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Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain This poultry pair is ready to offer up seasonings for the season. With tom turkey offering salt, and his hen companion offering pepper, they make a perfect…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain After vandals torched one of the wooden picnic shelters in Budd Park in May 2016, park users were left with only one usable shelter house. At the…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain For a fun recycling project that’s suitable for all ages, save your chewing gum wrappers. While other colorful candy wrappers may also be suitable, the paper gum…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor “In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row…” This poem penned by Lt. Colonel John McCrae (1872-1918) was the inspiration for the Veterans…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Travelers along Missouri Highway 13 knew they were entering the city limits of Springfield when they passed longtime business Carpet Barn and its mascot, a nearly eight-foot-tall,…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Compared to mini-size chocolate bars, the popcorn ball is probably the last item in the Trick-or-Treat bag to be consumed. Fresh popped popcorn coated with a sticky…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor It is a hilly site, overlooking train tracks and industrial buildings. Despite the rumblings of trains and trucks, it is a quiet, solemn corner of our Northeast…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Blast off with three stages of flavor with this aerodynamic confection. The Astro Pop debuted at the height of the Space Age in 1963, developed by two…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor It’s the peanut butter bar that wears the Texas star. Like many during the Depression, Basil Atkinson Sr. was looking for a way to provide for his…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Situated across from the Kansas City Museum, occupants of the historic Stevens House at 3223 Gladstone Blvd. have long had a front yard view of Robert A.…
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