Apr 28, 2021 | School News
Gallatin seniors Nichole Lopp and Calvin Grady were named as the 2021 Gallatin R-5 Prom queen and king at festivities held April 24. The promenade was held at the United Methodist Church, with the dance following at the Spillman Center in Jamesport. After-prom...
Apr 28, 2021 | Regional News
A collaboration between the University of Missouri and North Central Missouri College has resulted in a new weather station at NCMC’s Elizabeth and Arthur Barton Farm at Trenton. Phil and Chris Hoffman, retired owners of the Hoffman & Reed grain elevator in...
Apr 28, 2021 | Community News, School News
The 41st annual Gallatin Alumni Banquet will be held May 29, 2021, at Gallatin High School. The banquet was cancelled last year due to COVID, so the classes of 1970 and 1971 are hosting this year. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. with dinner being served at 5:30 p.m. The...
Apr 28, 2021 | Community News
Dungy’s Grocery Store in Gallatin is in the midst of making a big improvement, with all new freezers being installed on the sales floor. It will likely be a couple of weeks before the freezers are filled for your shopping pleasure. The Dungys and their employees...
Apr 28, 2021 | Community News
Construction of a Dollar General Store is well underway in Altamont. The site is located on Highway 6, across from Wall Street Station. Expected completion of construction is July 2021. The concrete work is being done by Booker Foundation and Flatwork out of...
Apr 28, 2021 | Agriculture, Regional News
In recognition of the Missouri Bicentennial, this year’s Century Farm application deadline has been extended to June 1. “With our partners the Missouri Farm Bureau and the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, we want to be sure every eligible farm...
Apr 28, 2021 | Opinion
I first pondered longevity while digging post holes for a new fence as my dad directed. I was hardly big enough to roll the rather huge post into the hole just dug by hand. I wondered why the posts we cut from the timber were always hedge. Rather than roll his eyes or...
Apr 28, 2021 | Legislation, Opinion
On April 22, the Missouri Senate Appropriations Committee passed its version of the 13 bills that comprise the state operating budget for the 2022 fiscal year. Next, this blueprint will move to the full Senate for discussion. After the Senate’s version of the budget...
Apr 28, 2021 | Legislation, Opinion
America used to be a country of doers. We built the roads, bridges, and the entire interstate highway system. Now, instead of building, we’re busy digging through endless piles of paperwork. A complex highway project takes an average of seven years to go through the...
Apr 28, 2021 | Legislation, Opinion
Entrepreneurship is one of the keys to a well-functioning society. Brave individuals or willing to put out their shingle to open or expand a business can create jobs and prosperity in our state. But sometimes, the financial risk appears too great for the possible...
Apr 28, 2021 | Legislation
By Kelly Dereuck Missouri News Network A bill to require out-of-state retailers to pay sales tax on online purchases passed the House Ways and Means Committee on April 21. If passed, Missouri would be the last state to tax out-of-state businesses selling online...
Apr 28, 2021 | Legislation
By Lianna Kowalke, Missouri News Network Lawmakers largely agreed upon the idea of requiring public schools to allow homeschooled students to participate in extracurriculars during a debate April 20. The division occurred with the part of the proposal that would take...
Apr 28, 2021 | Legislation
By Caitlin R. King Missouri News Network A bill that would prevent construction of the Grain Belt Express was debated by the Committee for Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment on April 21. Sponsored by Sen. Jason Bean (R-Holcomb), Senate...
Apr 28, 2021 | Courthouse News, Law Enforcement
After a report that a felony fugitive was hiding at a Gallatin residence, officers responded to the Brian Deweese residence in Gallatin on April 20. Deweese, 40, gave false information to the officers by saying that the fugitive, Terry Overturf, a known sex offender,...
Apr 28, 2021 | Church News
On April 25, the Lake Viking Church was the scene of a very different sort of service. It’s not often that we can witness Christian evangelists breaking baseball bats over their heads or ripping steel license plates in half – with their teeth! – but that is exactly...
Apr 28, 2021 | Obituaries
John Keene Leopard, age 95, of Gallatin, passed from this life on Friday evening , April 23, 2021, at Livingston Manor Care Center in Chillicothe. He was born on Nov. 4, 1925, the son of Dean H. and Luzelle Leopard in Gallatin, where he grew up and later graduated in...
Apr 28, 2021 | Obituaries
Cynthia “Cindy” Rocker, 64, of Roeland Park, KS, passed away April 25, 2021. She was born on Sept. 28, 1956, in Garnett, KS, to Richard and Roberta Rocker. Cindy graduated from Shawnee Mission North High School in 1974. She worked at Mast Advertising & Publishing...
Apr 28, 2021 | Obituaries
Roger “Mark” Cooley, 61, Kidder, passed away at his home April 26, 2021. Mark and his family moved to Kidder in 1993 from Independence. Mark was born on July 17, 1959, in Quincy, IL, to Francis Junior and Anna Mae (Rose) Cooley. On June 5, 1977, he married...
Apr 28, 2021 | Obituaries
Mary Lou Leach of Cameron passed away April 26, 2021. She was born Jan. 3, 1936, in Cameron to Teddy and Lillie (Patterson) Milligan. Mary Lou graduated from Hamilton High School. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Cameron. She married Charles Leach on...
Apr 28, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
A 31-year-old Cameron man was flown by Lifeflight Eagle medical helicopter to Truman Medical Center in Kansas City after being ejected through the sunroof of his car, in an accident that occurred about 7:55 p.m. on April 24 about one mile south of Pattonsburg on U.S....
