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Progress in the Parks: Buggy about Bugs Clint Dalbom Parks Superintendent One day this past spring I was in the Neosho Parks Department Office doing weekly paperwork when I received a telephone call. The young man on the other end of the line identified himself as an employee of Missouri Department of Agriculture and was asking if it would be okay if he hung a couple emerald ash borer traps in Morse Park along Hickory Creek. Much of my career with the Missouri Department of Conservation I worked with different insect outbreaks or population surveys of one type or another. Most of the traps th...

Closing of Broadway Street receives no second, other city council updates Neosho Daily News The Neosho City Council met for their first of two meetings this month on Jul. 6, hearing comments from citizens, accepting bids, having the final readings for various bills, declining to close a portion of Broadway Street and discussing new business. Visitor’s Business Of the six citizens that spoke at the Jul. 6 meeting, four of them gave their opinion on the closing of a portion of Broadway Street, from Benham Avenue to Sherman Avenue. Teresa Niswonger, Jewell Benner, Paula Sprenger and Rusty Spr...

Trout Opener in Neosho Staff Reports For many, the opening of trout season is the first harbinger of spring. The anticipation of putting on waders and watching the sunrise is the cause for celebration. For those in southwest Missouri longing for a day on the streams, your destination could be as close as Neosho. Hickory Creek flows 2.7 miles through Morse Park from the headwaters to the confluence with Shoal Creek just north of Neosho. As it passes through Neosho, the stream is considered a White Ribbon Trout Stream, meaning that it is periodically stocked with rainbow trout by the Missouri D...

Submitted by Clint Dalbom, Neosho Parks Director Neosho Daily News With spring just weeks away, the city of Neosho Parks Department has announced plans for multiple improvements in 2021. The city continues to invest in the parks department to provide residents with plenty of outdoor recreational options. “Someone asked me if this year was going to be a letdown since we do not have any big projects in the works like we did last year. The development of the bike trails at High Ground Bike Preserve did in fact keep us busy throughout the year,” Parks Director Clint Dalbom said. “We were ex...

This past year has been filled with news of developments concerning the Neosho bike trails. One year ago, from this point the mountain bike trails in Morse Park were a greatly anticipated thing. We could only imagine what they might end up looking like. The conceptual plan was nearly developed, and we all had high hopes of what this all might bring.Here we are a year and change into this project, still searching for additional grant monies, waiting on local funding opportunities, and refining