A Nixa motorcyclist was killed in a two-vehicle accident 7:11 p.m. Tuesday on AB Highway in Willard.
According to the Highway Patrol report, a 2008 Yamaha YZFR600 motorcycle driven by Kurtis L. Casteel, 25, Nixa, was traveling at an excessive rate of speed. A 2014 Ford Explorer driven by Bobby E. Stroup, 46, Willard, attempted a left turn and the Casteel motorcycle skidded into the northbound lane, striking the Stroup vehicle.
Casteel was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital, Springfield, at 7:49 pm. by Dr. Kenneth Larson.
The fatality was the 96th this year for Highway Patrol Troop D.
KY3 reports Casteel was driving a stolen motorcycle.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Ted Cruz, Blunt, Greitens to be in Springfield today
Tomorrow, Eric Greitens will hold Town Hall events in Houston and Salem Missouri. He will take questions from voters and discuss his opposition to Chris Koster's Clinton-style corruption and Obamacare expansion scheme. Later, he will attend rallies with Senator Roy Blunt and Senator Ted Cruz along with the GOP slate. Eric's full schedule is below.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND
HOUSTON TOWN HALL
Time: 9:00 AM
Houston Rural Fire Station
115 West Walnut Street
Houston, Missouri 65483
Time: 9:00 AM
Houston Rural Fire Station
115 West Walnut Street
Houston, Missouri 65483
SALEM TOWN HALL
Time: 11:00 AM
Salem Community Center at the Armory
1200 West Rolla Street
Salem, Missouri 65560
Time: 11:00 AM
Salem Community Center at the Armory
1200 West Rolla Street
Salem, Missouri 65560
SPRINGFIELD RALLY WITH SEN. ROY BLUNT AND SEN. TED CRUZ
Time: 5:00 PM
National Safety Compliance Inc.
424 N Cedarbrook Avenue
Springfield, MO 65802
Time: 5:00 PM
National Safety Compliance Inc.
424 N Cedarbrook Avenue
Springfield, MO 65802
JOPLIN RALLY WITH SEN. ROY BLUNT AND SEN. TED CRUZ
Time: 7:30 PM
Missouri Southern State University
Connor Ball Room
3950 Newman Road
Joplin, MO 64801
Time: 7:30 PM
Missouri Southern State University
Connor Ball Room
3950 Newman Road
Joplin, MO 64801
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD
HARRISONVILLE TOWN HALL
Time: 10:00 AM
Harrisonville Community Center
2400 South Jefferson Parkway
Time: 10:00 AM
Harrisonville Community Center
2400 South Jefferson Parkway
LEE’S SUMMIT TOWN HALL
Time: 12:00 PM
Stonehaus Farms Winery
24607 Northeast Colbern Road
Lee’s Summit, MO 64086
Time: 12:00 PM
Stonehaus Farms Winery
24607 Northeast Colbern Road
Lee’s Summit, MO 64086
KANSAS CITY TOWN HALL
Time: 2:00 PM
Clay County GOP Headquarters
8002 North Oak Trafficway Suite 107
Kansas City, MO 64118
Time: 2:00 PM
Clay County GOP Headquarters
8002 North Oak Trafficway Suite 107
Kansas City, MO 64118
COLUMBIA RALLY
Time: 5:30 PM
American Legion
3669 Legion Lane
Columbia, MO 65201
Time: 5:30 PM
American Legion
3669 Legion Lane
Columbia, MO 65201
Highway Patrol DWI Arrests October 31-November 2
The Missouri Highway Patrol arrested the following people for driving while intoxicated:
Frank M. Ricketts, 26, Springfield
Matthew J. Davis, 20, Marionville
Bart C. Milton, 54, Bolivar
Frank M. Ricketts, 26, Springfield
Matthew J. Davis, 20, Marionville
Bart C. Milton, 54, Bolivar
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Springfield Early Childhood Education Program receives honor
Springfield Public Schools' Early Childhood Education Program, created to ensure children are afforded a first class pre-kindergarten experience, was named MSBA FutureBuilders' Education Foundation Early Childhood Education Program of the Year.
MSBA FutureBuilders created the Early Childhood Program of the Year Award to recognize public school districts that demonstrate a commitment to superior learning opportunities for these early learners.
MSBA FutureBuilders created the Early Childhood Program of the Year Award to recognize public school districts that demonstrate a commitment to superior learning opportunities for these early learners.
Springfield Crimestoppers providing new way to share information
(From Springfield Crimestoppers)
Greater Springfield Area Crime Stoppers is proud to announce that they have recently partnered with Anderson Software to provide a more seamless and efficient way for students and community members to offer information to help solve and prevent crimes or other serious or life threatening matters. Anderson Software leads the industry with its latest secure and anonymous tip acquisition and management solution, called P3 Intel. This partnership allows Springfield and Greene County to foster a relationship between law enforcement and the public to proactively create a safer community.
