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A joint investigation between the mid Missouri drug task force and the Lake Ozark police department resulted in an arrest for felony possession of marijuana Thursday.

19 year old Andrew Evans of horseshoe bend was stopped by the Osage beach police department narcotics canine. Police searched Evans vehicle and discovered a felony amount of marijuana inside the vehicle. Evans was transported to the miller county sheriff’s department pending application of warrants. More arrests are expected to be made in the upcoming weeks.

MU offer’s Master Gardener Courses

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The university of Missouri extension will be offering master gardener training at the Dallas county career center this fall.

This multi week class will begin with orientation on august 26th followed by 11 three hour classes on specified Tuesday or Thursday evenings at 6pm from august 31st through October 28th.  Brie menoulet, an agronomy specialist with the university of Missouri extension says, “participating in the master gardener volunteer program is a great opportunity for gardening enthusiasts to share knowledge and skills with others in their neighborhoods and communities” after completion of the training program, master gardeners become volunteers of the university extension and donate volunteer hours for community educational projects. There is a course fee which covers the 33 hours of instruction and materials. Registration and fee must be received by august 13th. For more information or to register call the hickory county MU extension center at 417-745-6767 or visit extension.missouri.edu/hickory for a complete training schedule.

Open house on new highway

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The Missouri department of transportation will be holding an open-house public hearing on Tuesday august 10th to discuss the design for a new four lane highway connecting us route 54 to the Lake of the Ozarks community bridge facility.

The present roadway project is approximately two miles long and estimated to cost $12.6 millions dollars. When the road is complete it is to be named route 242. The hearing will be held from 4 to 6:30pm in the gymnasium of the mills elementary building located on the school of the Osage campus at 1571 Bagnell dam blvd in lake Ozark. For more information or if you are disabled and require special services at the hearing, please call 1-8880-ask-modot.

Local Candidates Meet With You

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As august 3rd elections close in many folks are wondering how they can talk to the candidates in their district to help them decide their official vote.

One group has made things a tad bit easier for folks to do just that. The Waynesville-St. Robert seniors, as a benefit for their home-bound meals program, are presenting a candidate open forum. Director, Lela Randolph says there are long list of candidates that will be participating

“We have confirmation on 29 or 30 candidates at this moment and we still have two or three that we’re waiting on”

There will be an “all you can eat” spaghetti and salad dinner served from 5:30 -6:30 pm for $7.00. Here is an audio sound bite of some of the candidates they will have on hand

      LELA RANDOLPH LISTS SOME OF THE CANDIDATES THAT WILL APPEAR

The forum takes place this Friday, July 23rd at the St. Robert community center in St. Robert.

Update: For those interested here is an example copy of the Camden County Voter’s ballot so you can prepare before you enter the voting booth

AUGUST 3 2010 SAMPLE BALLOT FOR PUBLIC, CLICK TO VIEW

Still searching for a Maries County Woman

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The search for a missing Maries county lady has some new evidence that might lead authorities closer to finding her.

Kinga Gillibrand has been missing since the beginning of June. Maries County Sheriff Chris Hietman received a tip Tuesday evening from a man who said that his dogs found something in his yard. Hietman described these items as “very suspicious” and that they recovered some evidence that led us to believe that the remains of Ms. Gillibrand may be in the general vicinity. They have conducted a search of the surrounding area and thus far have not discovered any more information. Hietman says they’ll continue to search for Gillibrand but asks residents to call the Maries County Sheriff’s office at 573-422-3381, if they find something that may be out of place.

Some Local Fire Districts are approved Grant Money

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Cole, Osage and regional west fire protection districts are recipients of matching grants from the Missouri department of conservation forestry division.

Each district has received three thousand dollars to help with the purchase of equipment to upgrade the emergency radio systems that serve the fire protection districts, along with the county ambulance service and first responders. The grants are a direct result in a new federal requirement forcing emergency service agencies to upgrade their two-way radio transmissions by 2013.

Timothy Colwell Captured

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The hunt for a Brumley man who was wanted in Camden County comes to an end.

21 year old Timothy Charles Colwell was wanted for questioning in the rape and confinement of his wife and the assault of a Linn Creek woman. Colwell was captured by Lamar county police in Lamar County Georgia. According to Camden County Sheriff Dwight Franklin, investigators were contacting family members and other connections in search of Colwell and developed information that Colwell had fled to Georgia. After contacting the Georgia State Police, they began searching for Colwell. Colwell has been taken into custody without incident and is currently being held in the Spalding County jail pending extradition back to Missouri. He’s officially been charged with first degree burglary, domestic assault, stealing and tampering in Camden County.

Eldon May Get A New City Administrator

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The city of Eldon has the green light in their long search for a city administrator.

 Eldon has announced that they have selected Frank D. Schoneboom to be the new city administrator. Frank has served the past 2 years as a consultant for a management firm in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He worked in the area of Governmental Issues such as Financing, Operations, Budgeting and more. In 2004 through mid 2008, he was also the assistant city administrator for the city of Branson. A special meeting to approve his contract and to administer the oath will be held at 5:30pm Tuesday July 27th in the board of chambers at 1000 Highway Y in Eldon.

Lebanon Man Shot

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Lebanon police are still looking for an individual responsible for an early morning shooting.

 At 1am Tuesday morning in the 16th block of Timber Creek, Matthew Boggs was found lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the leg. Police Chief Joe Brauer says that the witnesses heard the gunshot but did not see the shooter.

