Dr. Justin H. Yates has been hired as the new superintendent for the Hermitage R-4 School District.
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Chrisalynn Vice, sixth grade
Macks Creek R-5
My class is hosting a drive for The Haven. It is our local pregnancy support center. It provides baby and maternity items for mothers in need. The organization also houses supervised visits for parents trying to build a relationship with their children. They provide hygiene items for any fam…
The Buffalo Bison seventh and eighth grade football team would like to thank the businesses that sponsored meals before games. We really appreciate your help in making our season great. Thank you to O’Bannon Bank; OakStar Bank; David and Becky Phillips with Phillips and Sons Tire Service; an…
The Chorale of Southwest Baptist University will present its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, in Pike Auditorium on the Bolivar campus.
On a drizzling, misty night the top-seeded Fair Grove soccer team and second-seeded New Covenant went through two halves without scoring. In the overtime period, however, the Eagles caught a break when New Covenant was charged with a penalty.
The Skyline football team easily won its first game of the Class 1, District 2 tournament 62-12 over Ash Grove on Friday, Oct. 26. The Tigers scored a touchdown just 17 seconds into the first quarter, and they never gave up their lead throughout the rest of the match.
Fair Grove’s football team moved to 9-1 on the year with a 46-6 shellacking of seventh-seeded Willow Springs Friday night at Fair Grove. The second-seeded Eagles led 24-0 at the quarter and 32-0 at the half.
Buffalo coach Ed Phillips has been right about a lot of things this year, but no “righter” than last week when he said School of the Osage was a lot better than its 1-8 record showed.
Buffalo’s girls cross country team had a good year, winning several meets, but came up short in the Class 3, District 6 meet Oct. 27 at Hollister. The team finished fourth, but they needed to place in the top two to advance to the state cross country meet.
The Buffalo Reflex reported extensively last week about how the Hickory County R-1 School District (Skyline) is considering a four-day school week. As it turns out, the Fair Grove School District is considering the same thing. Both districts have community meetings planned in the next eight …
The Southwest Baptist University Chamber Orchestra will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the Meyer Recital Hall of Casebolt Music Center on the Bolivar campus.
The Hickory County R-I (Skyline) Board of Education met on Wednesday, Oct. 17 for the regular monthly meeting.
The Skyline cross country team ran its last regular season meet of the year at the Montrose Invitational on Oct. 17. The varsity girls finished second as a team. Justin Barb finished number one in the girls race, with Breanna James placing ninth, Elyssa Converse 16th, Emma Cunningham 17th an…
In what was a great basketball ... er, rather football ... game Friday night, Skyline racked up 64 points in a 64-44 win over Warsaw in the last regular season game of the year. The second-seeded Tigers will host seventh-seeded Ash Grove this Friday in the opening round of the Class 1, Distr…
Buffalo’s volleyball team finished in second place in the newly formed Ozark Mountain Conference, barely behind champion El Dorado Springs. The Lady Bison’s season ended Monday night, however, with a loss to California in the opening round of the district tournament.
The Fair Grove Eagles had to travel two hours into Arkansas to find an opponent Friday night, but it was worth it as the Eagles shut out Yellville-Summit 40-0.
Buffalo will play Osage Friday at SBU at 7 p.m.
Buffalo’s girls cross country team continued to be impressive, winning the Reeds Spring meet on Oct. 18. They accomplished this despite Reeds Spring switching girls and boys start times 12 minutes before the race.
The Hickory County R-1 (Skyline) School District will be gathering data and community input this fall in consideration of a four-day school week for the 2019-2020 school year.
Buffalo High School will hold its annual Veterans Assembly on Monday, Nov. 12, with breakfast in the cafeteria a 8 a.m. and the program beginning at 9 a.m. in the field house.
On Friday, Oct. 26, the Dallas County R-1 Alumni Association will host a fundraiser for a 2019 Buffalo High School scholarship. Everyone is invited to support the effort.
Skyline’s volleyball team is fourth-seeded in the Class 2, District 12 Tournament that starts Monday, Oct. 22 at Stockton.
Justine Barb of Skyline won Mid-Lakes Conference girls cross country meet with a time of 21:06 minutes, a new personal record for her. Barb has medaled in all eight races this year so far. She won the Pleasant Hope meet and “has been rewriting the Skyline record books with every race,” accor…
El Dorado Springs (7-1) continues moving forward as the Dogs held off Skyline 28-24, Friday Oct. 12 on homecoming night. The Bulldogs are enjoying the best season of the Coach Derek Scroggins era as they continue to hold on to second place in the district standings, which would give them a h…
Macks Creek’s softball swamped Newburg 17-2 in four innings in the opening round of the Class 1 softball tournament at Richland, but fell to top-seeded Crocker 10-0 in six innings in the semifinals. The Lady Pirates finished the season with a 10-14 record.
