05/30/2026
📸 MAY IN PHOTOS
1 Members of the 2026 Hillcrest varsity baseball team play hacky sack on the diamond after the final game for head coach Ryan Schaffitzel. (Ellie Frysztak)
2. Clarissa Pohlman, a world languages teacher at Pershing Middle School, has been named the 2026-2027 Teacher of the Year for Springfield Public Schools. (Ellie Frysztak)
3. Katherine Wiltse, organizer of the unofficial town hall speaking session during the Webster County Commissioners’ meeting, passionately speaks about the perceived lack of transparency in the data center construction process. (Ellie Frysztak)
4. Webster County Presiding Commissioner Paul Ipock talks to Susan Keene about her concerns on the data center being built just north of downtown Marshfield. (Ellie Frysztak)
5. National Junior Honor Society Historian Penelope Norton gives a tour of an English Language Arts classroom at Pipkin Middle School. (Ellie Frysztak)
6. Jerry Turner, of Strafford, looks for shoes in his size among the donated items that were available for attendees. (Jym Wilson)
7. Darlene Darbo of Shell K**b, MO, came to the event hoping to win a gas card but also picked up some donated food and a plant. (Jym Wilson)
8. Haley Frillman testifies about the 2023 shooting that killed her boyfriend and wounded her during the trial of Quartez Washington on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (Jym Wilson)
9. Rescue One intake coordinator Sherri Jones, left, and foster Rena Rippe soothe a particularly timid beagle. Rippe took this pup home. (Jym Wilson)
10. Like a character out of central casting, Rick Spurlock, of Springfield, takes a drag off his cigarette as his 1957 Ford Custom 300 idles. (Jym Wilson)
