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1 week ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
Posted Thursday afternoon on the city’s website, the agenda for Monday night’s Rolla City Council meeting appears to be non-controversial with most of the business being approval of expenditures for repairs of tornado damage and for street paving and lighting.
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1 week ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
NEWBURG - Local residents, both current and former, filled the town Saturday with food, fun, an attitude of appreciation for the town’s history and a sense of hope for its future. The celebration of Newburg Railroad Days began Friday night with a fish fry, followed on Saturday with music, children’s activities, dancing and more food. Throughout the day, too, the central park in downtown Newburg was filled with vendors.
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1 month ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
Phelps Health celebrated the opening last week of its new state-of-the-art Emergency Medical Services base, and it was a joyous occasion. “It’s an exciting day for tours and to see the space come alive,” said Jason Shenefield, chief executive officer, in his welcoming remarks in conjunction with the cutting of a ribbon to mark the occasion Wednesday afternoon, May 21.
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1 month ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
Helping the poor and elderly is not an inexpensive endeavor, and that becomes crystal clear when sources of funding and support dry up, cut back or disappear. Such is happening for the St. James Caring Center, reports Nancy Montgomery, its executive director. “Recently, the Food Bank of Central Missouri that supplies food for Commodity Day and our emergency food pantry reduced our allocation by 40%,” Montgomery told Phelps County Focus.
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1 month ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
By today, we mean Thursday, May 29, which is the publication date of this newspaper. Now, if you bought an early release of Phelps County Focus, available on newsstands Wednesday evening, the word “today” in the first paragraph is also a fitting meaning, at least unofficially. The fairgrounds were scheduled to be open Wednesday evening for a free night of gospel music and fellowship at The Grove Stage. The music starts at 6 p.m. This is not an official opening of the fair, though.
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1 month ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
The people who needed most to hear about Memorial Day were out playing, not listening to Col. Mark E. Glaspell, commander of the 1st Engineer Brigade at Fort Leonard Wood, guest speaker at this year’s Memorial Day service at Veterans Memorial Park. “Memorial Day weekend unofficially marks the beginning of summer. It has become a happy break to spend time with family and enjoy the freedoms that we all love,” Glaspell said.
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1 month ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
If you are a senior citizen wanting to have your county property tax “frozen” this year, you have until the end of this month to do so. “We’ve had 1,000 applications,” Phelps County Collector Faith Barnes told Phelps County Focus late last week, so the number might be a little higher now. “I was expecting about 1,500.”Barnes said she used Census data to determine an approximation of the number of property owners 60 and older who would qualify.
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1 month ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
In a little over six minutes, Rolla City Council killed a move to remove fluoride from the city’s water supply. “I move to postpone indefinitely,” Ward 5 Councilman William Hahn said after City Administrator John Butz briefly presented the history of the previous council’s proposal to cease the practice that dentists say prevents dental caries in children and is especially helpful to families of limited means, unable to afford regular dental visits.
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1 month ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
For approximately 330 people in the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building Sunday afternoon, Rolla High School graduation may have been primarily a celebration of completion of a long phase of life. For the rest, it was that, plus a celebration of family, kinship, community and character. Yes, character. Graduation 2025 occurred just a few weeks after an unforgettable major upheaval that remains in the thoughts of most residents.
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1 month ago | 
phelpscountyfocus.com | R.D. Hohenfeldt
Veterans who died in combat or later of wounds received in combat will be remembered in a 10 a.m. Monday, May 26, service at Veterans Memorial Park, 575 Southview Drive. Organized by the Rolla Chamber Foundation and Phelps for the Fort, the Memorial Day service will be held at the site of the former pavilion that was destroyed by the March tornado.
