See what’s going on in Polk County! Mark your calendars for these upcoming events. Some events may require registration or admission fees; please contact the organization for more details. more

March 1, here at last — again. more

Blake Goodman, son of Kerri and Daniel Goodman, and Reagan Hunt, daughter of Tiffany and Jeremy Hunt, have been chosen Rotary Students for the month of March. more

Baseball is catching on in the community, as Bolivar resident Joe Arnold makes it his mission to play a game of catch with someone new every day for an entire year. more

DEATHS more

DEATHS more

Dorothy Ann Callaway Isdell more

Girls Basketball more

Liberator Wrestlers competed in the Class 3 MSHSAA Wrestling Championships at Mizzou Arena February 24-25, 2023. The team placed 8 out of 47 and four wrestlers brought home hardware: Cooper Moore, Blake Goodman, Riley Beckman and Trey Brewer. more

At 9:53 a.m. on Sunday, February 19, Chief French with the Fair Play Police Department received a call for service in reference to the unlawful use of a weapon in the 200 block of Elm Street in Fair Play. Officers made contact with the victim and statements were gathered. It was alleged that a suspect, Cassity Bayer, 40, discharged a firearm towards the roadway at a dog and with a juvenile being ten to 20 feet away from the dog for being too close to her property. more

MISSOURI BEEF DAYS 2023 TO BE BIGGER AND BETTER THAN LAST YEAR, more

Friday, Feb. 24, the Bolivar FFA chapter wrapped up their week of special events with Drive Your Tractor to School! Little tractors, big tractors, green, yellow and orange tractors, the event was a fun time for all. more

The March Polk County Community Connections breakfast meeting is at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, March. 2, in the community room at Citizens Memorial Hospital, 1500 N. Oakland, Bolivar. A free breakfast is provided. Bolivar Mayor Chris Warwick and Polk County Clerk Rachel Lightfoot will provide education about Proposition U the sales tax issues on the April 4 ballot. more

Weather report more

How well do you know Polk County? more

The Polk County Clerk’s office will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and open through the lunch hour for absentee voting. more

The Polk County Genealogical Society will meet Thursday, March 2. The program for the evening will be “Who Am I? The Man with Two Lives” presented by PCGS member Leta Gass. This is the story of David Dickson/E.R. Graham that Gass shared during the Living History Tour last October. This is the program originally scheduled for the January meeting but needed to be postponed due to illness. more

CIVIL ACTIONS more

The organization formerly known as Polk County House of Hope will now be called Hope’s Safe Haven, a transition that provides a more encompassing and accurate depiction of the organization’s influence in the local community and beyond. more

A woman from Fair Play faces felony child endangerment and armed criminal action charges after allegedly shooting a gun at a dog that was in close proximity to a juvenile. more

The State Historical Society of Missouri board of trustees has elected recently retired U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Springfield as president of the State Historical Society for a three-year term. The former senior U.S. Senator from Missouri has served as a trustee of the Society since 2005. Blunt’s term as president follows that of Virginia Laas, a professor emerita of history at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin. Laas will continue to serve as a trustee of the Society. more

The OACAC Foster Grandparent Program is looking for seniors who are 55 years old or over and are interested in volunteering at schools, child care centers, daycares and/or youth centers in the community. more

Tuesday, Feb. 21, the Liberator Special Olympics Basketball team gathered to show off their skills and enjoy a fun evening with family and fans. more

Polk County Senior Citizens’ Services Fund Tax Board more

Monday, Feb. 27 — Broccoli soup, ham sandwich, crackers, banana pudding. more