The death of a 49-year-old inmate at Crossroads, the state’s maximum-security prison in Cameron on Friday, May 6, is under investigation. Timothy Adams was pronounced dead at 12:13 p.m. Friday in the Crossroads Correctional Center. Adams was serving a life sentence for being an accessory to first-degree murder and an accessory to armed criminal action. […]
The Green Hills Heritage Highway work group meets Thursday afternoon in Trenton to review goals, strategies, and a draft plan. This is the fourth in a series of meetings in which people from Grundy, Daviess, and Sullivan Counties have met work towards tourism and economic development in those counties, particularly along Highway 6. Thursday’s meeting […]
Chief Tommy Wright of the Trenton Police Department has awarded the April 2016, Service Integrity Leadership Award (S.I.L. Award) to Lieutenant Rex Ross. Lieutenant Ross is recognized by his peer, Detective Jerry Smith, for his 27 years outstanding service to the community of Trenton, the Trenton Police Department, and his peers. Ross’s dedication to his […]
The Trenton R-9 board of education, following an executive session for personnel last evening, hired a teacher for 8th grade science next year. According to Middle School Principal Dustin Jenkerson, the new teacher at Trenton, Julia Walton, previously taught in Reedsburg Area High School in Reedsburg Wisconsin for the 2014-2015 academic year. She was graduated from University of Milwaukee, […]
Two events are coming up at Mercer, Missouri this Saturday May 14. Mercer American Legion Auxiliary Ladies will be hosting a Veteran’s program at 10:00 am at the Mercer American Legion Hall Ragan-Hickman Post #477. Those with 50-60-70 years of membership will be honored at the program. Dinner will follow the program. It’s an eat what you want […]
In the “first step in exploring water supply” from the new East Locust Creek Reservoir in Sullivan County, the North Central Missouri Regional Water Commission has initiated a recruitment drive to communities and water districts. Specifically, those entities being sought are those who might consider water being supplied from the planned East Locust Creek Reservoir. […]
One of the challenges facing officials of North Central Missouri College is to increase student enrollment. The outgoing president of NCMC, Dr. Neil Nuttall, discussed enrollment recently, focusing on efforts from his arrival in Trenton in 2005, going up to the present time: Two residence halls (or ‘dorms’) on campus are filled with students on […]
The non-profit organization “Cornerstones” holds a program concerning foster parenting on Tuesday night, May 17th in Cameron. The program is called “The Most Rewarding Challenge : An Introduction to Foster Parenting”. Organizers say the program has no obligations, just information. It is Tuesday, May 17th from 6 to 7 o’clock in the evening at the […]
City and rural letter carriers conduct their annual food drive on Saturday (May 14th) to benefit the Community Food Pantry in Trenton. The mail carriers are providing a yellow plastic bag along their routes for citizens to place non-perishable items inside. An envelope is also being provided for people who wish to make a monetary […]
(KUSA) – An elderly couple from Sterling who police said had signs of dementia and hadn’t been heard from by family since leaving for a trip to Missouri on Saturday has been found safe. Sterling Police say Jerry Marshall, 77, and Patricia Marshall, 72, left the eastern Colorado city early Saturday morning. They were headed […]
The Gallatin Board of Aldermen has approved the only bid received for trimming and/or removing overgrown trees along a circuit that feeds electricity to the school. The bid from Sinkhorn Tree Service was $19,500. Crews have been putting in manhole risers for the summer paving of Clay Street. Keller Construction has been hired for that […]
The Chillicothe Area Arts Council is sponsoring an “outdoor cultural luncheon” on Wednesday, May 11th at Silver Moon Plaza in downtown Chillicothe. The Chillicothe High School jazz band performs at 12 noon, followed by Central Elementary School’s fourth and fifth grade “Hornet Stinger Choir”. The one hour program is free to the public. The Silver […]
Several arrests are in this mornings’ report from the Grundy County Sheriffs Office. 33-year-old Jennifer Boullion of Laclede faces two felony counts stemming from a January 29th arrest by the Highway Patrol. She is accused of possession of methamphetamine and resisting arrest for a felony. Bond is 20 thousand dollars cash. 25-year-old Spickard resident, Cody […]
Single vehicle, roll over, accidents last evening in two counties injured teenage drivers. The highway patrol listed 16 year old Alexes Latimer of Hamilton with minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to Cameron Regional Medical Center. The accident was near Hamilton early last evening. According to the patrol report, the southbound car Ms. Latimer was […]
GALLATIN, Mo. – Routes Y and N in Daviess County will close this week for culvert replacements. On Thursday, May 12, local crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to close Route Y between Route 6 and Reel Avenue from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. On Friday, May 13, they will close Route N […]
Here are some specific steps that all graduating seniors should take. Actually, this is good advice for everyone, no matter when or if you’ve graduated from college. Become financially literate Unfortunately, financial literacy in the United States is not widespread. Most high school students fail a personal finance exam (less than 50% of questions answered […]
The Trenton R-9 school district will pay over one point one million dollars in employee health insurance premiums for the fiscal year beginning July 1st. That covers 174 full time employees who will notice a higher deductible and out of pocket expense as a result of a new health insurance plan. The R-9 board of […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting the arrests of several individuals in the area. Including Trenton and Princeton residents. Stetson Turley, 24 of Trenton was arrested on May 8, and placed on a 24-hour hold at the Grundy County Law Enforcement center at the time of his arrest. The patrol alleged that he filed […]
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox has released a report on recent activities and incidents. The Livingston County Sheriff and Missouri State Highway Patrol continued an investigation in rural Livingston County. That investigation involved searching property and seizing alleged evidence from one or more crimes in Livingston County. Additional search, interviews, and investigation is still taking […]
The Chillicothe Police Department has released highlights of recent calls, which include a child abuse investigation, domestic abuse and recovery of a stolen bike. Officers conducted a child abuse investigation in the 1500 block of Calhoun Street. The investigation was deemed unfounded. A black bike with pink rims in the 1000 block of Webster Street. […]
