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  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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Missouri River Festival of the Arts a resounding success

The 47th Annual Missouri River Festival of the Arts ended on a high note Saturday, August 27, with multiple standing ovations and thunderous applause as conductor Stephanie Childress led the Missouri River Festival Orchestra performing Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. The Festival featured three nights of world class music and musicians from the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony, recruited by Artistic Director David Halen and organized by Marilyn Humiston, to deliver the finest in live musical performances in Historic Thespian Hall. Halen, who also serves as Concert Master for the St. Louis Symphony, received his own standing ovation earlier that evening after performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto in D.

Belstle pitches 1-hitter, Eads goes 2-for-4 in 9-1 win over Cairo

The New Franklin Lady Bulldogs softball team showed no quit Tuesday night at home against the Cairo Bearcats. Although the Bearcats opened the game with one run in the top half of the first, it was all New Franklin after that with nine unanswered runs over the next six innings for a 9-1 victory.

New Franklin edges Cairo 4-3, improves to 5-0 on the season

The New Franklin Bulldogs baseball team picked up its biggest win of the season Tuesday night at home by beating the Cairo Bearcats 4-3. While improving to 5-0 on the season and 1-0 in the CAC, New Franklin head coach Erich Gerding said for a fall baseball game, there was a lot of emotion in this game.

Joyce Ginter

Florence Today we invite you to a Florence Chesnutt celebration of Joyce Ginter. She was born in of Pleasant Boonville, MO, on June passed 15, 1947, and aptly named at home September Joyce Anne by her parents, Helen and Cecil She Doyle.

Florence “Winky” Chesnutt Friedrichs

Florence “Winky” Chesnutt Friedrichs, 96, of Pleasant Green, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, September 3, 2022. She was born on November 17th, 1925, in El Dorado, Arkansas, daughter of Col. Stanley Andrews of Moniteau County, MO, and Florence Vinita Cox of Pettis