Dec 31, 2018 | Obituaries
Donna Lee (Phillips) Love, 84, Independence, formerly of Gallatin, passed away Dec. 29, 2018, surrounded by her loving family. Donna was born April 4, 1934, in Kansas City, to Laverne and Georgia Phillips. In 1951 she married Marvin Leroy Love making a home in Kansas...
Dec 28, 2018 | Obituaries
Max Grisamore, 83, a lifelong resident of Jamesport, Missouri, passed away on Monday, December 24, 2018, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Max was born in Daviess County, Missouri, on October 1, 1935 to Virgil Grisamore and Evelyn (Robinson) Grisamore,...
Dec 26, 2018 | Courthouse News
County Commission James Lewis, bridge supervisor, met with the commission and reported his crew would be continuing repair on the shop this week. They will also be making repairs to tubes and bridges in Union and Jefferson Townships. Discussion was held regarding the...
Dec 26, 2018 | School News
The North Daviess School Board decided at their Dec. 17 meeting to do a “needs assessment” to determine if the school should seek additional storage space. Superintendent Dan Street called for estimates on the tuck-pointing work needing to be done. In other business,...
Dec 26, 2018 | Sports & Recreation
Gallatin’s girls held East Buchanan to 22% shooting from the field and took a huge edge in rebounding on their way to a 34-29 victory last Saturday in Holiday Hoops action in Trenton. Caragan Baker and Karley Salmon led GHS scorers with 8 points each. Claire Hemry,...
Dec 26, 2018 | Community News
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced Dec. 19 that Knox County Sheriff Robert Becker, 51, pled guilty to charges of sexual abuse and domestic assault and will resign. He pled guilty to sexual abuse in the second degree and domestic assault in the fourth...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
Dec. 26: Blood Pressure checks 11-12. Jan. 1: Closed New Year’s Day. The Active Aging Resource Center is pleased to announce their eighth annual Light A Candle fundraising event. Donations can be mailed to AARC, PO Box 272, Gallatin, MO 64640 or dropped by our center...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News, School News
The Gallatin R-5 Board of Education agreed to add another year to Dr. Bryan Copple’s superintendent contract, extending it through June 30, 2022. In other business at their meeting held Dec. 17, the school board accepted resignation letters for retirement from Lori...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
Property taxes largely fund public schools and are the main source of revenue for many of Missouri’s special purpose political subdivisions and county boards, according to Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway. The State Auditor’s Office and county...
Dec 24, 2018 | Headline News
Allee Prescott, like all little girls, likes to play dress up. Only Allee’s dolls weigh about half a ton and stand about 15 hands high. Allee loves horses. She loves to ride horses, train horses, and take care of them. Allee competed in the Missouri State Fair...
Dec 24, 2018 | Headline News
Almost eight million people have seen The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs, AR, since it opened in 1968, including many from our area. But did you know some of the characters in the play have a Gallatin background? Cary Tate, a 1982 graduate of Gallatin High...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
Ashley M. Gadberry, West Plains, formerly of Gallatin, has been awarded the Darr Scholar Award from Missouri State University-West Plains. Gadberry, a 2017 graduate of Winston High School in Winston, is a sophomore general studies major at Missouri State-West Plains....
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
Kylie Collins of Gallatin has been named to the Southeast Missouri State University dean’s list for academic achievement during the fall 2018 semester. Students named to the list earned at least a 3.75 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, completed at least 12 hours of...
Dec 24, 2018 | Agriculture, Community News
By Tim Baker, MU Regional Horticulturist Every year, extension agricultural specialists in the Northwest Region conduct meetings that we call “ag updates.” These are held in almost all of the counties in our region. The idea behind these meetings is to provide another...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
Kids, families, and community members will now be able to fish off the bank of the Dockery Park pond while enjoy the wildlife and all the rest of the park’s natural landscape. Park Board member Ira Sloan says it has been a problem keeping the park’s pond clean for...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
According to AAA, texting increases the risk of a car crash by 50 percent. Sending or receiving a text takes a driver’s eyes from the road for nearly five seconds. At 55 mph, that is the same as driving the length of an entire football field blindfolded. According to...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
Irene Frost’s 102nd birthday is Jan. 1, 2019, and her family is sure that she would enjoy seeing visitors and getting cards. Irene is in room #311 at Daviess County Nursing and Rehab Center, 1337 Business Highway 6, Gallatin, MO 64640. Irene’s children are Duane and...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work in Daviess County planned for the week of Dec. 24 – 30 from the Missouri Department of Transportation: Route TT – closed for a culvert replacement a 0.25 miles north of Route J, Dec. 27, 8...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News, Law Enforcement
The Daviess-DeKalb County Regional Jail at Pattonsburg will meet at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 28, at the training center. Old business will cover an update on the budget proposal and “Shop with a cop.” New business items will include officer rotation for 2019 and the...
Dec 24, 2018 | Community News
North Central Missouri College recently collected gifts for children and monetary donations for the Green Hills Women’s Shelter in Trenton. NCMC employees and constituents donated approximately 20 gifts for boys and girls of various age ranges and over 200 dollars....
