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🌱 How a $20,000 grant will change Carthage ag classes

Coming up on the Carthage Patch calendar: Maple Leaf Festival 2026

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Good day Carthage! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a $20,000 grant will change Carthage ag classes
  • Why Maple Leaf's 60th parade is honoring its original visionary
  • How a Stockton Lake deal could secure Carthage's future water

Also on today's calendar: Maple Leaf Festival 2026 | Carthage, MO and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Heavy rain and a thunderstorm, with a high of 76 and low of 60 degrees.
  • Friday: Clouds giving way to some sun, temps: high: 70, low: 56.
  • Saturday: Some sun with a stray t-storm, with a high of 74 and low of 53 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Carthage Technical Center receives FFA grant (fourstateshomepage.com) — Carthage students will soon gain a new outdoor classroom on the high school farm, thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Missouri FFA Foundation. The Carthage Technical Center will use the funds to build a pavilion-style learning space on its 25-acre farm, expanding hands-on opportunities in livestock, plant science, and other agriculture programs for local teens.
   

• Chamber honors Maple Leaf creator Robert S. Dale posthumously as festival's 60th grand marshal (carthagenewsonline.com) — Carthage will honor Maple Leaf Festival founder Robert S. Dale as the 60th anniversary grand marshal, with his daughters riding in the Oct. 17 parade. The Chamber is using this milestone to celebrate Dale's decades of civic leadership and highlight the many volunteers, contests, and family-friendly events that keep the Maple Leaf tradition thriving for Carthage residents.
   

• Southwest Missouri water coalitions finalize 30-year Stockton Lake deal (ky3.com) — A new 30-year agreement to draw water from Stockton Lake is set to supply up to two-thirds of southwest Missouri's future needs, including eventually reaching Carthage. Regional water coalitions say the long-planned project will create infrastructure jobs and extend pipelines from Springfield west toward Joplin and Carthage while emphasizing conservation of Ozarks water resources.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Thursday October 1
  • CHS Girls Golf @ COC West Tournament
    Carthage High School Carthage, MO 64836
    8:30 am
  • CHS Volleyball vs. Webb City (Senior Night)
    Carthage High School Carthage, MO 64836
    4:30 pm
  • Webb City Girls Varsity Volleyball @ Carthage →
    Carthage High School, 2600 S River St, Carthage
    4:30 pm

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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