“The witnesses we interviewed, no one actually saw the incident happen, they heard a popping sound if you will and they looked out and saw an individual laying in the street”

The suspect was last seen speeding away in a white four door Pontiac Bonneville. As for the reason why the shooting occurred, Brauer says they are sure at this time.

“We don’t know why this happened, what we do know is that a young man, white male 23 years of age, was walking on Timber Creek Road, early this morning, close to 1 o’clock. A vehicle approached him, identified as a white Pontiac Bonneville. We’re under the belief from our investigation and witnesses that they’re were 2 people in the vehicle and the passenger was the one who fired one single shoot at the victim and then the vehicle sped away”

Lebanon police are asking for anyone with information to contact the Police Department as soon as possible

“Anyone that has any information regarding the incident is asked to call the Lebanon police department, if you don’t want to give your name that’s fine, if you have information that will lead us in the right direction, that’s what we’re looking for”

You can contact the Lebanon police department by calling 417-532-3131

Missouri State Conservation Department Discovers Illegal Activity

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The Missouri State Conservation Department has had their biggest roundup of illegal hunters in the history of the department.

For the past few years, an investigator for the department has been working with several hunters in some southern Missouri counties. Regional supervisor Gary Cravens explains how they discovered the issue was occurring

“We had several complaints from several citizens in this are complaining about the illegal activity in Shannon and surrounding Missouri counties, so we attacked that by putting a special investigator in to find out what’s going on”

The investigator had quite a discovery about the amount of wildlife illegally brought into the local taxidermist, says Craven

“We were surprised to find out that investigators documented that 62% of the wildlife brought into a local taxidermist shop was taken in some illegal manor”

According to Craven, most of the wildlife brought in was road hunted along with many other illegal procedures

“A lot of road hunting, trespass hunting, wildlife taken out of season…just a whole sort of different illegal methods”

The total amount turned out to be about 425 violations from 68 violators in total

“There was 425 violations, we uncovered about 300 with the special investigator, when we sent more agents out to interview these 68 individuals, we uncovered another 126 so that put us up to 425 total violations involved in this investigation”

Craven says most of these folks turned themselves in by boasting about their catch to the taxidermist that they didn’t know was working for the conservation department. 

The Missouri State Conservation Department has had their biggest roundup of illegal hunters in the history of the department. For the past few years, an investigator for the department has been working with several hunters in some southern Missouri counties. Regional supervisor Gary Cravens explains how they discovered the issue was occurring

 

“We had several complaints from several citizens in this are complaining about the illegal activity in Shannon and surrounding Missouri counties, so we attacked that by putting a special investigator in to find out what’s going on”

 

The investigator had quite a discovery about the amount of wildlife illegally brought into the local taxidermist, says Craven

 

“We were surprised to find out that investigators documented that 62% of the wildlife brought into a local taxidermist shop was taken in some illegal manor”

 

According to Craven, most of the wildlife brought in was road hunted along with many other illegal procedures

 

“A lot of road hunting, trespass hunting, wildlife taken out of season…just a whole sort of different illegal methods”

 

The total amount turned out to be about 425 violations from 68 violators in total

 

“There was 425 violations, we uncovered about 300 with the special investigator, when we sent more agents out to interview these 68 individuals, we uncovered another 126 so that put us up to 425 total violations involved in this investigation”

 

Craven says most of these folks turned themselves in by boasting about their catch to the taxidermist that they didn’t know was working for the conservation department.

Pulaski County New Tax Program

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PULASKI COUNTY HAS APPROVED THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF ST. ROBERT AND THE COUNTY TO COLLECT REAL-ESTATE TAXES. 

 COUNTY COLLECTOR TERRI MITCHELL HAS ALREADY ENTERED INTO AGREEMENTS WITH THE CITIES OF CROCKER AND WAYNESVILLE TO COLLECT THE REAL ESTATE TAXES. THIS AGREEMENT BEGINS SEPTEMBER FIRST 2010 AND WILL LAST UNTIL SEPTEMEBER FIRST 2011. THREE PERECENT OF THE COLLECTED TAXES WOULD BE WITHHELD FOR THE COUNTY AND THE COLLECTOR. LOCAL RESIDENTS CAN PAY THEIR TAXES AT THE COURTHOUSE.  

U.S. Grain Council Elects New Members

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THE UNITED STATES GRAIN COUNCIL ELECTED NEW OFFICALS YESTERDAY AT THE 50TH ANNUAL BOARD OF DELEGATES MEETING.

OF THOSE ELECTED, TERRY VINDUSKA, A CORN FARMER REPRESENTING THE KANSAS CORN COMMISSION, WAS ELECTED CHAIRMAN FOR THE 2010 THROUGH 2011 FISCAL YEAR. VINDUSKA, A GRADUATE WITH HONORS FROM KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1972 HAS HAD A VARIED CAREER IN AGRICULTURE. HE WORKED FOR THE HESSTON CORPORATION AND PRESENTLY SERVES AS A REPRESENATIVE PIONEER HI-BRED INTERENATIONAL AS WELL AS MANAGING HIS OWN FARM IN KANSAS. OTHER NEW BOARD ELECTIONS INCLUDE WENDELL SHAUMAN AS VICE CHAIRMAN, DON FAST AS TREASURER AND JULIUS SCHAAF AS SECRETARY. ALSO ALAN TIEMANN WAS RE-ELECTED TO THE COUNCIL.