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Monday night’s sky offers fascinating views of our solar system to those who know where to look.
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Joplin History
As Joplin celebrates its 150th anniversary, look back on some key moments in its history.
Missouri’s acclaimed 20th-century painter Thomas Hart Benton began his career as a professional artist in early day Joplin in what he would later describe as a “quirk of fate.”
Percy Wenrich, one of Joplin’s native sons, is today perhaps best known locally as being the guy that gave Dover Hill its name.
A unique race featuring classic and vintage cars will return to Joplin in June and will help mark the city’s transportation heritage event during its 150th birthday celebration.
The five lawmen approaching the modest Carthage stone house in the old Freeman Grove neighborhood on Joplin’s south side 90 years ago thought they might be dealing with bootleggers.
Dennis Weaver: Known for his roles as Chester Goode/Proudfoot on “Gunsmoke” and Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on “McCloud,” Weaver had a prolific career in movies and TV, including starring in “Duel,” a TV film that was director Steven Spielberg’s first work.
Joplin’s earliest newspaper started one year before the city was designated.
Start Downtown: Much of Joplin’s history is in, and around, the city blocks from First to 10th streets along Main Street. From the Newman Building (now serving as Joplin City Hall and home of the Thomas Hart Benton mural) to the Fox Theatre (now housing Central Christian Center). Many histor…
Films featuring local talent or events — from the 1920s silent film “Captain Salvation” and Alfred Hitchcock’s spy thriller “Saboteur,” starring, respectively, Joplin natives Pauline Starke and Robert Cummings, to the 1967 neo-noir crime drama “Bonnie and Clyde” — will be showcased at variou…
Not only were Murphysburg and East Joplin rivals in the late 1870s, but so were the types of ores being pulled from the ground around the quickly growing mining towns.
From the earliest days of Joplin, Black residents have played an important role in the city’s history.
Bonnie and Clyde’s hideout, Grand Falls, Union Depot and Crystal Cave are a few Joplin landmarks being constructed out of Lego bricks by area youth who are competing in a program to celebrate Joplin’s 150th birthday.
Within a dozen years in the late 1800s, what would soon become the city of Joplin jolted a quiet pioneer wilderness into a boisterous location for commerce.
As part of Joplin’s sesquicentennial celebrations, two days’ worth of ragtime and barbershop music will be performed in tribute to Joplin-born Percy Wenrich and other Missouri composers on April 14-15.
From Joplin’s earliest days, before radio or television or even moving pictures, people looked for ways to entertain themselves, and one of the most popular was to take in a game of “base ball.”
History is a tough pill to swallow. Today the majority of students find history books to be “heavy” subjects, especially when they lug them to class.
For the past 110 years, people in Joplin have had a chance to see the future of Major League Baseball play ball at the little ballpark between Third and Fourth streets on High Avenue.
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Community scenes
See pictures of people at work and at play across the Four-States Area.
A March 4 bake sale by the Joplin Interfaith Coalition netted over $10,000 to help RAISE, which stands for Refugee And Immigrant Services & Education, purchase a driving simulator for refugees needing to learn this important skill. Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Baha’i leaders of the coal…
Joplin Neighborhood Adult Literacy Action on March 6 received a donation of office furniture, electronics and curriculum for its students from Amazon. Present at the donation were (from left) Amy Kauffman, Katherine Mays, Jessica Pommert, Amy Stahl (Amazon WM01 community champion), Camara Ku…
A section of the Wildcat Glades Trail near a parking area remained closed Thursday after a large sycamore tree fell. The tree no doubt provided shade to many in Wildcat Park over the years. GLOBE | ROGER NOMER
Jonathan Case, student employment coordinator at Missouri Southern State University, checks the fit of a jacket on Matthew McCaulley on Monday at Dress to Impress at MSSU. The program accepts donations of gently used business attire from the public and then makes that clothing available to s…
A Joplin crew works on a sinkhole that opened up Monday at the intersection of 34th Place and McConnell Avenue. The street remained open to traffic during the work.
On Thursday morning, Paula Baker, Freeman president and CEO, reads a favorite Dr. Seuss book to a group of 30 preschool children at the Freeman Learning Center in Joplin. She was joined by others with Freeman and the Cat in the Hat, a popular Dr. Seuss character who appears regularly in prog…
Nathan Eddy (middle), of Eddy Insurance, presents a $2,600 donation to Rob Mallory, athletic director for Missouri Southern State University, and members of MSSU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee during halftime at the MSSU men’s basketball game recently at the Leggett & Platt Athleti…
Junaid Haroon (from left), cardiothoracic surgeon at Mercy Hospital Joplin; Danny Liu, general and bariatric surgeon; Heath Merkley, OB/GYN; and Michael Herr, vice president of operations, celebrate the hospital’s 2,000th robotic surgery on Thursday.
Joplin Empire Market principals and others cut a ribbon Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the Bunny and Jane Newton Community Kitchen. The kitchen will host the free kids meals at the market, as well as vendors and being open to rent. GLOBE | ROGER NOMER
Abraham Wainaina works on a portrait as part of the fourth annual Black History Month art contest hosted by UScellular and the Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Missouri. To participate in the contest, Boys & Girls Club members create original pieces of artwork representing influential …
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