Roundabout OPEN the New Roundabout Is Open to Traffic at Hubble Drive (Route CC) and Banning/ Buffalo Streets in Marshfield
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Sports Commission Awards honor 50% OFF First area athletes Individual Tax Return 222 S. Crittenden, Marshfield PAGE 1B We’ve Moved!417-859-7655 1324 Spur Dr., Ste. 240 Marshfield marshfi eldmail.com $1.00 Vol. 129, No. 23 August 12, 2020 417-859-7655 590508J Apartment owners clarify details of swatting story Eva and Daniel Howard caught up in standoff saga By Karen Craigo — mainly that there is not a system of has tunnels, my home, his home, and karenc@marshfi eldmail.com tunnels connecting apartments in the probably every home in the county has building, as was described to The Mail tunnels, too. A few things surprised local land- by Marshfi eld Police Chief Doug Fan- When asked about the tunnels, lady Eva Howard when she picked up nen. She even invited this reporter to Chief Fannen replied that he didn’t last week’s issue of The Mail. come over and take a look. see them himself. “We were just told It was at Howard’s apartment build- It’s an important clarifi cation for about them from numerous people ing where a reported standoff took Howard, who, with her husband Dan- who claimed to have seen it and even place Aug. 1, and she was there for iel, is trying to fi x up her apartments used it,” he said. “I guess it was one Contributed photo by Eva Howard much of the seven-hour ordeal. with an eye toward selling them. more lie we were told on top of many.” An offi cer stands outside of an apartment Howard wanted to clarify some in- Daniel clarifi ed that there is a crawl- where an armed suspect was thought to be correct information that was reported space, so if the apartment building See SWATTING, Page 2A inside in Marshfi eld on Aug. 1. LRHS Class of 2020 celebrates Roundabout OPEN The new roundabout is open to traffic at Hubble Drive (Route CC) and Banning/ Buffalo Streets in Marshfield. Mail photo by Sarah Bicknell Mail photo by Sarah Bicknell The O’Reilly Family Event Center at Drury University in Springfi eld served as the perfect spot for the Logan-Rogers- ville High School Class of 2020 to celebrate their graduation ceremony Aug. 8. Polk County Xxxx XxxxxxxxWebsterCOUNTY xx xxx xxx County STASTICS Total Cases Since Beginning 137 Current Active Cases Cases Reported 24 Total Hospitalizations Since Beginning 5 Current Hospitalizations 0 Total Deaths Give her a project and she’ll roll with it Since Beginning 1 Total Tested By Sarah Bicknell projects she can get her hands on. “All I do is cut the tomatoes and Since Beginning sarahb@marshfi eldmail.com When you walk into the dining room can them,” said Rust. “With the 3642 of the house, you’ll notice a robin egg honey, all I do is clean and sterilize elinda Rust laughed when blue mantelpiece. the jars. I’ll buy the tomatoes from Tested she was selected as the next “I bought this whole mantel,” said the farmer’s market or local markets. Negative 3509 candidate for the “Tag, you’re Rust. “It was just wooden and I repaint- I own 16 chickens and trade eggs for it!”B feature series. ed it. My husband repaired it. I always bread with Katie Miller, who sells her In this feature, we write a have to have a project going.” bread at the farmer’s market.” Negative profi le about one fascinating In the kitchen, Rust In another part of the house, an Test Rate 96.3% Webster County resident, who spends time canning and old baby bed on rusty wheels sits then nominates our next sub- uses tomatoes, green against the wall, next to the closet. Tested ject. Rust is our fourth story peppers, onions and jala- When she got it, Rust said it was all Positive subject, having been nomi- peños to create salsa. Her in one piece and had layer upon 137 nated by tea room owner, husband, Richard, makes layer of paint. Alice Bertoldie. fresh honey from Positive “I just fi nished reading their bees. See RUST, Page 8A Test Rate 3.8% Alice’s story, so I knew this was coming,” Mail photos by Sarah Bicknell said Rust. Rust created this memory bear and others like it ououtt of old Source: Missouri Department of Health and Rust’s specialty T-shirts and clothing provided to her. The bear proprojectject was Senior Services and Webster County Health Unit is projects, in fact, started in memory of her daughter-in-law’s mother. various creative INSIDE Marshfi eld girl OBITUARIES • Michael Ross Atteberry • Cheryl Ann (Kolesar) Richards TODAY’S rides her way • Kelly Jannell (Custer) Driskell • Robert Lee Sees ISSUE to victory. 