The Buffalo Lady Bison golf team wrapped up its season on Monday, Oct. 1 at the district tournament, which was held in Eldon. The Lady Bison highlights from the season were as follows:
Fair Grove’s boys soccer team is seeded #1 in the Class 1, District 6 Soccer Tournament that starts Monday, Oct. 22 at the Cooper Sports Complex in Springfield. The team’s record is 14-5-1.
Buffalo’s volleyball team swept Bolivar on Oct. 9 by defeating the varsity, junior varsity and freshman teams. The Lady Bison lost the first set of the varsity match 23-25, but came right back to win the next two, 25-13, 25-15.
Bode Abraham intercepted a pass and returned it 40 yards down the sideline for a touchdown to put Buffalo ahead for good as the Bison held off previously undefeated Fair Grove 29-22 Friday night.
Emily Rice started out the game with a single in the top of the first inning, but that was the only hit allowed by Bolivar pitcher Katie Brooks as the Lady Liberators shut out the Lady Bison 11-0 in the opening round of the Class 3, District 11 softball tournament Wednesday at Rogersville.
Buffalo’s girls cross country team won the Ozark Mountain Conference meet that was held in Buffalo on Oct. 9. The top runner was from Warsaw, but Buffalo had the numbers - the Lady Bison won five of the top nine positions.
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Skyline Elementary students climbed the wall in the middle school gymnasium as a part of Health Week Oct. 1-5. From left are: Daniel Stroup, Brody Lake, Hudson Dealy, Justice Walters and Adrian Hartley, all part of Mrs. Warstadt’s class. For more Health Week photos, see Page 2A and Page 9A.
The Hickory County R-1 (Skyline) School District will host its 39th annual Senior Citizens Day on Friday, Oct. 26. The program will be held in the new multi-purpose room next to the softball field.
Emma Hackett was accepted into Culver-Stockton College’s fall 2019 incoming class. Hackett, a senior at Fair Grove R-10 High School from Buffalo, also was awarded the trustees academic scholarship.
Fair Grove’s homecoming is Friday, Oct. 12, as the Eagles football team hosts Buffalo. The senior homecoming queen candidates are, seated from left: Macey Stallings, Tausha Todd and Kalyn Wheat. Standing are Audrey Williams, freshman attendant; Elizabeth Holland, junior attendant; and Bailey…
Devin Sprague, Long Lane, earned a spot on the summer honor roll at State Technical College of Missouri in Linn. To be placed on the honor roll, a full-time student must earn a semester grade-point average between 3.0 and 3.499 on a 4-point scale.
Following a tight opening quarter, Strafford shifted to high gear and rolled past Skyline 38-14 Friday night in a Mid-Lakes Conference football game at Urbana. The Indians are now 6-1 overall and 2-1 in conference and will play at Forsyth this Friday in their final conference game.
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Fair Grove’s volleyball team had a great week last week, defeating Bolivar and arch rival Strafford, then finishing third in the Willard Tournament. As a result, the Lady Eagles now have a 23-4-2 record.
Fair Grove’s state-ranked football team traveled to Butler Friday night and led 40-0 at the half. The Eagles cruised to a 46-6 win, improving their record to 7-0 overall and 4-0 in the Mid-Lakes Conference. They won the conference championship with a victory over Strafford last week.
Fair Grove’s boys soccer team has an outstanding 13-5-1 record this year and has been breaking individual records at the same time. Senior Maicol Newkirk has set a Fair Grove career record with 97 goals, and also has the single season record of 34 goals this year.
Buffalo, 5-2, zonked Sherwood 48-20 Friday night, assuring itself of its first winning season in at least 15 years and maybe more. It could have been a lot worse -- the Bison led 48-0 at the end of the first half.
It’s district tournament time for softball, and sixth-seeded Buffalo begins play today (Wednesday) against third-seeded Bolivar at Logan-Rogersville High School. It’s a tough district in that none of the six teams had losing records, at least at the time of the seeding meeting.
Buffalo’s volleyball team did well in conference last week, beating El Dorado Springs and Warsaw. But then they went 0-3-1 in the Willard Tournament over the weekend.
Despite not having anybody in the top five, Buffalo’s girls cross country team won second place at the Buffalo Invitational Thursday. That’s because the Lady Bison captured seven of the next nine places at the meet, which was won by Hollister.
On Oct. 10 the Dallas County R-1 School District will begin a set of surveys to investigate running a ballot issue in April 2019 to be able to build a new agriculture/technical center.
In only its second year of existence, the Buffalo FFA Alumni are making strides in supporting the Buffalo FFA Chapter.
This week’s Bright Smiles Super Brushers are students in Latonya Mekis’ second grade class at D.A. Mallory Elementary School in Buffalo.
