Captain James E. Wilt, the commanding officer of Troop B, Macon, announces the following Troop B transfer. Trooper Keenan J. Cool will transfer from Troop H, Zone 10, Daviess and DeKalb counties, to Troop B, Zone 3, Putnam and Sullivan counties. Cool was appointed to the Patrol on January 2, 2014, and after graduating from […]
Coltrain Mules and Furnish Farms will hold multiple activities at the Newtown Saddle Club Arena this weekend. Saturday’s activities include a 12-mile trail ride at 10 o’clock in the morning, a colt starting seminar with David Stutzman of Rocky from 2 to 3 o’clock in the afternoon, timber horse training and shoeing, arena work up […]
The Medicine Creek Fire Department responded to a house fire in the southeast corner of Newtown Thursday afternoon around 3:30. Spokesman Mike Abernathy reports the house was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived and the fire had jumped the railroad track and caught railroad ties on fire. The railroad was closed for awhile, but they allowed […]
The Medicine Creek sorority holds a deer hunter breakfast and bake sale at Newtown November 12th with proceeds to benefit the Medicine Creek Sorority Scholarship fund and community betterment projects. Biscuits and gravy will be served beginning at 8 o’clock at the community building at the Newtown ballpark. The event is eat and pay what […]
The highway patrol reports two people were taken by ambulance to Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan following an accident three miles south of Newtown. The report noted 48-year-old Pamela Spencer of Newtown was driving northbound when the car went off Highway 139, first to the right, then to the left, where it struck a […]
At a meeting this week of the Newtown-Harris Board of Education, Justin Oaks was appointed to fill the remainder of the school board term held by Julie Veach. Oaks appointment runs until the election next April. Amanda Neff was approved as the new bookkeeper. Patti Stark of Mercer was approved as a special education consultant for […]
The Newtown-Harris Board of Education has approved a budget for next fiscal year in which revenues are anticipated to exceed spending by nearly 22-thousand dollars. Spending is estimated at about $1,535,000.00. Income is anticipated to surpass expenditures for the current fiscal year ending this June 30th by nearly 22 thousand dollars. Newtown-Harris has a reserve […]
FCS Financial is recognizing fifty 4-H clubs and FFA chapters with $500 grants for submitting Shaping Rural Missouri grant applications. Two grants are for groups from this area: Newtown Community 4-H Club (Sullivan County) – Ballpark & Community Center Renovations Carroll County 4-H Club & Carrollton FFA Chapter (Carroll County) – Sun Blocker Flat Top Shade Cloth […]
A Newton resident was hurt when the pickup truck he was driving skidded into the path of another pickup, was hit, and then went off the road, through a ditch, and struck a tree. 17-year-old Damion Goodman of Newton was taken to Wayne County Hospital at Corydon, Iowa with minor injuries. The driver of the […]
