PIAC funding to improve Budd Park with shelters
By 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…
By 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…
By 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.…
Dorri Partain Contributor Ask any school-aged child what their favorite class is and they’re likely to reply, “recess!” Making recess even better is the goal of a local benefactor who…