Tips were previously accepted as SMS text messages using a short code and dedicated keyword. Crime Stoppers will now be accepting tips by phone, the web and by way of the new free P3 Tips mobile app available on the iOS and Android platforms, greatly enhancing the mobile tip submission process. Still completely anonymous, tips submitted through the P3 mobile app, unlike SMS text tips, have no length limitations and allow images, video and documents to be uploaded with the tip. Anderson Software’s sophistication encryption processes obscure any and all identifying information and provides assured anonymity for tipsters.
Even without the app, there is still an easy and secure option for submitting tips from any PC or mobile browser by going to p3tips.com. Of course, tips are still welcomed through calling our hotline (417-869-TIPS). Using whichever method, once a person submits a tip, they will be given a TIP ID and password. With this information they can login at p3tips.com and submit follow-up information, engage in real-time chat/two-way dialogue, be informed of the outcome of the tip, and access any pertinent reward information.
Crime Stoppers feels that utilizing Anderson Software’s P3 Tips program will enhance communications with the public, thereby building a safer and more trusting community in which everyone prospers. To further show our value of tipsters’ contribution to the community, tips leading to an arrest will result in a cash reward up to $1,000.00.
Tips were previously accepted as SMS text messages using a short code and dedicated keyword. Crime Stoppers will now be accepting tips by phone, the web and by way of the new free P3 Tips mobile app available on the iOS and Android platforms, greatly enhancing the mobile tip submission process. Still completely anonymous, tips submitted through the P3 mobile app, unlike SMS text tips, have no length limitations and allow images, video and documents to be uploaded with the tip. Anderson Software’s sophistication encryption processes obscure any and all identifying information and provides assured anonymity for tipsters.
Even without the app, there is still an easy and secure option for submitting tips from any PC or mobile browser by going to p3tips.com. Of course, tips are still welcomed through calling our hotline (417-869-TIPS). Using whichever method, once a person submits a tip, they will be given a TIP ID and password. With this information they can login at p3tips.com and submit follow-up information, engage in real-time chat/two-way dialogue, be informed of the outcome of the tip, and access any pertinent reward information.
Crime Stoppers feels that utilizing Anderson Software’s P3 Tips program will enhance communications with the public, thereby building a safer and more trusting community in which everyone prospers. To further show our value of tipsters’ contribution to the community, tips leading to an arrest will result in a cash reward up to $1,000.00.
Springfield City Council approves study of nuisance properties problem
(From City of Springfield)
Springfield City Council approved a resolution Monday for a 90-day pilot project studying potential action for addressing the City’s chronic nuisance properties.
“The volume of service requests for dangerous and nuisance properties and the severity of the cases reported, have increased,” Straw explained. Increased awareness about the issue, following a nine-neighborhood Community Listen tour in Springfield’s Zone 1 neighborhoods in 2015, is one of the reasons Straw cited for the increase in reporting.
Chronic nuisance properties are defined as those properties in which repeated complaint calls are received and responded to, including from the City’s Building Development Services, Police and Fire Departments, as well as other calls for service. Certain properties in Springfield have had upwards of 70 complaint calls in a single year.
The issue is such that “chronic nuisance properties” rose to the top of the list of concerns in seven of the nine listening sessions and remained a clear “number one” priority throughout a follow-up process with residents participating in Zone Blitz brainstorming sessions.
The “Safe Housing Inspection Pilot Program” will launch in November in the West Central neighborhood. West Central neighborhood leaders vied for the opportunity to participate in the voluntary pilot program.
The West Central neighborhood is generally located between the boundaries of Chestnut Expressway to the north and Grand to the south; South Avenue / Boonville to the east and Kansas Expressway to the west.
The pilot project will consist of a 3-month initiative to study and find better ways to ensure public safety against life-safety-housing issues. The project will consist of visits to homes that will focus on life-safety issues (mostly within the interior living space, but including some exterior life-safety issues). Life-safety complaints can be made on rentals or owner-occupied dwellings, but the complainant must have first-hand knowledge of the life-safety issues. Allowing entry to the home will be voluntary.
“This is a research project that could lead to specific program and enforcement changes being proposed that City Council could consider,” Straw explained. He stressed that any potential solution must be well thought out and balanced with a variety of interests.
Straw is most excited about the opportunity this study provides in bringing multiple organizations together to look at creative ways to address this community challenge. He is hopeful this could lead to proposed enforcement changes down the road.
