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Mother Road meals, in Missouri and beyond

News Staff

Thursday, May 28, 2026

The Route 66 experience is as much about the meals as it is the miles, we’d learned decades ago, when an impromptu jaunt to the Cadillac Ranch west of Amarillo wound up with a birthday dinner at The Big Texan on the city’s eastern fringes.

HONORING HEROES

News Staff

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Members of the Garza County 4-H and Clover Kids organizations volunteered Saturday, May 23, to place American flags on the graves of veterans in honor of Memorial Day, paying tribute to those who served and sacrificed for the nation.

COURTHOUSE TRIBUTE

News Staff

Thursday, May 28, 2026

American flags honoring veterans flew in the breeze on the grounds of the Garza County Courthouse the weekend before Memorial Day observances in Post.

SPOTLIGHT ON BOOSTER CLUB BANQUET

News Staff

Thursday, May 21, 2026

SPOTLIGHT ON BOOSTER CLUB BANQUET

BOLD GOLD EXCELLENCE

News Staff

Thursday, May 21, 2026

BOLD GOLD EXCELLENCE Post High School students Kody Osborn (left) and Harli Jo McClellan (right) were named 2026 scholarship recipients by the Post Antelope Booster Club in recognition of their leadership, character, community involvement and dedication to excellence as student-athletes.

WITH A PASTA MACHINE, I have used this lasagna recipe for years, tweaking it from time to time. | ANGELINA LaRUE PHOTO

Ya gotta love lasagna

Angelina L

Thursday, May 21, 2026

CUISINE & CULTURE | ANGELINA@ANGELINALARUE.COMI’ve tried my hand at making pasta dough—nothing complicated, just a very basic dough recipe, rolling it out paper-thin and cutting it into squares to make ravioli— sometimes with success, sometimes not.

LIBRARY NOTES

Pam Humble |

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Congratulations to all the graduates of May! Many are proud of you, and most of all, you should be proud of yourselves. Best wishes for a future of achievement, whatever your goal might be.

Birding as a hobby

Ellen Peffley

Thursday, May 21, 2026

CUISINE & CULTURESpending time watching birds flying above and around us, chirping their unique melodies, fills a heart with a sense of calm and wonder. Birds are marvelous creatures.For some gardening is more than just planting seeds and watching them grow. It is a hobby.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

News Staff

Thursday, May 21, 2026

with Pastor Kim NorwoodOrange coveralls and flip-flopsI can’t remember who it was who said this, but it is worth repeating: “If you think that you have nothing for which to be thankful, you need to realize that there is something wrong with you.

SURREAL SCENE in predawn downtown Springfield, Missouri, April 30 is really nothing more than the Southwest Missouri State flag corps proceeding to their lineup point for the filming of an NBC-TV“Today Show Third Hour Live”segment on the birthplace of Route 66.

The Route 66 Centennial Kicks Off

Text And Photos By Barbara Brannon And Kay

Thursday, May 21, 2026

It probably took longer for the army of NBC-TV producers and grips and camera operators to capture the Today Show’s 20-second “Third Hour Live” opener that morning than it did for Cyrus Avery and his fellow highway promoters to debate the relative merits of “66” versus “62” a century earlier.

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