Joplin Progress Committee tops board candidate Shawn McGrew's contributors

Shawn McGrew, seeking his first term on the Joplin R-8 Board of Education, received $1,050 in contributions by the end of the reporting period, according to his 40-day-before-election report, filed Monday with the Missouri Ethics Commission.

Out of that amount, $1,000 came from the Joplin Progress Committee, with McGrew contributing the other $50 to his own campaign.