8B • Jonathan David James Goodman • Pamela Diann (Reynolds) Wagoner 8 95401 00100 4 Marshfield 222 S Crittenden, Unit C Mountain Grove Ozark 205 W. 3rd St. Unit 6 340 S. 3rd St 591515ma Entire contents copyright © 2020 The Marshfield Mail Entire contents copyright © 2020 2A | The Marshfield Mail | August 12, 2020 NEWS SWATTING: Apartment owners clarify details in standoff saga Continued from Page 1A it would be fine for her to enter. story that Eva really wants a clari- Eva have been cleaning them up, use of a robotic camera to Chief Fannen suspects that When she did, she got the fication of — and so does Daniel, though — evicting people who search the apartments at the his department was the victim surprise of her life: She walked who looked a little cranky about are in legal trouble and repairing scene, but the camera missed of a swatting call, through which through the unit into the middle the matter. The story I wrote last and sprucing up the units. that cocooned suspect who was people falsely call in violent bedroom and saw a man’s leg week contains this sentence: “Fi- Chief Fannen had told The snoring away under the covers. crimes in hopes of raising up a sticking out from beneath a nally, the landlady asked permis- Mail that the place where the This explanation doesn’t satisfy heavily armed police response. cocoon of covers. sion to get into her apartment, standoff took place, the 200 Daniel, though. The chief noted that two alleged “He was all wrapped up in and there she found the suspect block of North Street, is a notori- “Who in their right mind hostages released at the scene the covers, and I couldn’t see his lying on her bed.” ous area of town for drug use. would let someone go in when were urging police to kill the head,” she said. “I need you to get that man “If they know it’s a drug area, they’d been there seven hours? person who was allegedly holed Eva said that she knew the out of my bed,” she laughed. why don’t they clean up the Why wouldn’t he go in himself?” up inside. man had either overdosed and Eva and Daniel live outside of mess?” Daniel asked. Daniel asked. Eva Howard is having a hard was dead or was passed out. She town, and the bed in question Of all the aspects of the stand- It was a day when Chief time getting over the event that called the dispatch (not 911, she was in a vacant apartment. Eva off that occurred, one concerns Fannen reported being on the interrupted her Saturday two clarified — police had been there says she’s had a lot of questions Daniel more than any, and that is receiving end of quite a few lies weekendsDate Modifi ago. ed: She August spent 3, 2020 much 9:37 AM all day, and this didn’t seem like about the man in her bed — and that his wife was cleared to enter and deceptions — and the dis- of that day by the side of an an emergency). Daniel said that’s one of the an apartment unaccompanied covery of the suspect, Ben Chris- 87-year-old resident who was In short order, police officers reasons he came home from his when the suspected gunman tian, was a shock for everyone. forced to evacuate one of her came running down the road out-of-town job. (Daniel has a had not been located. Eva and Daniel believe that apartments during the stand- and up the front steps, and the deadpan delivery, so I’m certain “I can’t understand a police they are helping people out by off, and at the end of the ordeal sleeping subject they’d been that was a joke.) The main reason department that would allow providing low-cost housing and she was permitted to take him looking for all day was appre- he came home, of course, was to my wife to go in without making giving people a chance to live a back inside. hended. Eva said that she was get to work on the damage the sure it was safe for her,” he said. better life in their apartments. Eva then went to check on an left scratching her head at the apartments sustained during the “Who would let a woman go “We’ve been able to help a lot apartment that had had both the strange turn of events. Why was standoff. The cleanup is going to into an apartment without first of people who are trying to get front and back doors smashed the apartment not checked dur- cost hundreds of dollars. checking it out? That’s their job. off of drugs and drink,” she said. in. She first consulted the police ing the seven-hour standoff? Daniel admits that their apart- To me, they failed at their job.” “Everyone deserves a sec- to ask if it was OK, and they said Now comes the part of the ments are not luxurious.