Gene Bess retires as college basketball’s winningest coach Gene Bess didn’t give much thought to how long he would stay when he was named assistant basketball coach at Poplar Bluff’s Three Rivers Junior College in 1970. He was just glad to have a job. “Everybody was...
Generations share memories of Youth Tour Kyle Kruse will never forget the day he stepped on the Braniff flight in 1987. At 17 years old, it was his first flight and he was headed to Washington, D.C. “I was just a country boy from Russellville,” says Kyle. “It was a trip...
The Frog is making kids mobile by Heather Berry | hberry@ruralmissouri.coop The front door opens as a flash of green zips through the foyer and then spins around to see who’s arrived. A smile breaks across the face of 2-year-old Brody Moreland, then zip, he’s off...
Living organ donors bonded for life by Heather Berry hberry@ruralmissouri.coop Doncella Liggins won’t forget the day three years ago when she left a follow-up appointment after a weeklong stay in a Kansas City hospital. Her parents, who had come along, waited in the...