Sep 30, 2012 | Regional News
STANBERRY, MO — Data provided by the Missouri Assessment Program and Stanford testing, ACT testing, and annual Performance Report indicates academic health at Stanberry R-2 School District. All spring Stanford reading scores for grades K-2 are above median grade...
Sep 30, 2012 | Regional News
TRENTON, MO — Plans are under way for the 2012 United Way campaign in Grundy County. The event will kick off on Oct. 13 with the annual pancake feed at the Hy-Vee Food Store. The eat-what-you-want, pay-what-you-want event will take place from 7 to 10 a.m. and...
Sep 30, 2012 | Regional News
TRENTON, MO — The Wright Memorial Hospital Foundation presents the first ever Wright Run 5K/10K on Saturday Oct. 6, 2012. Registration begins at 7 a.m. and the race begins at 8 a.m. at the old WMH Medical Office Building on West First Street in Trenton. A $25...
Sep 30, 2012 | Regional News
TRENTON, MO — North Central Missouri College will be adding to its downtown real estate holdings following action taken during a recent meeting of college trustees. Trustees voted to purchase property at 1201 Main St. at a cost of $65,000. The property, owned by...
Sep 30, 2012 | Regional News
SAVANNAH, MO — Savannah Head Football Coach Chad Smith has been indefinitely suspended from coaching but remains on duty as a physical education teacher following news of his arrest on DUI charges on Aug. 4, 2012. The arrest was made by the Platte County...
Sep 30, 2012 | Regional News
RIDGEWAY, MO — Debra Ware resigned as City Clerk of Ridgway, effective Sept. 26, 2012. Ware served in the position for the past eight years and has taken a job with a convenience store. Ware says she is concerned “about the future direction of the...
Sep 29, 2012 | Regional News
UNION STAR, MO — Members of the Union Star United Methodist Church wanted to do something to help children in their own community who are “food insecure,” meaning they do not know where their next meal will come from. The church pursued and was awarded a grant...
Sep 29, 2012 | Regional News
HARRISON COUNTY, MO — A Creston, Iowa, man pled guilty in Harrison County Circuit Court to stealing a semi tractor and to property damage in connection with a bizarre incident that occurred last winter near Blythedale, MO. The man was arrested wearing nothing...
Sep 29, 2012 | Regional News
TARKIO, MO — The Mule Barn Theatre Guild has announced plans to open a place to house Tarkio’s history on Oct. 1, 2012, in the lower level of the Tarkio Resource Center. The Cultural Resource Center’s purpose is to safeguard, gather and preserve the...
Sep 29, 2012 | Regional News
KANSAS CITY, MO — A Kansas man has pled guilty to an amended charge of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of a Gower, MO, resident at a camping resort in Clinton County in June, 2011. Shannon William Todd, 20, of Shawnee Mission, KS, entered the plea...
Sep 29, 2012 | Regional News
TRENTON, MO — The Trenton City Council has agreed to work with the county concerning the possibility of placing a local use tax initiative on the ballot. During a meeting on Monday night, council members asked that an ordinance be drawn up to place the issue...
Sep 29, 2012 | Regional News
CHILLICOTHE, MO — An effort is underway to provide adult bicycles throughout Chillicothe for use by any member of the public. An organization called Simply Achieving Life’s Triumphs (SALT) has made a presentation to the Chillicothe city council outlining...
Sep 29, 2012 | Regional News
LATHROP, MO — Demanding a Clinton County jury trial, Shelley LaRose, former manager of the Lathrop Senior Citizen Housing (LSCH) facility, is now officially suing long-time Lathrop and county political official Jim Crenshaw for sexual misconduct and wrongful...
Sep 28, 2012 | Regional News
HAMILTON, MO — An era has ended for one of Hamilton’s oldest businesses. Photographic supplies and equipment were auctioned off on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2012, marking the end of Photography by Strade, located on Davis Street. The business has been a local...
Sep 28, 2012 | Regional News
LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MO — While a common refrain nationally is that the U.S. manufacturing base has eroded, a significant piece of the economy of North Missouri continues to thrive in manufacturing — and people around the globe depend on these businesses...
Sep 27, 2012 | Regional News
JAMESPORT, MO — The annual Heritage Day Festival in Jamesport was a huge success for 2012. Space in the A.V. Spillman Event Center was sold out with vendors coming from as far away as South Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. Vendor spaces spilled out beyond...
Sep 25, 2012 | Regional News
GALT, MO — Charges of first degree murder have been filed against a 34-year-old Galt man in connection with the shooting death of another man on Sept. 20, 2012. Patrick Brian Courtney is being held without bond in the Grundy County Detention Center, charged with...
Sep 25, 2012 | Regional News
PLATTE COUNTY, MO — Following this summer’s findings of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer in Platte, Madison and Reynolds counties, Missouri’s quarantine regulating the movement of many ash wood products has been expanded. The quarantine, an effort to reduce the...
Sep 24, 2012 | Regional News
SUMNER, MO — The Swan Lake National Wildlife will be hosting a two-day trapping clinic put on by the Missouri Trappers Association and the Friends of Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The clinic is open to all ages and will be beneficial to both beginning...
Sep 24, 2012 | Regional News
TRENTON, MO — Victory Media, the premier media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, has named North Central Missouri College in Trenton to the coveted Military Friendly Schools (R) list. This distinction means NCMC is among the top 15%...
