Chavi Lee, Neosho, received a Mother’s Day surprise on Friday after being named this year’s May Day Mom recipient.

Famous TV personalities LaVerne and Edith Tripp will be featured at the Abundant Life Church, 700 Spencer Dr., Neosho, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 21.

An estimated 45 Christian Motorcyclists Association members from the Glory Riders – Joplin Chapter converged on Neosho Powersports Saturday to be involved in a nation- and world-wide event: Run for the Son.

Nine locations have signed on to be map sponsor locations for Missouri's Largest City-Wide Garage Sale in Neosho on Saturday, April 5. Maps will be released at 5 a.m. at these locations: Wise Stop at 11966 E. Highway 86; Kwik-Mart at 738 E. McKinney; Oak Tree Mart, 2211 Oak Ridge; Snak-Atak at 16149 Highway 59 South; Shoney's at 3001 Lusk Drive; Granny Shaffer's at 219 E. Main Street; Hickory Creek Corner, 1549 N. College Street; Gran Villas on Lyon Drive; and Medicalodge on Lyon Drive.

Neosho is gearing up for the 20th annual Missouri’s Largest Garage Sale, to be held from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. next Saturday.

Fifty years ago, LaDean Reed started at Sale Memorial Hospital in Neosho as a transcriptionist. On Friday, she was surprised by her Freeman co-workers and family at a reception in her honor.

The Newtonia Battlefields Protection Association (NBPA) is sponsoring the first of its kind chair-ity auction from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday inside the old McGinty’s building.

If you read this column regularly, you know I’ve been on a simplification kick this past year.  We’ve even narrowed down the areas which we support financially. 

Virginia Hall never considered herself an activist.  After working for several years at a manufacturing plant, a bank and as a substitute teacher, Hall decided to retire from the working world. She wanted to spend more time at her home near Powell in eastern McDonald County.

Funnel cakes help defray youth's medical expenses.

Abbi Dunn loves her job as social services director at Medicalodge of Neosho.

Two local charitable groups are banding together for a fund-raiser.

Freeman Neosho Hospital made the largest donation to the Neosho Area United Community Fund in its history. Hospital employees raised more than $11,000 for the organization, which benefits a number of charities serving Newton and McDonald counties.

Maxine Austin, a 90-year-old former Realtor, pauses to discuss her life as she celebrates her birthday.

The newest member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jasper and Newton Counties, Jessica Schermacher, Amachi specialist, has always wanted to volunteer for an organization that works with children.

So after hearing about the Amachi program through Kathy Guebara with the Missouri Reentry Program, she began.