“The City brought multiple stakeholders to the table,” explained City Manager Greg Burris. “We met with neighborhood leaders and property owner groups such as Greater Springfield Apartment and Housing Association and individuals who own multiple rental homes, as well as residents throughout the city. There are a lot of interests to balance, but I am optimistic that we can work together to find some common ground. The safety of our residents and health of our neighborhoods is a top concern.”
City officials also met with first responders and other organizations providing home-based services, such as City Utilities technicians, home healthcare workers, Parents as Teachers and others, about life safety concerns they are seeing in Springfield homes. They expressed an interest in helping and some considered this a positive alternative for possibly addressing the concerns they say they see on a regular basis.
Those groups will have the ability to report life safety concerns to the City’s Citizen Resource Center.
“These individuals will not search or inspect houses seeking life safety issues; they will only be requested to report life-safety concerns witnessed within the scope of their duties,” Straw explains. BDS staff will follow up on the reported concerns that exhibit life safety issues that place occupants at risk.
Three tiers of life safety violations have been developed.
An additional dimension to this pilot project is an expanded partnership with social service providers and the faith community to develop a protocol for accommodating occupants (renters or owners) who may need to be temporarily relocated due to the most egregious life-safety concerns during the remediation process, but cannot afford alternate accommodations during the remediation time. The City will look to its partner, One Door, to assist with coordination of this work.
Springfield City Council approved a resolution Monday for a 90-day pilot project studying potential action for addressing the City’s chronic nuisance properties.
“The volume of service requests for dangerous and nuisance properties and the severity of the cases reported, have increased,” Straw explained. Increased awareness about the issue, following a nine-neighborhood Community Listen tour in Springfield’s Zone 1 neighborhoods in 2015, is one of the reasons Straw cited for the increase in reporting.
Chronic nuisance properties are defined as those properties in which repeated complaint calls are received and responded to, including from the City’s Building Development Services, Police and Fire Departments, as well as other calls for service. Certain properties in Springfield have had upwards of 70 complaint calls in a single year.
The issue is such that “chronic nuisance properties” rose to the top of the list of concerns in seven of the nine listening sessions and remained a clear “number one” priority throughout a follow-up process with residents participating in Zone Blitz brainstorming sessions.
The “Safe Housing Inspection Pilot Program” will launch in November in the West Central neighborhood. West Central neighborhood leaders vied for the opportunity to participate in the voluntary pilot program.
The West Central neighborhood is generally located between the boundaries of Chestnut Expressway to the north and Grand to the south; South Avenue / Boonville to the east and Kansas Expressway to the west.
The pilot project will consist of a 3-month initiative to study and find better ways to ensure public safety against life-safety-housing issues. The project will consist of visits to homes that will focus on life-safety issues (mostly within the interior living space, but including some exterior life-safety issues). Life-safety complaints can be made on rentals or owner-occupied dwellings, but the complainant must have first-hand knowledge of the life-safety issues. Allowing entry to the home will be voluntary.
“This is a research project that could lead to specific program and enforcement changes being proposed that City Council could consider,” Straw explained. He stressed that any potential solution must be well thought out and balanced with a variety of interests.
Straw is most excited about the opportunity this study provides in bringing multiple organizations together to look at creative ways to address this community challenge. He is hopeful this could lead to proposed enforcement changes down the road.
“The City brought multiple stakeholders to the table,” explained City Manager Greg Burris. “We met with neighborhood leaders and property owner groups such as Greater Springfield Apartment and Housing Association and individuals who own multiple rental homes, as well as residents throughout the city. There are a lot of interests to balance, but I am optimistic that we can work together to find some common ground. The safety of our residents and health of our neighborhoods is a top concern.”
City officials also met with first responders and other organizations providing home-based services, such as City Utilities technicians, home healthcare workers, Parents as Teachers and others, about life safety concerns they are seeing in Springfield homes. They expressed an interest in helping and some considered this a positive alternative for possibly addressing the concerns they say they see on a regular basis.
Those groups will have the ability to report life safety concerns to the City’s Citizen Resource Center.
“These individuals will not search or inspect houses seeking life safety issues; they will only be requested to report life-safety concerns witnessed within the scope of their duties,” Straw explains. BDS staff will follow up on the reported concerns that exhibit life safety issues that place occupants at risk.
Three tiers of life safety violations have been developed.
An additional dimension to this pilot project is an expanded partnership with social service providers and the faith community to develop a protocol for accommodating occupants (renters or owners) who may need to be temporarily relocated due to the most egregious life-safety concerns during the remediation process, but cannot afford alternate accommodations during the remediation time. The City will look to its partner, One Door, to assist with coordination of this work.
Glendale High School students finalists at New York Film Festival
Glendale High School students Brett Baxley, Eleyah Slavens, Kaitlyn West and Julia Weber were named Best Screenplay Award finalists at the All American High School Film Festival in New York City Oct. 7-10 for their film, "The Fourth."
