Last Saturday, Dec. 9, the Marshfield Police Department partnered with the Webster County Children s Division, and the Marshfield Walmart SuperCenter held its annual Shop with a Cop. This program was established in 1994 and is a yearly event sponsored by local law enforcement agencies that aims to provide children with a happier holiday season and encourage positive relationships with police.
For what is presumed to be the first time in Missouri, a father/son pair has harvested a pair of black bears in the same season. Doug and Gage Fannen were drawn in this year’s lottery by the Department of Conservation to participate in the third annual bear season in Missouri. Both of them filled their tags on the Fannen family s 300-acre farm located just inside Douglas County.
Growing up on a farm in Kansas, Marshfield Police Chief Doug Fannen says he always dreamed of being a police officer, but envisioned a career of farming in his future. Ultimately, he decided that serving the community through law enforcement was his destiny. He graduated from the academy in Kansas and started out as a police officer in his hometown of Fort Scott, where he worked for a few years before moving to Utah. He went through the academy in Utah and was hired at the Lehi Police Department where he also attended the Advanced Officers Academy. It was also here that he met his wife and had three boys.