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Volume 104 • Number 83 • Wednesday, April 30, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO • 75¢
MHS names new coaches
Maryville in bloom
By JASON LAWRENCE Assistant news editor
The reshuffling of teachers and coaches at Maryville High School continued Tuesday as the Maryville R-II School Board approved three coaching reassignments and filled six other positions for the 2014-’15 school year. Two of the positions were vacated earlier this year by coaches with a combined 68 years of coaching experience at Maryville High School. “Not only have these guys been here forever, they’re both legends in their sports. Both are Hall of Fame coaches, and they’re respected coaches,” said Assistant Principal Thom Alvarez, who will take over as MHS principal next year. “It wasn’t easy, that’s for sure.” Science teacher Matt Stoecklein will move over a chair on the varsity boys basketball bench, replacing Hall of Fame coach Mike Kuwitzky, who’s contract was not renewed after he recently completed his 28th season leading the Spoofhounds. “He’s very well respected with the kids. I think they like See STOECKLEIN Page 5
Lynn chosen to lead ACES By JASON LAWRENCE Assistant news editor
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During a brief window of true spring-like weather, last week, a variety of blooming trees, flowers and plants burst open with bright and colorful flowers all up and down the streets of Maryville. The immediate forecast calls for more cool temperatures, clouds and rain. This weekend looks to be sunny with highs in the 60’s and 70’s.
Tamara Lynn always believed her education career path would lead toward administration, and now she is taking that step after being reassigned from Maryville R-II special education teacher to director of the Area Cooperative for Educational Support (ACES) for the 2014-’15 school year. “I have just always thought about getting into administration,” Lynn said. See LYNN Page 5
Tamara Lynn
Mozingo’s popularity soaring among anglers By JIM FALL
Executive editor
Like mushroom hunters, fishermen like to keep close reins on their “honey holes,” but the word is out on Mozingo Lake. Big time. The comparatively small lake located in the center of Maryville’s Mozingo Lake Recreation Park is ranked No. 79 among the top-100 bass fisheries in Bassmaster Magazine’s 2014 list of the most productive sportfishing lakes in the United States. It is one of three ranked spots in Missouri, rated ahead of perennially acclaimed Lake of the Ozarks — No. 96 — and 11 notches behind Table Rock Lake — No. 68. West Okoboji Lake in northern Iowa is the only other destination in the quad-state area to make the prestigious list. No locations
in Kansas or Nebraska were selected. Sturgeon Bay in Lake Michigan is the champion location in the third annual ranking. Clear Lake in California was ranked second by more than 6,000 “voters” who participated in one way or another in the 2014 survey. The two leaders were followed by Lake Erie in the Buffalo, N.Y. area in thirdplace and Idaho’s Lake Coeur d’Alene in fourth. Lake Guntersville, Ala., rounded out the top five. The generate its rankings, the magazine’s editors and writers contacted wildlife and fishery departments in every state to determine which waters were producing the best stringers of fish “based on catch rates and shock data.” In addition, statistical data was collected from “3,500 rabid bass anglers from every region of the U.S. to find
out which lakes were red hot.” Also queried were state conservation directors with regard to “accessibility and health of each fishery,” according to Bassmaster’s James Hall. Once the master list was created, Hall said a “panel of professionals, fishing-industry insiders, writers and traveling anglers came together” to develop the final rankings. Mozingo has long been popular with area angling clubs, which conducted tournaments there almost every weekend during last year’s peak season. Maryville Assistant City Manager Ryan Heiland, who announced the Bassmaster designation to the Maryville City Council this week, noted that the 1,006acre lake is by far the smallest on the list of the 100 elite fishing spots. “This is further confir-
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Mozingo Lake, located just east of Maryville, in Mozingo Lake Recreation Park, has been named to the top-100 bass fisheries by Bassmaster Magazine. mation of everything we believe locally. It is being confirmed on a wider scale,” Heiland said. “Our goal is to make Mozingo a regional destination, and this is great
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publicity toward that end.” “Wow,” said Tory Mason, a Missouri Department of Conservation fisheries biologist who works regularly at Mozingo. “That’s incred-
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ible, but very well deserved. “That puts Mozingo in some pretty good company, there are some great lakes on that list,” he added. “But it doesn’t surprise me at all.”
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