In addition, they were selected as one of the top three groups out of 100 for the Black Magic Design Film Pitch competition. Learn more.
Springfield Art Museum to present Wood-Fired ceramics exhibit
(From the Springfield Art Museum)
The Springfield Art Museum is pleased to present its final special exhibition of 2016, "The Wood-Fired Kiln: A Catalyst for Collaboration" on Friday, November 4th with a reception at 5:30 PM. Wood-Fired Kiln features the work of seven well known local, regional, national and international ceramicists whose work incorporates, to varying degrees, wood-firing techniques and aesthetics: Kenneth Baskin, Keith Ekstam, Rick Hirsch, Nina Hole, Jeff Johnston, Scott Meyer, and Priscilla Mouritzen. This exhibit focuses specifically on work that has been created using a wood-fire kiln and will investigate the character and dynamic of the collaborations that have resulted from this very communal and social process.
Wood firing, by its very nature engenders a sense of community and has re-emerged as a pedagogy of tremendous importance in ceramics, its influence widening well past the immediate sphere of the skilled artists for whom it is central. The discipline now holds extended influence over a wide variety of artists who occasionally approach the discipline to fulfill their disparate creative aims. While filling the kiln, stoking the fire, and monitoring the flames over the course of many days, participating artists talk about their work, share ideas, and discuss opportunities. The collaborative nature of the firing process often serves as a catalyst for future artistic endeavors. The majority of the artists represented here have fired together, published together, exhibited together, held panel discussions, seminars, workshops, and residencies together.
Museum Director Nick Nelson notes, “The artists represented in this exhibition span the globe, from right here in southwest Missouri, to as far away as Denmark. Individually, they are incorporating disparate materials. The objects run the gamut from functional to sculptural. On the surface, these artists and objects may not seem like they belong together, but they’ve all been subjected to this crucible-like experience. What emerges from the kiln is unified by the process; there is a sense of warmth and community in what has been created. I cannot think of a better message to impart during this particularly divisive time in our history.” This exhibit includes a free gallery guide, multimedia of a wood-firing in process, and free public programs including a themed Family Day and an artist panel.
The Springfield Art Museum is pleased to present its final special exhibition of 2016, "The Wood-Fired Kiln: A Catalyst for Collaboration" on Friday, November 4th with a reception at 5:30 PM. Wood-Fired Kiln features the work of seven well known local, regional, national and international ceramicists whose work incorporates, to varying degrees, wood-firing techniques and aesthetics: Kenneth Baskin, Keith Ekstam, Rick Hirsch, Nina Hole, Jeff Johnston, Scott Meyer, and Priscilla Mouritzen. This exhibit focuses specifically on work that has been created using a wood-fire kiln and will investigate the character and dynamic of the collaborations that have resulted from this very communal and social process.
Wood firing, by its very nature engenders a sense of community and has re-emerged as a pedagogy of tremendous importance in ceramics, its influence widening well past the immediate sphere of the skilled artists for whom it is central. The discipline now holds extended influence over a wide variety of artists who occasionally approach the discipline to fulfill their disparate creative aims. While filling the kiln, stoking the fire, and monitoring the flames over the course of many days, participating artists talk about their work, share ideas, and discuss opportunities. The collaborative nature of the firing process often serves as a catalyst for future artistic endeavors. The majority of the artists represented here have fired together, published together, exhibited together, held panel discussions, seminars, workshops, and residencies together.
Museum Director Nick Nelson notes, “The artists represented in this exhibition span the globe, from right here in southwest Missouri, to as far away as Denmark. Individually, they are incorporating disparate materials. The objects run the gamut from functional to sculptural. On the surface, these artists and objects may not seem like they belong together, but they’ve all been subjected to this crucible-like experience. What emerges from the kiln is unified by the process; there is a sense of warmth and community in what has been created. I cannot think of a better message to impart during this particularly divisive time in our history.” This exhibit includes a free gallery guide, multimedia of a wood-firing in process, and free public programs including a themed Family Day and an artist panel.
Hillcrest High School journalists finalists in national contest
Hillcrest High School broadcast journalism students were named finalists in the "Newscast" category in a national contest by the National Television Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The newscast entry also received a regional NATAS award Oct. 1 at the Emmy Gala.
Sequiota Elementary principal to be honored at state conference
Sequiota Elementary School principal Crystal Magers was named Counselor Advocate of the Year by Southwest Missouri School Counselor's Association.
She will be recognized as the statewide Missouri Counselor Advocate of the Year at the Missouri School Counselors Association conference at Tan-Tar-A on Nov. 6.
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