After decades serving Boonville, the Concerned Citizens for a Better Community is shutting down after its building was damaged by winter storms. The group hopes to find someone to take over the building who will appreciate the its historic importance as Boonville's last school for black students before desegregation. The organization started in 1980 as a grassroots effort to protect the only African American teacher in Boonville schools from being fired, President Tawny Brown said. A few years later, the organization bought the Sumner School on Rural Street, Boonville's school for black residents until the district desegregated in 1956...
