Spickard Mayor Alan Tharp reports the precautionary boil advisory has been canceled for the City of Spickard. The advisory was put into place Thursday due to cleaning of the water tower. Sullivan County Public Water Supply District Number 1 has lifted a precautionary boil advisory for Sullivan County Rural Water customers. The advisory affected Route […]
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Sullivan County Route 6 West Locust Creek Bridge to reopen Saturday
The Sullivan County Route 6 bridge over West Locust Creek, east of Humphreys, is scheduled to reopen by the evening of Saturday, September 14. Boone Construction Company, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, began work in mid-May to complete a bridge replacement project. All work is weather permitting and subject to change. Motorists are […]
Boil advisories issued for portions of Grundy and Sullivan Counties
Grundy County Public Water Supply District Number 1 has issued a precautionary boil advisory due to main water line leak repair. The repair was made in the area of Route W and Southwest 20th Street. The affected area includes Highway 6 to the Grundy-Livingston County line and the Thompson River to the Grundy-Daviess County line. […]
Newtown-Harris Board of Education to hold community meeting on 4-day week
The Newtown-Harris R-3 Board of Education approved after-school program contracts, the Local Program Compliance Statement, and the substitute list Monday. Policy updates were also passed. There was a discussion on how to move forward with the elementary school boiler. Superintendent Lucas McKinnis thanked the staff for its “excellent” handling of a lockdown last week. He […]
Community of Spickard placed under boil advisory
The City of Spickard will be placed under a precautionary boil advisory starting Thursday, September 12, 2019, due to cleaning of the water tower. The Spickard City Clerk reports the advisory will go into effect at 8 o’clock in the morning and continue until further notice.
Gas leak in Trenton prompts closure of 9th Street, evacuation of residents
A reported gas leak in the vicinity of 9th and Custer streets in Trenton is prompting the temporary closing of a portion of East 9th Street this afternoon. Motorists are asked to avoid the 9th and Custer area until further notice. A contractor struck a gas line today in the vicinity of 9th and Custer […]
Portions of Grundy County placed under boil advisory
Rural water customers in northeastern Grundy County have been placed on a precautionary boil water notice as of Wednesday night. According to the Grundy County Public Water Supply District office, customers affected are within the area from Route NN, east to the Sullivan and Grundy County line. The north boundary for the advisory is the […]
West Nile virus season is not over yet
Though mosquitoes often become a nuisance in early summer, the danger of catching a mosquito-borne illness continues into the late summer months. As long as temperatures remain warm, mosquitoes will continue to be a pest and a potential danger to one’s health. So while Labor Day marked the unofficial end of summer, the Missouri Department […]
Audio: Missouri issues health advisory associated with vaping
The Department of Health and Senior Services has issued a health advisory to providers and partners regarding severe lung disease associated with vaping. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there have now been 193 potential cases of severe lung illness associated with vaping in 22 states from June 28-August 20. The CDC is […]
Sullivan County bridge projects progress is slow, but steady
After facing continued delays due to weather and flooding, Boone Construction Company, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation has made steady progress on both the West Yellow Creek and West Locust Creek bridge replacement projects. Crews expect construction on the West Yellow Creek Bridge, east of Milan, to be completed in late August and […]
Escapee from Mercer County Jail back in custody
Information has been released about a prisoner who had escaped but has been returned to custody at the Mercer County Jail in Princeton Friday night. Mercer County Sheriff Stephen Stockman reports 27-year-old Drake Kately of Kansas City was found hiding in an apartment in Princeton and apprehended around 12:30 am on Saturday morning. Stockman says […]
Motorists will need to find alternate routes due to road work in Adair County
The Missouri Department of Transportation plans to work on several roads in Adair County this month as weather permits. Highway 6 will be reduced to one lane while work is completed on the bridge by Hobby Lobby in Kirksville Monday through next Thursday (August 15th). The work will be completed from 7 o’clock in the […]
Resurfacing underway on Livingston County Highway 65 and Linn County Route M
Work is underway on both U.S. Route 65 through Chillicothe and on Linn County Route M. Missouri Petroleum, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, began work earlier this month to prepare the roadways for a micro-resurfacing project. Over the course of this week, crews will remove the existing pavement markings in preparation for a […]
Be a safe swimmer this Summer
Warm temperatures attract people of all ages to Missouri’s many lakes or rivers to go swimming and to cool off. Beating the heat in this manner is part of summer. “It’s fun to go swimming,” said Captain Matthew C. Walz, director of the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Water Patrol Division, “but understanding the risks and […]
Portions of Sullivan County placed under boil advisory
Sullivan County Public Water Supply District Number 1 has placed some Sullivan Rural Water customers under a precautionary boil advisory. The advisory affects customers north of Browning on Highway 5 to Denver Road and includes Desert, Woodland, Estate, White, Wizard, and Valley roads. The precautionary boil advisory continues until further notice.
Boil advisory issued for portions of Sullivan County
Sullivan County Public Water Supply District Number 1 has issued a precautionary boil advisory due to work on water mains. The advisory affects Sullivan County Rural Water customers on Orion Road east of Galaxy Drive, Gully Road, Gully Drive, and Gator Drive. The advisory will continue until further notice.
Ragu pasta sauce recalled due to plastic in the product
Mizkan America, Inc., announced the voluntary recall of select production codes of certain RAGÚ pasta sauces in the U.S. because the sauce may contain fragments of plastic. There have not been any reports of consumer injuries or complaints. Mizkan America is taking this action out of an abundance of caution. This recall is at the retail level and […]
Tractor destroyed by fire on Friday afternoon
A tractor is considered a total loss after a fire in Livingston County on Friday afternoon. Chillicothe Fire Captain Derrick Allen reports an engine and two firefighters arrived at 15600 LIV 432 to find a midsize tractor completely consumed by fire. There was also hydraulic fluid leaking from below the cab on fire, which he […]
For added fall fescue growth, hold off nitrogen until August
Tall fescue, Missouri’s most used pasture grass, provides fall and winter grazing with proper management. With growing concern about the lack of stored forage, grazing offers potential feed this year. Fescue grows in two distinct seasons, spring and fall. Fall growth isn’t as robust as in spring. With good management, fescue gives grazing well […]
Two vehicles strike cow in roadway sending three to hospital
The highway patrol reports separate accidents at the same time late Thursday night in Worth County involved two vehicles striking a cow in the roadway on Route Z two miles west of Grant City. Eighteen-year-old Dagon Cooper of Grant City was driving a sports utility vehicle southbound when the cow was hit. 19-year-old Cierra Runnels […]