Catherine Riley 1931-2016

Funeral services for Catherine Riley will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, at Roberson-Polley Chapel, Albany, with burial in the Grandview Cemetery, Albany. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service on Thursday, at the chapel, where friends may...

Prestigious honor to Dr. Dickinson

The Missouri Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians has announced that Larry J. Dickinson, D.O., has been named the 2017 Missouri Osteopathic Family Physician of the Year. The honor will be presented to Dr. Dickinson at the Annual Winter...

Attempted sale of meth thwarted in Pattonsburg

Two Independence residents were arrested Nov. 21 after driving to Pattonsburg to deliver methamphetamine to a confidential informant of the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department. Jon Edwin Thomas Hyatt, 39, and Courtney D. Hughes, 36, both of Independence , were...

Daviess County Sheriff’s Office Incident Summary

11-22-16 7:46 am – Semi off the road and down the embankment on Highway 6 just east of Gallatin.  No injuries. 1:48 pm – Possible rollover accident on Highway 69 between Altamont and Winston. No injuries. 2:40 pm – Warrants were issued for two...

Daviess County Courthouse News

County Commission Daviess County received a certificate of training from the Office of Prosecution Services regarding program training hours that meet the requirement in 2016 for Annie Gibson, prosecuting attorney. Road and bridge crews have been working on wooden...

Poosey Digest: All in this together

by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. Someone had shrunk the house. There was no other logical explanation. I’d spent hundreds of hours of my childhood exploring the nooks and crannies of Grandma’s house, jumping on each piece of her furniture, inspecting each...

Charles Klindt 1922-2016

Memorial services for Charles Klindt are being held today (Nov. 29, 2016) at the Bram-Danfelt Funeral Home, Maryville. Inurnment will be at a later date in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Maryville. Military services were held at the conclusion of the memorial services at the...

William (Spence) Elbert 1944-2016

William (Spence) Elbert, 72, of Gallatin passed away Nov. 26, 2016 at his home.  Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, December 1, 2016 at McWilliams Funeral Home in Gallatin. Visitation will be Wednesday evening 5-7 p.m. where friends may call after 11:00...

NHS Food Drive nets over 1,000 items

The Gallatin National Honor Society participated in a food drive Nov. 7-11 to benefit the local food pantry at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Gallatin. Elementary and middle school classes competed all week long to see which classroom could donate the most items....

Lake Viking Quilters donate to sheriff’s department

By Troy Lesan During the nearly eight years in which Ben Becerra has been sheriff, he has tried to make his law enforcement department a vehicle of outreach as well. Especially with the youth. Ben has seen firsthand how children can often be both the direct and...

Gallatin club discusses service projects

Carol Weaver presided over the Nov. 7 meeting of the Laureate Delta Rho chapter of Beta Sigma Phi at the home of Lois Agenstein recently. Service projects discussed included Christmas Around the Square on Nov. 19 and adoption of a family for Christmas. Lois and Cliff...

Area woman fatally injured in accident

A Cainsville woman was fatally injured in an accident that happened at about 12:55 p.m. on Nov. 9, in Harrison County. According to the highway patrol, the crash occurred as Chrystal Everett, 34, Cainsville, was southbound on Route B, about two miles north of Mount...

Daviess County Courthouse News

County Commission James Lewis, road and bridge supervisor, reported that the crews will be finishing the placement of a corrugated metal pipe on Drake Avenue in Salem Township and placing a tube on Grate Avenue in Grand River Township. Craig Lambert, Salem Township,...