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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 12, 2010) — Commissioners did little during a mostly quiet Thursday morning meeting other than hold closed session meetings on undisclosed subjects, but in some of the few public comments of the day, Eastern District Commissioner Bill Farnham said he wants to give a stern warning to people on Texas Road that piles of gravel placed for the road crews are to benefit the public, not private homeowners. “Apparently one of the neighbors saw someone backing their pickup to o...

County Collector Terri Mitchell

March Collector’s Report
The 2009 tax collection season was the smoothest yet w...

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 9, 2010) — Less than a week after a misstep in a training exercise “killed” an entire duty shift of Waynesville firefighters, members of that same shift responded with extra caution Tuesday evening to a report of a 20-pound bag of suspicious powder found by state troopers on Interstate 44. Waynesville Rural Fire Chief Doug Yurecko received a call to respond and immediately called for backup. “My initial thought was whatever this was, the trooper on the scene had been e...

Emergency personnel respond to a wreck on I-44.

Teen driver careens hundred yards into ravine beside Interstate 44 Monday
PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 8, 2010) — A teenage driver m...

Don Mayhew filed Monday for the Republican nomination for Pulaski County Presiding Commissioner.

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Emergency personnel respond to a rollover wreck on I-44.

Two Tuesday morning rollovers...

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March 2010 gas prices - Updated Monday, 3/1
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County Assessor Roger Harrison says he needs assessment forms back today.

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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (Feb. 25, 2010) — For those who don’t like to buckle their seatbelts, today is the wrong day to be driving. Waynesville and St. Robert police both issued nearly identical press releases earlier this month announcing their participation in the quarterly “Click it or Ticket” seat belt enforcement campaign, during which police officers aggressively seek to enforce usage of seat belts in vehicles in Missouri. Pulaski County Sheriff J.B. King will also

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Bridge consultant James Kempker explains options.

Consultant advises count...

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (Feb. 24, 2010) — Most of the county’s complaints from citizens have focused on road conditions in recent weeks, but at Monday’s meeting of the Pulaski County Commission, Presiding Commissioner Don McCulloch told his colleagues that he’s received multiple calls from a local attorney, Wayne Gifford, about the county sidewalks. “Doesn’t he understand that we can’t do anything if we wanted to on the sidewalk because of the weather?” McCulloch asked, noting that a new security li...

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (Feb. 23, 2010) — Two more candidates have filed at the Pulaski County Clerk’s office for local races. According to County Clerk Diana Linnenbringer, Wayne Gifford, D-Laquey, has filed for nomination as prosecuting attorney and Associate Circuit Judge Greg Warren, D-Richland, has filed for re-election to the probate division seat that he currently holds. Neither candidate faces a primary fight so far, and neither do any of the other Democrats who

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Deborah Hooper and Brent Bassett turn in nomination papers.

Aspiring to office...

Presiding Commissioner Don McCulloch plans to be among the first in line today.

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Eric Bushley said both dogs and cars have trouble navigating ruts in his gravel road.

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WAYNESVILLE/SAINT ROBERT, Mo. (Feb. 22, 2010) — When the Joint Recreation Board meets this evening to discuss local recreation for youth, for the first time in many years, its members will be planning a soccer season without the involvement of the Kiwanis Club. They’ll also be discussing the future of the area’s youth recreation program after concerns about the program voiced at Thursday’s meeting of the Waynesville City Council. Councilman Mike France told his fellow council members Thursday th...

Kim Fuhr hopes the county will have an animal shelter.

Newly named Citizen of the ...

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (Feb. 19, 2010) — Approval this week of an enhanced enterprise zone ordinance by the Richland City Council means all county governmental units have given the green light that allows state officials to consider an application for tax credits that could help businesses throughout Pulaski County. The county’s other five cities and the county commission previously approved the requested ordinance. “Since Tuesday, we’ve been packaging the application and this morning I delivered i...