The Missouri Job Center has relocated its north Springfield satellite office to Community Partnership of the Ozarks’ O’Reilly Center for Hope, 1518 E. Dale St., effective Aug. 1. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.. “The move to the O’Reilly Center for Hope will…
Author: Melissa Haase, Managing Editor
The City of Springfield is gathering feedback on conceptual design plans for safety and pedestrian improvements along Kansas Avenue between Walnut Lawn and Maplewood Streets in the Greater Parkcrest Neighborhood. An informational open house is scheduled 5-7 p.m., Thursday, July 14 at Amazing Grace Fellowship Church (3801 S. Kansas Ave)…
Birthplace of Route 66 Festival organizers have added an additional night of free entertainment to kick off the festival. The Rockin’ the Route 66 Kickoff Concert and street party will begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11 at the Aaron Sachs Stage (Jefferson Avenue and McDaniel Street) with Static in…
Restore SGF, a grassroots community initiative to improve housing conditions and raise residential property values in Springfield’s historic neighborhoods, is gaining momentum with a $300,000 funding allocation from the City of Springfield’s 2022-2023 fiscal year budget, which became available July 1. This funding is in addition to investments totaling $240,000…
Springfield-Greene County Health and Community Partnership of the Ozarks are partnering to make Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) services more accessible for families near the O’Reilly Center for Hope in the Robberson neighborhood. The new clinic location will allow the program to reach more families to provide important nutritional and…
Work is set to begin this summer on Springfield’s third community to house the chronically homeless. The Gathering Tree Inc.’s Eden Village 3 will be a duplex tiny home community located at 2419 W. High in the Tom Watkins neighborhood. The site is already zoned for duplexes, said Chief Visionary…
Zone 1 City Councilwoman Monica Horton loves northwest Springfield. She and her husband Leonard and daughter Ari’el live in the Grant Beach neighborhood, but have lived in Westside, Bissett and Heart of the Westside neighborhoods since moving to Springfield in 2013. Horton grew up in Kansas City and has lived…
The City of Springfield and City Utilities hope to have a consultant selected to create a master plan for Lake Springfield by the time this edition of SGF Neighborhood News is printed. Following the decommissioning of the coal power plant in the spring, Lake Springfield was identified as an opportunity…
Monica Horton is City Council’s newest member. City Council interviewed four applicants for the Zone 1 seat. appointing Horton with seven votes in one round of voting. Steven Sexton received one vote. The other applicants were Karen Banta and Kathy Hubbard. Horton will serve in the Zone 1 seat until…
A $3.8 million project to add turn lanes and guardrail, widen existing turn lanes and resurface asphalt is under way at West Bypass and Kearney Street. The project will be complete by December, weather permitting. The work will be done during both daytime and nighttime hours to reduce the traffic…