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2 months ago | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
GALENA, Kan. — One of the Four States is celebrating a birthday today. All of us have heard the song, but you may not know that “Home on the Range” is, in fact, the official song of the Sunflower State. To celebrate, third-grade students at Liberty Elementary have chosen a famous Kansan, one that was born in the state or lived there for a period of time.
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2 months ago | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
JOPLIN, Mo. — Tax season is upon us — and a group of volunteers wants to help. Inside this room there are literally hundreds of years of tax return experience and all of these people are donating their time so others community don’t have to do their own taxes or won’t have to pay someone to do them. What is VITA?
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Stuart Price
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2 months ago | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
KSNF/KODE — Nationwide, agents with immigration and naturalization, or ICE, arrested over 900 people on Sunday alone. What should you do if they come to your school, home, or business? “If they’re here legally, they need to have some kind of documentation with them at all times, if they’re here on a green card, they need to have their green card, be able to get to it and have it on them at all times, probably means stick it in your pajamas if you’re sleeping,” said Bill Fleischaker, attorney.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
JOPLIN, Mo. — A group of people are traveling in pairs throughout Joplin to get an idea of how many people are homeless in the city. Once each year at this time Casey Vanstory, and other employees of Economic Security, go out in teams of two for the purpose of finding and counting the number of unhoused people living in Joplin. Most of them live in wooded areas that may just be a few yards off some of the busiest streets in Joplin. It didn’t take her very long to find someone.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
JOPLIN, Mo. — A monthly storytime event for kids at the Joplin Public Library is drawing in a new audience. The event has become popular with kids of all ages lately. The third Tuesday of each month beginning at 10 a.m. inside the Joplin Public Library you can find youth services librarian Christina Matekel-Gibsontelling tales to kids as part of the Story Corner. Kids and their parents have always been the primary audience for Story Corner.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
DIAMOND, Mo. — Decades before it was Dr. King’s dream, a Four State native preached a message of love and understanding between people of different races. The George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond was the first national park facility named after an African American. While Carver was born in Diamond, he would reach the pinnacle of his notoriety while living and teaching in Alabama.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
JOPLIN, Mo. — When they take office, new leaders often vow to make certain changes in their first 100 days. Even though she’s not a politician or has ever run for office, an area woman is vowing to make a change in her community over that time frame. It’s hard to miss this larger-than-life “peace” sign when you walk into Joplin Avenue Coffee Company. What better setting for Ann Leach to use as the backdrop for the first of her “Hundred Days of Peace” campaign.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
JOPLIN, Mo. — Insurance rates for homes, vehicles, and businesses are at an all-time high with many insurance providers in the Four States, but they could get a lot higher in the future. Even though they’re burning hundreds of miles away from the Four States, Don Gould with the Don Gould Agency, Inc. says to expect higher insurance rates here in the future because of the California wildfires.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
fourstateshomepage.com | Stuart Price
NEVADA, Mo. — An area organization says “thank you” for helping them help people in need. The single largest fundraiser for the Vernon County United Way over the last 40 years has been an annual event held in the fall. This year’s version raised nearly $9,000. And Shelby Lightwine with the Vernon County United Way says the need for funds this year has never been greater.
