On Wednesday, May 15th, the Chillicothe Area Chamber of Commerce will welcome Director Anna Hui of the Missouri Department of Labor & Industrial Relations as their featured speaker for their monthly luncheon series. Director Hui will speak on a variety of topics related to ongoing workforce trends and future plans within our state in addition […]
The Grundy County Health Department of Trenton will offer Hepatitis C virus antibody testing to observe Hepatitis Awareness Month in May. Rapid Hepatitis C testing will be done May 17th at a cost of $20.00 The health department reports that Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver, and most individuals infected develop a chronic […]
It’ll be a few more days before Grundy County’s license fee office opens for business at its new location in Trenton. The Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce has operated the license office for more than three decades and Chamber President Debbie Carman reports the office will open on April 22, 2019. The new […]
New research from the Missouri Hospital Association identifies the nationwide economic cost of the opioid crisis at $685 billion in 2017, or 3.5 percent of GDP, with overdose deaths accounting for 93 percent of the cost. Missouri’s toll is 20th highest among the states, with a total burden of just more than $14 billion. Throughout […]
Bacon is popular, but living near a hog farm is not. Bacon isn’t possible without hogs, so if we want bacon, we’re going to have to raise pigs. Missouri Senate Bill 391 is opposed by people who either don’t like bacon or don’t realize how it’s made. The bill would require that county regulation aimed […]
The Trenton Kiwanis Club will host its first Trivia Night in April to fund community service activities in the area. Teams of six to eight members at least 18 years old can participate in the event billed as a “Stroll Through the Decades” at the Black Silo Winery of Trenton April 6th. Doors will open […]
As officials from the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region VII office continue monitoring the development of an arctic outbreak that could bring recording-setting cold temperatures to several cities throughout the Midwest, residents are encouraged to act now, preparing both their home and families for whatever may arise. “We are […]
Do the math on temperatures and rainfall for all of 2018. On average, you get “near normal,” says Pat Guinan, University of Missouri Extension climatologist. “Weather was anything but that,” Guinan adds. Record-setting numbers hide in an average. For starters, look at the “non-spring” of 2018. April was the second coldest on record going back […]
The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to roll back Obama-era rules which placed federal regulations on creek beds and ponds that aren’t directly connected to larger bodies of water. Eric Bohl (Bowl) with the Missouri Farm Bureau says the rules are a legal overreach because creek beds and ponds aren’t navigable. Eric Bohl […]
People languishing in federal prison for decades on nonviolent drug convictions may get a new chance at justice if the U.S. Senate finds the political will to pass sentencing reform in the final weeks of the lame-duck session. Groups on both left and right on the political spectrum support the First Step Act, a series of […]
Missouri Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill announced that their legislation to bring the historic 1920’s riverboat Delta Queen back to the Mississippi River was signed into law. The bill reinstates a decades-long exemption to allow the boat to operate from its new homeport of Kimmswick, in Jefferson County – creating jobs and strengthening economic […]
Longtime Trenton educator and author Thomas Virgil Brown died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Trenton of natural causes. He was 94. Mr. Brown, Tom to his family and many friends, was born Aug. 9, 1924, on his parents’ farmstead just north of Melbourne in Harrison County, the son of Thomas Armfield Brown, a state legislator, […]
