The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO

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  • SBA presents Phoenix Awards today at chamber event

    Representatives with the U.S. Small Business Administration recognized Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce President Rob O’Brian and Amplify Gymnastics owners Paul Comstedt, Derek Hammeke and Kip Johnson this morning with the SBA’s Phoenix Award.

    June 13, 2013

  • 061313 PSU beds.jpg Agencies respond to PSU’s offer for free beds for kids

    School-based social worker Peyton Westmoreland, of Miami, Okla., couldn’t believe her luck when she received word that Pittsburg State University’s Housing Office had 170 student beds to give away.

    June 13, 2013 1 Photo

  • Fundraiser in wings at Joplin airport

    The Freedom of Flight Museum will put on its inaugural fundraising event at 7 p.m. Friday at the Joplin Regional Airport.

    June 12, 2013

  • Downtown Joplin group puts CID proposal on hold

    An effort to establish a community improvement district as a way to promote Joplin’s downtown has been put on hold. Trisha Patton, executive director of the Downtown Joplin Alliance, said the alliance board voted Tuesday to table the effort based on the views of downtown property and business owners.

    June 12, 2013

  • 061213 b-17_3_72.jpg VIDEO: Veteran, with help of son, checks out B-17 at Joplin airport

    Boone Neal Ruff gently passed his 96-year-old fingers over the skin of Sentimental Journey, a B-17 Flying Fortress. Riveted aluminum was something he had touched a long time ago when the world was at war.

    June 12, 2013 3 Photos

  • Neosho officials question revenues from 2006 CID

    Neosho city officials for the past year or so have been occupied with the Neosho Transportation Development District, or TDD. They recently have turned their attention to another entity with an acronym, the Big Spring Plaza Community Improvement District, or CID.

    June 12, 2013

  • Ceremony to mark opening of new Joplin intercharge

    The new Zora and Main streets interchange will open on Thursday.

    June 12, 2013

  • Freedom of Flight Museum to hold first fundraising event Friday

    Sentimental Journey, a Boeing B-17 bomber from World War II, roared into Joplin today to kick off the inaugural fundraising event for the Freedom of Flight Museum on Friday.

    June 12, 2013

  • Park Board endorses design for mural park in Joplin

    A design for a plaza where a Route 66 tile mural is to be installed downtown is proposed at $160,000. The Joplin Park Board agreed at a meeting Tuesday to recommend that the City Council approve the proposed design. The design is to be presented to the council at its regular meeting Monday.

    June 11, 2013

  • Author: Joplin, Galena starting to mine Route 66

    While people may look at Route 66 as a nostalgic bygone, it’s actually a 2,500-mile-long economic corridor to the future. Cities like Joplin and Galena, Kan., are learning to mine the historic route for attractions that result in development, much as they did lead and zinc before the highway arrived here.

    June 11, 2013

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