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…
Author: Melissa Hart, Managing Editor
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…
What started as a grassroots effort to combat food insecurity and food waste in Europe in 2015 has resulted in brightly painted refrigerators popping up on street corners across the U.S.Later this year, Springfield’s first community fridge will be built by Drury University architecture students and professional mentors near the…
Public Viewing: April 23–May 8 Lawn Art With Neighbors (L.A.W.N.) returns in 2022 and invites the community of Springfield to create a work of art in your front lawn for a city-wide public art exhibition. L.A.W.N. is a city-wide public art exhibition made for front lawns by community members located in…
The former Doling Elementary School, 1423 W. Atlantic, will have new life breathed into it when it reopens as New Moon Studio Space. Doling opened in 1916 and closed in 2002 and for the most part has sat empty ever since. City Council approved a conditional use permit for the…
West Central neighbors are encouraged to enjoy the new half-mile Ozark Greenways trail connecting West Meadows north of the Birthplace of Route 66 Roadside Park. The trailhead is located on the west end of the trail off of Fort Street and includes a parking lot. Access the trailhead by turning…