The Trenton R-9 Board of Education will hold a special meeting next week to hear a proposal from the Salary and Welfare Committee. The meeting will be at the district office on Tuesday evening, February 26th at 5:30. Action is expected to be taken at the board’s regular meeting in March on the Salary and […]
Main Street Chillicothe sponsors a craft beer tasting event in front of Silver Moon Plaza next month. A Drop of Dublin Downtown will be held in an enclosed heated tent the night of March 8th starting at 6 o’clock. Irish rock band Flannigan’s Right Hook of Kansas City is booked to play from 7:30 to […]
Multiple fire departments responded Monday afternoon to a fire that caused most of two buildings to collapse in the 600 block of Main street. A west wall remained upright. A third building remains standing but the extent of damage is unknown. The location is across from the Law Enforcement Center in downtown Trenton. Destroyed were […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Bethany woman sustained minor injuries when the car she drove struck a Missouri Department of Transportation truck Friday afternoon five miles south of Pattonsburg. An ambulance transported 28-year-old Andrea Miller to Harrison County Community Hospital of Bethany. The truck driver 62-year-old Homer Rainey of Gallatin was not reported as injured. […]
The Grundy County R-5 Board of Education has approved hiring a Carrollton man for the seventh through 12th-grade Principal position for the 2019-2020 school year. William Dow was hired during a closed session Wednesday evening. He will replace Randy Huffman, who has been the seventh through 12th-grade Principal for 14 years. Grundy R-5 reports Dow has been […]
Pleasant View R-6 Superintendent Rebecca Steinhoff gave a report on snow make-up days during the Board of Education meeting Thursday evening. Make up days for Pleasant View will include February 18th, April 22nd, and others at the end of the school year. The last day of school is now scheduled for May 22nd. Secretary Brenda […]
The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of two Saint Joseph men in Livingston County on Wednesday night. Forty-four-year-old Corey Barron was arrested on felony probation and parole warrant for possession of a controlled substance, a Buchanan County misdemeanor warrant for a traffic offense, and a Saint Joseph Police Department misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear […]
The Princeton R-5 Board of Education approved next year’s school calendar Wednesday evening with school scheduled to begin August 21st and end May 20th, 2020 for Princeton. The Annual Performance Report was presented. Princeton R-5 received 112 and a half points out of a possible 120 points overall for 2018, which equates to 93.8%. The […]
The Grundy County R-5 Board of Education discussed inclement weather make-up days at its meeting Wednesday evening. Nine of the 12 days Grundy R-5 missed have to be made up. February 18th, March 15th, and March 18th will be used as makeup days. Classes will dismiss early March 15th, with the high school at 12:30 […]
Part of Hickory Street in Chillicothe will be closed Thursday, February 14, for concrete replacement. Hickory Street will be closed from First Street to the railroad tracks until Monday. The Chillicothe Street Department reports M and M Utilities will dig out the rock spot where the tubes were placed under the street and put concrete […]
The month of February is national American Heart Month and Wright Memorial Hospital’s Senior Life Solutions program is working to raise awareness of the connection between heart health and emotional health. In February of 1964, a national campaign began declaring February as American Heart Month in an effort to help bring awareness to the number […]
More area Shopko stores are scheduled to close between now and mid-May meaning many employees of those stores would lose employment. The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based retailer’s website provides a list of the Shopko locations to close, which now includes Trenton, Gallatin, and Memphis in northern Missouri and Mount Ayr, Iowa. The list previously reported only Albany […]
