Apr 14, 2021 | Community News, Human Interest
It started a year or so ago when Brooke Lee of Winston hosted a tea party for her sons and nieces and Brooke’s pet goats decided to crash the party. The goats drank everyone’s tea, so the gathering was dubbed the “Goat Tea Party.” Brooke’s aunts heard about the goat...
Mar 31, 2021 | Human Interest
1 can Pillsbury Crescent dough 8 large marshmallows Water Cinnamon & sugar, mixed in bowl Preheat oven to 375º degrees. Spray a cookie sheet or line with parchment paper. Unroll crescent dough and separate each triangle. Have children dip marshmallow in water....
Dec 23, 2020 | Community News, Human Interest
Tunnel to Towers Foundation has paid off the mortgage on the home of Sheriff Andy Clark during its 2020 Season of Hope. DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Clark was killed in a crash on June 3, 2020, while rushing to assist a deputy in an emergency situation in Osborn....
Dec 16, 2020 | Community News, Human Interest
by T.L. Huffman, North Missourian Staff Writer “I’m an open book,” Sean Dinwiddie, 21, says. The Pattonsburg native is not prone to drama. You don’t have to be around Sean very long to realize he’s pretty low key, really, and likely to downplay most...
Nov 18, 2020 | Community News, Human Interest
Bryson Sorrentino is a little boy from Pattonsburg who is always looking ahead. Right now, he’s looking ahead to the day he will hear the most wonderful words in the human language — cancer free! To know how much it means for Bryson and his family to look...
Nov 11, 2020 | Community News, Human Interest
Would you like to get into the holiday spirit and brighten up the holidays for someone in need? You can nominate an area family, child or senior citizen who needs a little extra love this Christmas season! Nominations will be attached to Christmas ornaments on a...
Nov 4, 2020 | Community News, Human Interest, Law Enforcement
In an effort to make the 2020 holiday season a little brighter the Gallatin Police will once again facilitate the Toys for Tots program for Gallatin and the Daviess County area. Anyone wanting to request an item can pick up a wish list form from Gallatin City Hall or...
Nov 2, 2020 | Community News, Human Interest
More than 4,000 locations will now offer a curbside drop-off option for the Samaritan’s Purse project, Operation Christmas Child, including the Pattonsburg First Baptist Church. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 16...
Dec 31, 2019 | Historic Archives, Human Interest
“Where did it come from? How did it end up in the Kulis Building? Who did it belong to?” These are questions that intrigue Jan Stout, about a barn loom recently discovered in a lean-to behind the Kulis building, located next to Courter Theater. In the...
Oct 23, 2019 | Human Interest
By T.L. Huffman Coty Fordyce likes to pack a lot of life into each and every day, so it’s no surprise he managed to get a couple of extra days into 2012. A sailor in the U.S. Navy, Coty completed a trip around the world on a leap year and hit the international date...
May 22, 2019 | Human Interest
Taking care of dead bodies for a livelihood might seem strange or depressing to some people. But for Mariah Gibson, a funeral director and embalmer, it’s a matter of perspective. “I know it sounds weird,” Mariah says. “But I don’t feel...
Dec 5, 2018 | Healthcare, Human Interest
A look back at the Spanish Flu of 1918 This epidemic is the greatest calamity of any kind except war that ever visited the American continent … It is a contagion spreading with inconceivable rapidity, and which has reached the most remote groups of people who...
Nov 14, 2018 | Human Interest, Sports & Recreation
By Vera Nelson Growing up in small Northwest Missouri towns, you come to enjoy that fact that even after you graduate, you still keep those bonds of friendship. Deer Camp for these men has meant camping in some cold barns, tents and even on the ground. That still has...
Aug 29, 2018 | Community News, Human Interest
Do you know any military personnel deployed during December who might need a “Hug from Home?” This marks the fifth year local volunteers are working to give handmade quilts as free gifts to men and women in the U.S. military service stationed overseas...
May 16, 2018 | Clubs & Organizations, Human Interest
The Gallatin Daughters of the American Revolution presented their Patriot Award to Lois Yost in a ceremony on May 9. “We thank Lois for her service to our country and her example to our community,” noted Markay August, Chapter Regent, during the ceremony. “It is with...
May 16, 2018 | Human Interest
Mark Pettit was up on the Gallatin square last Friday, visiting with Clint Vanatta. He happened to be hauling this prize around in the back of his truck. This longhorn steer was five years old and weighed about 1500 pounds when Mark bought him at the Daviess County...
Nov 15, 2017 | Community News, Human Interest
Kate Vanatta has written a children’s book called My Favorite Place to Be. The inspiration for her book is Kelly Vanatta, a 1993 Gallatin High School graduate who passed away from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the summer of 2006 at the age of 31. Kate had been trying...
Sep 13, 2017 | Human Interest
Gallatin R-5 alumnus Amy Woodruff LaBrie lives in Miami, FL, with her husband, Keith, and young daughter, Sara. Amy kept a journal as they waited for Hurricane Irma to pass. Irma disrupted, and continues to affect the lives of millions of people from the Caribbean...
Sep 13, 2017 | Community News, Human Interest
Kenneth and Lola Critten will lead the 2017 Chautauqua parade in Gallatin at 5 p.m. this Saturday as the honored grand marshals. Thus, this couple embellishes the list of honorees saluted by this community since parade grand marshals were first recognized in 1989. The...
Aug 23, 2017 | Headline News, Human Interest
Nobody quite knew what to expect but almost everybody now knows about the 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse. The Daviess County Library spearheaded the local focus on this historic astrological event. Using funds and expertise provided by the NASA@mylibrary program, a...
