SPS held its sixth annual Food Fight to benefit pantries in Greene County and pantries at Central and Kickapoo high schools. Students and 13 business partners collected 19,273 pounds of food and $2,315 – enough for more than 28,000 meals this holiday season. Above, Kickapoo representatives receive the traveling trophy in the high school category.

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Drury University played host Dec. 5 to the Musgrave Foundation’s fall grant awards totaling $418,000. Over 50 organizations and programs received grants. Above, Drury’s Dan Prater and grant recipient and Women in Need of the Ozarks organizer Elise Crain applaud the work.

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Drury University played host Dec. 5 to the Musgrave Foundation’s fall grant awards totaling $418,000. Over 50 organizations and programs received grants, including the $20,000 to Railroad Historical Museum Inc., above.

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Community members gather Dec. 9 in the Greene County Historic Courthouse to honor retiring county commissioner Roseann Bentley, standing. The longtime public servant was the state’s first female senator from southwest Missouri, a Springfield Public Schools board president, the first president of the Junior League of Springfield and a founding member of Ozarks Public Television. She was elected to the commission in 2004.

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