While school is still in session, the Livingston County Children’s Wellness Committee is already making plans for next school year and will hold the Tenth Back to School Bonanza in July. The free event designed to empower parents and children to learn to make healthy lifestyle choices will be at the Calvary Baptist Church Life […]
The Grundy County Health Department will sponsor a 5K, 10K run/walk on June 16th. The event is one of the activities for Trenton’s Gooseberry Festival that weekend. The health department promotes the 5K, 10K as a family event designed to promote physical activity. Registration is free. The health department has set a deadline of June […]
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox reports the arrest of a Trenton man Saturday on several charges after he allegedly fled from the scene of an accident. Cox says Deputy Nicholas Leadbetter came upon a vehicle with its flashers on stopped in the driving lane of U. S. Highway 65 near the north Chillicothe city limits […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Purdin woman sustained serious injuries in a one-vehicle accident three miles north of Purdin Tuesday morning. Thirty-two-year-old Jennifer Fainter traveled south on Missouri Highway 5 when she fell asleep. Her car then ran off the left side of the road, struck an embankment, went airborne, and then struck the ground […]
The Grundy County Local Emergency Planning Committee will meet to approve the Chemical Emergency Preparedness Fund Packet at a meeting next week. The meeting will be held in the lower level of the Grundy County Health Department in Trenton May 9th at Noon. The agenda for the Local Emergency Planning Committee will also include training […]
The State Emergency Management Agency will provide an Advanced Professional Series Course in Chillicothe next month. An Emergency Operations Center Management and Operations course will be held in the Chillicothe Fire Department Training Room June 12th and 13th from 8 o’clock in the morning to 5 o’clock in the evening each day. The course will […]
A meal will be shared with guests and numerous awards will be presented when the Trenton FFA Chapter holds its annual banquet Friday night. The Trenton High School gym will be the location of the meal beginning at 6 o’clock with honors and awards to follow. The FFA chapter notes that meat for the meal […]
The Senate Bill 40 of Grundy County doing business as the Families and Friends of the Developmentally Disabled Board of Directors has hired a new director. Kayla Graham of Trenton was hired to replace retiring director Sam Day and began her duties Tuesday, May 1. Families and Friends of the Developmentally Disabled Chairman Dan Wilford […]
The Gene Kauffman Scholarship Foundation, Incorporated Board of Directors has announced that scholarship applications for the Fall 2018 semester are now available. As per the wishes of Kauffman, the scholarship is available to female, non-smoking, unmarried graduates of the high schools in Mercer County. Potential recipients must be enrolled as a full-time student in an […]
The public is invited to gather on Thursday outside the Grundy County Courthouse for the National Day of Prayer. The community event begins at 12 noon, on the west (Main Street) side of the courthouse. The event is sponsored by the Trenton Area Ministerial Alliance and is entitled “Pray for America – Unity.” EJ Barnes, Pastor […]
Portions of two Trenton streets will be closed for brief periods of time this Saturday for safety purposes, prior to the two commencement ceremonies for North Central Missouri College. According to the college, the closings involve a portion of Main and Mable Streets between Crowder Road and 12th street. The street closing times on Saturday […]
The Trenton Police Department arrested a Trenton man Monday on three misdemeanor charges. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports 42-year-old Mark Allen Romesburg has been charged with violation of an order of protection for an adult, second-degree property damage, and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond is $3,500 cash only, and he is scheduled […]
All that is left at 729 West 15th street is a pile of smoldering rubble after a fire destroyed the home Monday afternoon. Heavy fire had already engulfed the structure when the Trenton Fire Department arrived Monday afternoon. The house, which burned to the ground, is a total loss, including all the contents. An emergency […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol has announced that sometime during the month of May, Troop H will conduct a DWI saturation in Livingston County. The patrol reports that the area was selected based on the high number of drinking-related crashes, the high number of contact with drivers who have been drinking as well as the […]
All too often, dreams are shattered by the act of being distracted or impaired while behind the wheel. In the last three years, there were 36 fatal crashes and 136 serious injury crashes involving an impaired driver under the age of 21. As a result of making this wrong choice, 53 people died and 184 […]
Trenton High School FCCLA members Sarah Jordan, Mykah Hurley and Salem Croy, with the help of many Trenton R-IX staff members and parents, planned and hosted the THS After Prom following the dance on April 28th. The After Prom started at midnight on Sunday lasting until 6 am. Missouri National Guard Staff Sergeant Bain was […]
A Chariton County accident Monday night injured a truck driver from Keytesville. The highway patrol reports 62-year-old William Fox was taken by ambulance to the University Hospital in Columbia with minor injuries. A state trooper reported Fox was driving a tractor-trailer westbound on Highway 24 when he attempted a right turn onto Route F but lost […]
An Iowa man was injured late Monday night in Daviess County when the southbound car he was driving ran off the right side of 220th Street, north of Beacon Avenue, struck a fence then a shed, coming to a stop against the shed. Fifty-four-year-old Charles Bradshaw of Jefferson, Iowa received minor injuries. Bradshaw was taken […]
A Chillicothe teenager, 17-year-old Blake Curtis, received moderate injuries when the sports utility vehicle he was driving was involved in a rollover accident one mile west of Chillicothe. Curtis was taken by ambulance to Hedrick Medical Center. The reported note he was using a seat belt. The highway patrol reports Curtis was eastbound on County […]
A Princeton resident, 21-year-old Christina Speakman, was taken by ambulance to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton with moderate injuries following a rollover accident three miles east of Princeton. She was not wearing a seat belt. Speakman had been westbound on Highway 136 when the sports utility vehicle failed to negotiate a curve, traveled off the […]
