AIRWAY HEIGHTS - Each year as part of capping their year, the West Plains Chamber of Commerce celebrates achievement in various areas through its "Best of the West" Awards Gala. In normal circumstances the winners in a variety of personal and business categories would be celebrated live at a dinner event. But in 2020 due to constraints from COVID-19 - like many others - the Best of the West was held virtually on Friday, Nov. 6.

Based on voting from chamber members, awards were bestowed as follows.

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The difficulty nominators had in a far from normal year picking the Best of t...