The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office recently received orders to transport the following people to the Missouri Department of Corrections to serve a sentence or attend a treatment program: Sean P. Biller, 29, Chillicothe Probation Violation – Possession Controlled Substance – 7 years Tyler M. Gibson, 24, Chillicothe Violation Order of Protection – 4 years ITP Austin R. […]
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Cameron man accused of sexual contact with students at Maysville
A Cameron man faces multiple charges in DeKalb County after being accused of sexual contact and other charges while employed at the Maysville School. 39-year-old Rodney Thomas is accused of 19 counts on various dates during the past three years. Prosecutors charged Thomas with eight counts of a teacher having sexual contact with a student; […]
Sunnyview announces Employee of the Month
Sunnyview Foundation Inc. announced the March employee of the month based on resident and family nominations. Dustin Hall has been an employee with Sunnyview since 2014 and works as a dietary aide. He received an employee of the month parking spot and a $25 check from the foundation. The Sunnyview Foundation held a community appreciation […]
Accident at 9th and Main in Trenton sends 3 to hospital
Three individuals were transported to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton by ambulance after a traffic accident at East Ninth and Main Streets in Trenton Monday morning. The Trenton Police Department reports 63-year-old Stanley Richardson of Galt stopped in the westbound lane on Ninth Street for a red light at the intersection when 30-year-old Casey Jones […]
Spickard Board of Education votes to use its own buses
The Spickard R-2 School Board of Education approved to switch from contracted transportation to in-house transportation at its meeting Monday evening. The school district will switch from Durham School Services to buying and using its own buses. It will co-op bus maintenance services with Princeton.
Area students do well at FFA competition in Savannah
Trenton and Princeton high schools each had two first place winning FFA teams in career development events judging held Monday at Savannah. Trenton took top honors in meats and ag sales while Princeton had the top teams in judging horses and the FFA knowledge competition. Other area schools winning first place in the Savannah judging include […]
Grundy County expands adult education, literacy course offerings
Grundy County has expanded its Adult Education and Literacy course offerings. Morning classes have been added to provide more adults the opportunity to earn a high school equivalency diploma and provide them with a better opportunity for career placement or college enrollment. The Adult Education and Literacy courses started in May 2016. The Northwest Workforce […]
Trenton teen remains in critical condition at Columbia hospital
Nineteen-year-old Trenton teen Jose Barron IV remains in critical condition as of this Tuesday morning. That according to a representative of the University Hospital in Columbia to whom KTTN News spoke with this morning. A tragic crash on Monday morning happened as Barron was southbound on Highway 65 in Pettis County which caused him to […]
Livingston County Sheriff: Suspect swallows baggy of possible dope
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports a suspect swallowed unknown contents of a baggy while being arrested in Utica Saturday night. Cox says a deputy stopped a vehicle with out of state plates for traffic violations and found two men on probation or parole occupying the vehicle. He reports the driver was found to be […]
North Central Missouri College hosts Educators Forum
The North Central Missouri College Teacher Education program hosted the Second Annual Educators’ Forum for current and prospective teacher candidates. The forum consisted of a formal question and answer session and an informal mixer to allow candidates to network with panel members and each other. The panel of professionals discussed their teaching experiences and other […]
Livingston County Health Center to hold Prenatel Yoga classes
The Livingston County Health Center will hold Prenatal Yoga classes for expectant mothers in their second or third trimester. The classes will be held in the Health Center classroom the first three Thursdays of each month from 5:30 to 6:30 in the evening. Licensed Massage Therapist and Doula Kayla Moss will instruct the three-week class […]
Mercer woman arrested on check charge
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Mercer woman on a felony charge of passing a bad check of $500 or more with no account or insufficient funds. Fifty-nine-year-old Vickie Russell was arrested Monday. Her bond is set at $1,100 cash only, and she is scheduled to appear in the associate division […]
Yet another grass fire burns 100 acres near Brimson
Grundy County Rural Fire Protection District responded yesterday to a grass fire in a field about one mile from Brimson. Rural Fire Chief Kenny Roberts said perhaps 100 acres burned but some of that was due to a controlled burn apparently conducted on Sunday. It was late morning on Monday when the rural department received its […]
Joe Lear returns to northwest Missouri as new MU Extension regional director
Changing jobs from the director of enterprise server technology at Kansas State to regional director for the University of Missouri Extension might sound like an odd career move, but Joe Lear is not new to extension nor to northwestern Missouri. Lear, who became director of MU Extension’s Northwest Region in February, is a native of […]
North Central Missouri College to host Ag Club Contests
More than 70 area high schools with an estimated 1,700 agriculture students are pre-registered to be on the campus of North Central Missouri College in Trenton this Thursday, March 23 for the annual NCMC Ag Club Contests. The event is held in cooperation with FFA Area 2 Agriculture Educators. Students will be practicing their judging […]
“Trenton’s Got Talent” fundraiser canceled
Due to a lack of entries by the deadline, the Trenton Rotary Club has canceled the “Trenton’s Got Talent” fundraiser that was scheduled for Friday night. Club representatives are working on another fund raising activity later in the year with details to be announced. The club is raising local funds to match a Rotary district […]
Green Hills Project tour to be held March 25
A Galt couple, Dennis and Becky McDonald, will host a Green Hills Farm Project tour at their farm this Saturday, March 25th. The tour begins at 12 noon at 410 Northeast Highway J near Galt. McDonald has done rotational grazing his pastures for over 25 years. The tour will include stockpiled pasture usage for the […]
Drivers face one lane at Cameron as bridge deck replacement enters final phase
The bridge deck replacement project that rerouted traffic last year still has one final phase of the project to complete. Contractors working with the Missouri Department of Transportation will begin the final phase Saturday, April 1. During the work, Interstate 35 and U.S. Route 36 may be reduced to one lane in each direction around […]
Your April 4 election preview for north Missouri
As many as 25 entities in Grundy county did not have to have ballots printed for the April 4 election because they obtained the exact number of candidates filing as the number of positions to be filled. In these instances, persons who did file, automatically assume office after the election date. County Clerk / Election […]
Trenton woman struck by car near Lathrop
A Trenton woman struck by a car at 4:15 this morning in rural Clinton County four miles south of Lathrop. 21-year-old Courtney Michael of Trenton was a pedestrian struck by the left front of a vehicle operated by 47-year-old Terry Osborn of Lathrop. The impact knocked her to the left shoulder of the roadway. The […]