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Hannah Spaar receives the 2017 Tilghman Cloud Memorial Editorial Award for small weekly newspapers for an editorial published in Focus on Oak Grove.

Hannah Spaar receives the 2017 Tilghman Cloud Memorial Editorial Award for small weekly newspapers for an editorial published in Focus on Oak Grove.

 
 

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Hannah Spaar is the news editor of The Odessan and Focus on Oak Grove. She started her career at age 10 with the column she still writes in The Odessan and now oversees coverage of seven municipalities, three school districts and two fire districts. She has won statewide news and editorial contests and was named the Missouri Press Association's Outstanding Young Journalist in 2016. She has also been named the 2019 president of the Show Me Press Association board of directors, which oversees the regional press association of central and northeast Missouri. Spaar's well-documented interests include travel, Mizzou sports, reading and her family's pets.