Kirby Payne, executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Daviess County announced that producers can elect and enroll in the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program beginning April 27. ACRE is a provision of the 2008 Farm Bill.
by Wayne Flanary, Regional Agronomist
The order of Missouri’s antlerless and muzzleloader seasons is reversed this year.
This year’s Hamilton Young Adult Theater League Production has been cancelled, according to directors Pat Brown and Karen Cox, due to scheduling conflicts.
Gallatin varsity boys are once again battling the weather as they look toward season’s end and district play next Monday at Richmond, but that hasn’t kept them from posting some of their best scores of the season.
Gallatin varsity track teams found good weather and competitive action at last Thursday’s Albany Relays. The Bulldogs see their season winding down with tomorrow’s schedule trip to South Harrison and a return to Albany next Tuesday for the conference meet.
1927 – 2009
Peggy Belshe, 82, passed away Thursday April 23, 2009 at her home near Gallatin. Services were held at 11 a.m. on Monday, April 27 at McWilliams Funeral Home in Gallatin. Family visitation was held prior to the service. Burial was in the Hillcrest Cemetery near Gallatin. Memorial contributions may be made to the Charles Belshe Scholarship Fund in care of the funeral home.
Graveside services for Charles Savage were held at April 26 at the Savage Cemetery, Pattonsburg.
Funeral services for William Gibson were held April 26 at Bram-Turner Funeral Home in Maysville, with burial in Lake Viking Cemetery.
Clarence William Lear, 79, formerly of Pattonsburg, now of Charlotte, N.C., passed away at his home April 22.
A memorial service for Laura Clapham will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 30, 2009, at Roberson Funeral Home, Bethany. Her family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the American Cancer Society or to Hospice.
by Tim Baker, Northwest Region Horticulture Specialist
by Joe Snyder
by Freida Marie Crump
The Missouri Department of Agriculture has set an administrative hearing for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, at the Gallatin High School to establish a payout plan for distributing the proceeds of bonds to farmers who lost money when the Gallatin Grain Company went out of business.
Green Hills Martial Arts of Gallatin, owned by Tim and Linda Dunaway, will present a free community seminar from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 8, at 609 B Lana Drive (behind Burger King) in Cameron.
Recently, Northwest Region Workforce Investment Board/North Central Missouri College (NW WIB/NCMC) announced it will be providing a summer employment program that will prepare young Missourians in the northwest Missouri region, including Daviess County, for exciting careers in the high-tech, high-paying industries of the 21st century.
Currently there have been no cases of swine flu identified in Missouri, according to Cheryl Alexander, administrator at the Daviess County Health Department. Nevertheless, state and local health officials and the medical community have been on high alert since Friday because of the contagious nature of the new flu virus.
Skin cancer is on the rise. The American Cancer Society reported in 2001 that melanoma (just one type of skin cancer) accounted for 51,400 of the cases of skin cancer in the United States.
During the regular meeting held April 27, City Administrator Zac Johnson told the Gallatin Board of Aldermen that the city will not be applying for the 2009 demolition grant.