A Carthage City Council committee endorsed a proposal that the city lease a privately owned golf driving range with an eye toward possibly buying the land in the next couple of years.

An inventory of the trees in Carthage's parks will help officials decide where to plant and what trees have to be removed because of the danger they pose.

The owner of the Carthage Golf Center driving range is retiring and offering the city a chance to lease and operate the range this year.

Two employees of D&D Sexton in Carthage were honored at the Missouri Motor Carriers Association 61st annual Safety Awards luncheon recently in Jefferson City.

Ralph “Gene” Conduff was named the May Missouri Driver of the Month and was honored with the 11 other drivers of the month at the luncheon.

City officials met with department heads Tuesday in the second of three meetings to decide how to spend $9.2 million they have to use in fiscal year 2009.

A committee of the Carthage City Council will hear requests for a piece of the city’s budgetary pie over the next three days starting Monday evening.

All county offices that collect money are being asked to develop written procedures for handling that money by Jasper County Auditor Richard Webster.

The offices are also being asked to have separate people collecting money and recording that money to safeguard against theft.

More than 40 years worth of leadership and experience in governing the city of Carthage left the Carthage City Council this week.

It was a relieved group of city officials and planners who gathered at Memorial Hall Thursday evening with more than 20 residents unconnected with city government to help the city plan for its future.

Maid-Rite restaurants has targeted Carthage as a priority city for their 2008 Development Growth Plan.

Maid-Rite, with corporate headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, has been around for 81 years since its founding on Nov. 19, 1926, in Muscatine, Iowa.

More than 40 people replaced the normally sparse crowd at Tuesday's Carthage City Council meeting.

Acoustic music will fill the square on June 14 pending approval by the Carthage City Council tonight at its regular meeting.

All the current officers of the Carthage R-9 Board of Education were re-elected to the same positions Monday night as the school board reorganized at their monthly meeting.

Missouri Southern approved a contract on its second major construction project in four months.

A Carthage High School graduate and retired Missouri Southern State University business professor donated his collection of more than 200 books on international business to Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar.