Feb 27, 2019 | Community News
Stan Ray is retiring from the Gallatin Post Office after 31 years of service as a rural carrier. Stan started as a substitute carrier in February of 1983 and began full-time in 1990. His last day is Thursday, Feb. 28. Stan served under three postmasters, Clayton...
Feb 27, 2019 | Agriculture, Community News
By Tim Baker, MU Regional Horticulturist I strongly suspect that most people are like me…after the Polar Vortex, snow, and multiple ice storms, I am ready for spring. The promise of nice, warm, sunny spring days ahead really sounds good. I also look forward to...
Feb 27, 2019 | Courthouse News
County Commission The new 2019 Plat Books are available now at the Daviess County Soil & Water Conservation office on Ash Street. James Lewis, road and bridge supervisor, updated the commission on ongoing work. His crew will be working on removing snow and ice...
Feb 27, 2019 | Law Enforcement
2-19-19 9 am – Court in session. 4:16 pm – Report of goose/swan in the middle of DD Highway. MDC contacted. 10:20 pm – Report of motor vehicle accident at 6 Highway and NN. 2-20-19 4:30 pm – Report of vehicle accident on I-35 NB at the 66 MM....
Feb 27, 2019 | Community News, Military/Veterans
Wayne Teel is 94 years old now and doesn’t remember a lot of details about the Battle of the Bulge. He remembers being in a heavy forest. He remembers being cold. He remembers the Germans “shelling the hell out of us.” But the thing he remembers most...
Feb 27, 2019 | School News
The following Gallatin FFA members placed first in their respective proficiency areas in recent judging held at Jamesport. These members earned first place and will advance to state: Tayton Terry, Ag Sales Placement; Addison Burns, Integrated Systems Research; Justice...
Feb 27, 2019 | Opinion, Sports & Recreation
by Benjamin Herrold Missouri lost two games last week, but both were efforts you could take some encouragement from, scrappy losses in tough situations. On Tuesday, the Tigers lost 66-58 at home to a surging, talented Kentucky team. Then, on Saturday, playing on the...
Feb 27, 2019 | Community News, Courthouse News, Law Enforcement
Robert Mazur was sworn in as Daviess County Deputy Coroner by Ronetta Burton, Daviess County Clerk, on Feb. 21, 2019. Mazur, a Daviess County Deputy, was appointed by Coroner Jason Smith and approved by the county commission. Jason Smith was appointed as coroner of...
Feb 27, 2019 | School News
After returning from executive session, the North Daviess Board of Education approved extending the principal contract to Kelly Hightree for the 2019-20 school year. The senior class trip itinerary to Le Clair, IA, was approved. Bus routes will remain on hard surfaces...
Feb 27, 2019 | Sports & Recreation
The Pattonsburg Panthers, in transition, proved to be too much for Worth County Saturday afternoon in the Class 1, District 14 championship game. Revenge may or may not have been a motivating factor for the Panthers after the #4 seeded Tigers knocked off top-seeded...
Feb 27, 2019 | Sports & Recreation
Like all teams that face the Winston Redbirds, the Pattonsburg Panthers didn’t have the option of picking their poison on Tuesday. Less than a week after senior Jacob Lewis torched Wellington-Napoleon for 43 points, senior Cy Uthe scored 29 from all over the floor to...
Feb 27, 2019 | School News
Gallatin FBLA Members, Annie Nelson, McKinley Waters, and Tristen Gibson, of the American Enterprise Team recently met with the Gallatin Middle School 6th grade class on careers. The FBLA CLUE Team, with the support and assistance of 6th grade teacher Mrs. Bond and...
Feb 27, 2019 | School News
There’s little wonder why the Wellington-Napoleon Tigers couldn’t score against Winston in the fourth quarter of the Class 1, District 13 title game on Friday. They just never had the ball enough because they were too busy sending the Redbirds to the foul line. The...
Feb 27, 2019 | Sports & Recreation
Gallatin R-5 High School graduate Tanner Johnson is a member of the Central College (Pella, Iowa) men’s track and field team. The Dutch return 22 letter winners from last year’s squad that finished first in the Iowa Conference outdoor and runner-up in the indoor....
Feb 27, 2019 | Sports & Recreation
It only took a moment but in that moment things fell apart for Gallatin’s girls, who were in the process of upsetting the top-seeded Lady Wolves of East Atchison in Thursday’s semifinal round of the Class 2, District 16 Basketball Tournament. Two things happened. East...
Feb 26, 2019 | Obituaries
Don Masters Sr., age 91, of Gallatin, passed away Monday morning, Feb. 25, 2019 at his home. Don was born on June 30, 1927 the son of Fay and Hazel (Cadwaller) Masters in St. Joseph. On April 7, 1945 he was united in marriage to Betty McCoy in Atchison, KS, and they...
Feb 21, 2019 | Obituaries
Shirley Lucille “Sug” Gibson, of Excelsior Springs, she entered her eternal rest on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, at a nursing home in Excelsior Springs. Shirley was born in McFall, Missouri, to Marshall and Helen (Duerson) Collier. She was a good student in...
