Mission Statement The mission of the Springfield Daily Citizen is to inform our community and be a catalyst for good. Our vision is to reinvent local news in Metro Springfield by telling the stories of our community, bringing issues to light, encouraging

Mission Statement The mission of the Springfield Daily Citizen is to inform our community and be a catalyst for good. Our vision is to reinvent local news in Metro Springfield by telling the stories of our community, bringing issues to light, encouraging

Learn all about a bird with a captivating mating ritual and a dwindling grassland habitat at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center on Jan. 18

Barbara Kipfer laughs as she thinks about the gardening choices she made in the early 1970s, when she and her husband, Bob, moved with their family to their southwest Springfield home. Like many other new homes in the neighborhood, their professionally la

Cities and towns across Missouri are telling their stories and adding beauty through colorful murals. Discover how these murals have transformed neighborhoods, learn what it takes to create a mural, and see beautiful examples of the art form. On your driv

When Anneliese Kerr considers why she traded in her dream of wearing a chef’s hat for a farmer’s overalls, she talks about road trips in an old Honda with her mother and sisters to pick strawberries. “My favorite thing when I was a kid (was) driving out t

The mission of the Springfield Daily Citizen is to inform our community and be a catalyst for good. Our vision is to reinvent local news in Metro Springfield by telling the stories of our community, bringing issues to light, encouraging discourse and insp

When Christian Madsen was growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, the purpose of one of his toys — a ball roughly the size of a golf ball, only rubber — was a mystery to him. But as a boy, he gave it little thought. He joined the cross-country team and played socc

Hometown entrepreneurs spark Neosho’s resurgence. Growing up in Neosho in the 1950s, Judith Haas Smith had it made. There were sixteen neighborhood kids—enough for a baseball game at Big Spring Park down the steep hill from her house. Just up Spring Stree

Passing by a familiar corner on one of this southwest Missouri town’s major thoroughfares, Ozark residents may wonder how anyone ever managed to turn an old street into bountiful gardens. In a valley near the Finley River, sweet peas and strawberries flourish where asphalt sealed the soil just two years ago.

Once a speakeasy, The Garrison is a feast of flavor, art, and history. Photographs show our family and friends gathered in front of mirrors under strands of mini-lights. Or, even better, sometimes we’re standing with our backs to Howard Garrison’s paintin

This article originally appeared in the May 2022 issue of Missouri Life magazine. Her face practically fills the frame. You can see every freckle—and the determination in her eyes. She’s Abby, a twenty-two-year-old with Down syndrome who wishes servers wo

Eclectic north side neighborhood is a mosaic of stories Stand at the east end, and you’ll see a chocolate factory next door to a 125-year-old family-owned hardware store, both facing railroad tracks laid more than 150 years ago. At the west end a half-mil

It’s a windy November evening after sundown. Downtown Buffalo is quiet. Then, empty parking spaces on the west side of the square begin to fill. Braving the chill, people quickly exit their vehicles and hurry down the sidewalk to an open coffee shop on the corner. Inside Maple & Main, under the high tin ceilings of what used to be an old-fashioned drug store with a soda fountain, they slow down, catching up on neighbors’ lives and stopping at the counter for a cup of warm brew or a slice of homemade pie.

Brian Fogle and Rob Fulp will never forget the moment their small-town high school band stepped off the bus in the big city of Washington, D.C., and they’ll never forget the days of their respective weddings, which happened one year apart. If you ask them

Eight years ago, when the owner of Environmental Works Inc. was killed in a plane crash, her company lost a trusted leader, and the culture at the company would never be the same. The tragedy eventually led to clarity at the consulting and industrial services company Robin Melton founded in 1992, but not before her 2012 death left “a real gaping hole in the business,” says CEO Jamie Sivils.