• Gov. Eric Greitens last week made two appointments of individuals with ties to Texas County. Teresa Acord, of Eminence, was appointed as the new Shannon County public administrator. She is an adult education and literacy instructor at Missouri State University and owns a bed and breakfast. She previously worked as an adult education instructor at Houston.
Nicole Wood was appointed as a member of the Missouri Conservation Commission. Wood will be the successor to James Blair.
Wood is the director of operations at Woodland Operations and Maintenance, where she is involved in the daily management of 20,000 acres of land. She worked on the establishment of a conservation easement in Texas County targeting the restoration and conservation of the Current River watershed.
Her father, Howard, was a commissioner from 1997 to 2003 and is a principal in Bee Rock Land LLC near Raymondville. He made a mint in the cable television business.
Wood serves on the National Wildlife Federation, the Conservation Federation of Missouri, the Parkland Hospital Foundation Board and the National Wildlife Federation Endowment.
• Odds and ends: It will be Sept. 1 — one month later — before insurance companies post health insurance premiums for 2018, reports the Consumers Council of Missouri. All the upheaval on the national level was cited as the reason…Sen. Mike Cunningham reports that MoDOT in the last year has improved more than 60 miles of paved roadways and added more than $885,000 in guardrails across the county during the last year…Carol Silvey who worked in Texas County during past affiliations with Missouri State University and Community Foundation of the Ozarks has been named director of the Ozarks Medical Center foundation beginning Sept. 1…
• Coming next week is the annual Texas County Fair results section, which includes comprehensive fair results and photographs.