It was a busy day at the Mercer County Fair as judging took place in a variety of shows. Here are the winners from the day’s events. Rabbits: 1st place- Ava Power with Cotton Tail, Princeton 2nd place-Alexis Schurke with Snow White, Princeton 3rd place- Coley Power with Snowball, Princeton Chickens: 1st place- Katlyn […]
Rabbit, chicken, and dog shows were held at the Mercer County Fair in Princeton Wednesday. Winners at the rabbit show were Ava Power with Cotton Tail in first place, Alexis Schurke with Snow White second, and Coley Power with Snowball third. Katlyn Cowin with China 1 received first place for chickens. For small dogs, Avah […]
A Princeton R-5 School bus mechanic won a state inspection competition. Lonny Lovett received first place at the Missouri Association for Pupil Transportation’s America’s Best School Bus Inspector state competition Tuesday. He will represent the state of Missouri at the National America’s Best Competition, which will be in Columbus, Ohio in November. The competition allows […]
Five Grundy County 4-H Shooting Sports members participated in the Sullivan County 4-H Shootout. Jake Schmadeke placed second in the Junior Age 3D Archery as well as fourth in the Junior Age Archery National Field Archery Association 300 round. Rebecca Urich placed first in Intermediate Age Archery NFAA 300 round, and Levi Johnson placed second. […]
Hannah Persell returned home Friday from the 4-H National Shooting Sports Championships in Grand Island, Nebraska. During the months of September and October 2016, Hannah attended three weekends of state recurve archery team tryouts with other youth from across the state. The four youth with the top scores were chosen as the state team to represent […]
A Trenton resident will compete in the 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships for the fourth year in a row. Hannah Persell will compete on the Missouri recurve archery team next week. She has been in the hunting and outdoor skills, the 22 rifle, and the muzzleloading teams in past years. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and […]
Three Trenton students will compete at the National Skills USA Championships in Louisville, Kentucky next week. Metaija Johnson, Jakolbie Stotts, and Taylor Sparks received a first place gold medal at the State Skills USA Missouri Championships and earned a spot at the conference June 19th through 24th. Grand River Technical School of Chillicothe will accept […]
More than 76,000 shots rang out from the Missouri Trapshooters Association home grounds in Linn Creek during the 30th Annual Missouri FFA and High School Trap Championship with more than 760 students from all over the state participating. “Despite the rainy weather, we saw several perfect scores and many 99s,” said Missouri Department of Conservation […]
Among area results in the career development events during the Missouri FFA Convention, Hamilton won first place in the state for nursery landscape; Princeton was third in horse judging; among top teams in livestock were Milan third, North Harrison, fourth, and Green City fifth. Milan also had a team finish tenth in the FFA knowledge […]
A Princeton student, Sierra Bruse, received a rating of one for a vocal solo at the district solo and small ensemble judging during Saturday’s event at St. Joseph Central High School. Bruse qualifies for state judging April 28th in Columbia. Princeton students receiving ratings of two at the district level included Haley Johnson for a […]
The Trenton High School vocal and instrumental music departments have qualified for state judging in eleven entries following district evaluations for solos and small ensembles. The instrumental music department had six entries receive the top rating of one to advance to state evaluations. All are solos which included Jacob Davis on baritone saxophone, Ellis Gilham […]
Trenton FFA members received first place in the First Conduct of Meetings Contest in Cameron Tuesday. The Conduct of Meetings team members include Chairman Noah Burkeybile, Vice President Libby Fewins, Secretary Aaron Farrell, Treasurer Mackenzie McAtee, Reporter Grace Allen, Sentinel Mathew Slater, Advisor Quentin Lovell, and alternates Kayli Crawford and Allena Allen. Mariah Fox received […]
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 […]
FFA teams and members from area schools did well in various career development judging events Monday in Lathrop. Princeton FFA had first place teams in horses and meats; second place in dairy cattle, soils, and FFA knowledge. Trenton high school had a judging team place second in meats and fifth in the knowledge category. North […]
Chillicothe FFA students recently participated in the Area II Fall Speaking Contest in Gallatin. Jaime Albertson competed in the Missouri Farm Bureau Contest, Madelyn Warren competed in the Missouri Pork Producers Contest, Marley Anderson competed in the Missouri Institute of Cooperatives, Sarah Mason competed in the Missouri Teach Ag, Meredith Oesch competed in the Missouri […]
Several Trenton FFA members competed at the Northwest District Fall Public Speaking contest last night in Cameron. District winners, and their division, from Trenton FFA, include: Tenna Roberts- Missouri Pet Breeders, Jayden Roeder- Missouri Sheep Producers, Katerina Black- Missouri Association of Soil and Water Conservation, and Hannah Persell- Teach Ag, division. Other Trenton FFA members […]
With many bands from across the state participating, the judges were kept busy with the Trenton Marching Band Festival. Here are the results from competition. Parade Competition Class 1 3rd Place Glasgow 2nd Place Rock Port 1st Place Leeton Class 2 3rd Place Concordia 2nd Place Gallatin 1st Place Fayette […]
The Trenton High School band placed third in class in the parade and fourth in field show evaluations at the Central Methodist University band day in Fayette last Saturday. There were nine entries in both of those events in class three. Trenton was third in its class in the indoor drumline evaluations with five entries […]
The Trenton High School band was sixth among seven entries in its class in field show competition Saturday at Springfield. Blue valley Southwest of Overland Park, Kansas was first in the class, Raymore-Peculiar second, and Neosho was third. Then came Carthage, Logan-Rogersville, Trenton, and Owensville. Bands from 28 high schools were divided into four classes based […]
Green Hills Recreation Association announced results of the NFL punt, pass, and kick competition held Sunday in Trenton. First place winners at Trenton advance to sectional competition October 15th in Independence. Among the girls in different age divisions: first place was won by Josie Sparks of Kearney (age 8 and 9); Serenity Sparks also of […]
