Karen Craigo

1 week ago | sbj.net | Karen Craigo

Attorney Joseph D. “Chip” Sheppard III counts it as a point of pride to have contributed to two key changes to the Missouri Constitution. Sheppard, who is vice president, shareholder and chair of the Cannabis Law Group for Carnahan Evans PC, led a successful campaign to adopt the Missouri Court Plan in Greene County in 2008. The effort halted what Sheppard called irrelevant and expensive campaigns by judges who are ethnically prohibited from making campaign promises.

1 week ago | sbj.net | Karen Craigo

Editors' Pick Open for Business: Motto Mortgage Community Partners Brothers Alex and Nick Paulson collaborated to launch a Springfield office for Motto Mortgage; Lawrence County Health Department moved to its newly constructed facility; and Ozarks Capital LLC opened for business.

2 weeks ago | sbj.net | Geoff Pickle |Karen Craigo

Voters yesterday approved the candidacies of two new members of Springfield City Council, with three others retaining their seats on the municipal governing board. The new council members, with an effective start date of April 21, are Mayor Jeff Schrag and Bruce Adib-Yazdi, who is taking on the Zone 4 seat. Incumbents Heather Hardinger, Monica Horton and Craig Hosmer kept their seats.

2 weeks ago | sbj.net | Geoff Pickle |Karen Craigo

Two new members are set to join the Springfield Public Schools Board of Education following the April 8 election. At the polls, the winning candidates for three-year terms were Sarah Hough and Gail Smart, according to the unofficial election results from Greene County Clerk Shane Schoeller's office. Voters, who were asked to select two of four candidates on the ballot, put 29.3% of the tally toward Hough and 27.9% for Smart. The winning candidates collected 11,407 and 10,848 votes, respectively.

2 weeks ago | sbj.net | Karen Craigo

Three finalists – two of them local to the metro area – have been named for the city manager position in the city of Springfield. David Cameron, city administrator of Republic, and Brian Weiler, the city’s director of aviation, are in the running for the position, along with outside candidate Bob Cowell, who most recently served as the city manager of Roanoke, Virginia, according to a news release.