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If your family is looking for fun Easter activities for the kiddos this year, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s our pick of the best events in Joplin for Easter 2024.

If you’re in Southwestern Missouri and wondering where to see Christmas lights near you, you’ve come to the right place.

Holidays are fast approaching, which means one thing: Christmas lights display tours! While some people crave bow-adorned gifts under a tree, we can’t get enough of the local holiday decorations.Here are a few of the best Christmas lights to see around Joplin and Carthage. (Click here to view a Map of locations.)

Back in 2018, I became a MoviePass member. If you don’t remember MoviePass, allow me to illustrate the absurdity that was its subscription plan: For about $10 a month, you could watch one film in the movie theater, every day.

Yes, you read that correctly. One in-theater movie, per day, for an entire month – all for less than the cost of a cheap oil change.

Ready for everything Halloween brings? The candy. The costumes. The silly-stringed car sitting in your driveway (where are those ruthless pranksters’ parents?). And, of course, the trick-or-treating – or trunk-or-treating, if you’re someone who likes to be efficient.

To ensure you’re getting the sugariest bang for your buck this Halloween, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of 2021’s best trunk-or-treat events in Joplin, Carthage, Springfield, and the surrounding areas. Grab your pillowcase because things are about to get crazy.

Whew. What a year that was, huh? Now that everything appears to be returning to normal – or as close to normal as it can get during a pandemic – it's time to enjoy our first big summer holiday: Fourth of July! (Can you tell that we’re excited?)

Yet even with this new sense of normalcy, some of the area’s best Independence Day events from 2020 are off the books this year. (But some are still going strong.) Here’s where you can see July 4^th fireworks around Pittsburg, KS in 2021.

This holiday season will look unlike any other in recent history. But just because we’re social distancing doesn’t mean Christmastime has to be void of that traditional sense of glee! You and your family can still safely celebrate the holidays by visiting a drive-thru Christmas light show or display. In fact, you all deserve it.

So, grab some blankets, pour a thermos of hot chocolate, and hop in your Honda to check out our 6 favorite local Christmas events around Joplin.

You wake up in the morning after dressing like P. Diddy for Halloween. With a cup of coffee in hand, you draw back the shades and see that the unthinkable has happened: Your brand-new blue CR-V is covered in Silly String – goopy, gloppy, goofy string. You do a spit-take with your java, raise your fist in the air and shout, “Curse you kids!”

But is it just a playful Halloween prank, or can Silly String really damage your car, forcing you to shell out Benjamins for auto body repairs?

The simple answer is: Yes, dried Silly String has the potential…

Fourth of July fireworks won’t be like normal in 2020, that’s for sure. With COVID-19 forcing nearly all Independence Day events to be canceled across the country, you may want to forego your typical holiday tradition this year.

Wait – what are we saying? As Americans, it’s our obligation to celebrate July 4^th, even if it will look and feel a whole lot different. Here’s how to take part in summer’s first hurrah in the Joplin, MO, area.

In 2020, Easter falls on Sunday, April 12th. If you have young kids at home or just love Easter, then you're looking forward to all the fun activities from Easter egg hunts to spring parties. Of course, with the recent outbreak of COVID-19, most of these egg hunts have been postponed or even canceled for the safety of the Joplin community, our kids and older people.