The North Central Missouri Fair Parade will be back this year after not having one last year. Line up will begin August 3rd at 5 o’clock in the evening, and the parade will start at 17th and Normal streets at 5:30. Spokesperson Michelle Shaw says the parade will take the normal route and end near […]
The Clio, Iowa Festival next week will celebrate 50 years. Activities planned for August 7th include a kiddies parade at 10:30 in the morning and the big parade at 11 o’clock. There will be a craft and vendor show, games, face painting, water bowling, a cakewalk, and a cornhole tournament. An ice cream social is […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Norborne man sustained serious injuries when the Missouri Department of Transportation roller vehicle he was loading overturned off the trailer. An air ambulance transported 26-year-old Chilton Elliott to the Truman Medical Center. The vehicle was being loaded onto a trailer when it overturned, striking the ditch. The incident occurred on […]
The Sullivan County Health Department on July 27 confirmed four additional COVID-19 cases, making the total 953. There were 41 active cases and 17 deaths. Thirty and a half percent of Sullivan County residents had completed vaccination as of July 26. Five COVID-19 cases were added in Linn County since July 23. The health department reported […]
The North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees approved bids and purchases as well as personnel matters July 27th. Athletic insurance was purchased through Dissinger Reed of Overland Park, Kansas for the 2021-2022 sports year at a cost of $31,467. That was for $26,980 for secondary accident insurance and $4,487 for catastrophic accident insurance with […]
The Missouri Department of Agriculture, working in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and Missouri State University, has confirmed the first finding of an Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) in Missouri. Missouri becomes the 16th state with a presence of the tick species, following the first confirmed report of the Asian […]
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued updated COVID-19 guidance last week. Missouri School Boards Association Deputy Executive Director Brent Ghan, early in the afternoon of July 27, said the association supported the guidance and urged school districts to look at it. He called vaccination a public health prevention strategy to help end […]
The Highway Patrol reports two Brookfield teens sustained injuries when a car ran into the back of a Peterbilt truck five miles south of Chillicothe on Tuesday morning, July 27. The driver of the car was later arrested. The passengers in the car, a 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, were taken by emergency medical […]
Items are being collected for the 29th Annual Farmers’ Electric Cooperative’s Area Youth Benefit Fund’s fundraising events. An online auction will be held from August 30 through September 12 in place of the annual dinner-auction banquet. The golf tournament will be on August 30. The auction will be available on the Farmers Electric Coop website as […]
The Mid-America Music Festival’s fiscal year does not end until September 30. That means additional funding can be secured for the festival’s charities, including Camp Rainbow, the Green Hills Animal Shelter, and the North Central Missouri Children’s Advocacy Center. Festival fans and supporters can further help the charities through its CFM Insurance Royals Suite raffle. […]
The Ketcham Community Center on the North Central Missouri College campus in Trenton will have the gym floor resurfaced July 30 through August 1. The center will close for the yearly varnish treatment. KCC will close at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, July 30, and remain closed July 31-August 1. The Ketcham Center will reopen for […]
A “Back to School” event is scheduled today (Tuesday, July 27, 2021) in Chillicothe. Free backpacks and school supplies are to be provided for all Livingston County Kindergarten through 12th-grade students who registered with the Livingston County Office of MU Extension. There are no income guidelines on eligibility. The event is listed for two periods […]
Three people from Albany were injured Monday night when a pickup crested a hill and struck the rear of a farm tractor on Highway 136 six miles west of Albany. Upon impact, both the westbound pickup and tractor crossed the center line, traveled off the south side of the highway, down a steep embankment, and […]
(Missouri Independent) – Rolling outages that left thousands without power in February were driven overwhelmingly by fuel shortages — especially in natural gas, executives with the Southwest Power Pool said Monday. This winter sustained frigid temperatures across the Midwest and South forced huge demand for energy while the weather made generators struggle to keep up. The Southwest Power […]
(Missouri Independent) – Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley joined with two of his GOP colleagues on Monday to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. Hawley, a Yale Law School graduate, and former Missouri attorney general, has said before that he […]
A new state task force is seeking comments and suggestions from the public on how to strengthen protections and services for Missouri sexual assault victims. Comments and suggestions are being gathered through an online survey at this link. The survey closes on September 30, 2021. The Missouri Rights of Victims of Sexual Assault Task Force […]
The highway patrol reports a Kansas City resident was arrested Saturday night in Caldwell County. Thirty-two-year-old Katie Grimes was accused of driving while intoxicated, careless and imprudent driving involving an accident, displaying plates of another, and failure to register a motor vehicle. Grimes was taken to the Caldwell County Detention Center.
A Texas resident was hurt early Sunday in Daviess County when the car he was driving traveled off Interstate 35, hit an embankment and overturned. Twenty-year-old Francisco Medina Flores of San Antonio, Texas, was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The accident happened two miles south of the Winston exit; as the […]
Move over, herbicides. There’s a new sheriff in town. And he’s toting some powerful guns loaded with electricity to kill weeds. This shocking new method of weed control was demonstrated at the 2021 Pest Management Field Day at the University of Missouri Bradford Research Center in Columbia. As more weeds develop resistance to herbicides, electrocution […]
As a fourth-generation cattle farmer, Jared Decker knows that cattle suffer from health and productivity issues when they are taken from one environment–which the herd has spent generations adapting to–to a place with a different climate, a different elevation, or even different grass. But as a researcher at the University of Missouri, Decker also sees […]
