1928 – 2008
Alvin (Al) Smith, 80, passed away Friday, July 25, 2008 at the KU Medical Center. Services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 29 at the McWilliams Funeral Home in Gallatin. Family visitation was held Monday evening 6:30 to 8 p.m. Interment was at Highland Cemetery in Hamilton. Memorial contributions may be made to the Highland Cemetery or Children’s Mercy Hospital in care of the funeral home
University of Missouri Extension’s Grow Your Farm is a step-by-step educational program for people new to farming or who are thinking of diversifying their operation. The course is available at various locations throughout the state.
Periodically, e-mails warning of a scam involving calls from the 809 area code circulate.
Two Extension in-field alfalfa meetings will be held Tuesday, August 12 with alfalfa grower, Ronnie Stoll west of Stanberry 2 miles on Highway 136 and the second meeting will be held Friday, August 15 with alfalfa grower Kevin Stiens, 3 ½ miles north of Hwy. 136 on WW northeast of Maryville. Both meetings will start at 8:30 AM.
Missouri fiddlers will pick up their bows in anticipation of earning some of the $1,500 in cash prize money that will be awarded at the Missouri State Fair Fiddling Championship Contest planned for Aug. 17 in Sedalia.
Many Missourians may have an untapped resource to combat rising food costs right in their own back yard: Families with ponds at least one-quarter acre in size can take a bite out of grocery bills by raising bass and bluegill to eat, said a University of Missouri fisheries expert.
by Wayne Flanary, regional agronomist
Debbie and Dennis Carpenter were chosen for Yard of the Month for July by the Gallatin Garden Club. The home is located at 1212 South Prospect.
Pictured is Jayda Paige Mazur held by her mother Lacey Curtis, which makes five generations two ways in the same family with all living in Gallatin. In front are her great-great-grandmother Betty Masters and her great-great-grandfather Don Masters Sr. In the back are her great-grandmother Phyllis Lollar; and her grandmother Tammy Curtis-Mobley.
Gallatin R-5 FFA members Kelsey McLaughlin, Kelly Critten, Kyle Croy and Derrick Sprague, pictured left to right, attended the Washington Leadership Conference held June 17-22 in Washington, D.C.
Harold and Imogene Cameron of St. Joseph will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. A reception will be held at the East Ridge Manor, 1501 Village Drive, St. Joseph, from 2-4 p.m.
Ed and Charlene Arnold of Brimson announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter Rachel to Brady Feigly of Brimson, son of Doug and Lisa Feigly of Gallatin.
Micha Bewley has opened a law office at 205 N. Main in Gallatin where she will practice various areas of civil litigation, primarily domestic, estate planning and probate.
You’d never guess it by looking at this picture, but Daviess County Department of Conservation Agent Alan Bradford said he’s received fewer complaints about nuisance raccoons this year than last year.
Cori Nichols began a full-time position as environmental public health specialist with the Daviess County Health Department on June 23.
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A get together of Whitt-Worley cousins, aunts and their families was held Saturday, July 26, at the Gallatin Dockery Park community building.
The annual Heldenbrand reunion will be Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, at the Winston City Park.
Sunday the Gardner reunion was held at the Pattonsburg senior center.
County Commission
James Lewis, bridge supervisor, reported that flood damage is still being repaired.