The Missouri Department of Agriculture’s MORE strategic vision has always lived and breathed agriculture and rural Missouri. Today, the Department announced 16 individual initiatives that will take the MORE vision and put it into action. The Department will be targeting workforce development, youth in agriculture, food insecurity, agriculture business, broadband availability, emergency response, the Missouri […]
Next week is Severe Weather Awareness Week and National Weather Service Meteorologist Ryan Cutter says that the purpose of the week is to encourage the public to think about the severe weather that could occur in the area, including thunderstorms, flooding, hail, and tornadoes, and what they should do in a severe weather event. Grundy […]
Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox credits the departments’ law enforcement K-9 with running after a prisoner who fled on foot while at the sheriff’s office in Chillicothe, but stopped once he saw the dog in action. 20-year-old Jeremiah Joel Bailiff of St. Louis was being finger-printed when the alleged escape from custody occurred. Bailiff had been arrested following […]
The Trenton City Council last night took votes on three ordinances, passing one of them on a split vote to enact a leash law. The council heard presentations from four citizens on topics like downtown Christmas lights; a property lien the city holds following demolition of a house; cable television reception in the lake Trenton area; […]
Additional charges have been filed in Grundy County against 37-year-old Bobby Morgans the second of Trenton who was arrested following the theft of a Grundy County ambulance on Tuesday, February 20th. Authorities have accused Morgans of two counts of second-degree burglary and one count of tampering with a motor vehicle last Tuesday. Documents were filed […]
A committee is recommending that the Trenton city attorney prepare a dog leash ordinance. The administrative committee met last night to discuss what can be done regarding dogs running at large. City Administrator Ron Urton explained that a “leash law” would require dogs – not on their owners’ private property – to be on a […]
A Funeral service for 27-year-old Jeffrey Carl Bowman of Chillicothe will be Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock at the Calvary Baptist Church of Chillicothe with burial in the Plainview Cemetery of Chula. A scheduled family visitation will be Tuesday night from 6 o’clock until 8 o’clock at the Lindley Funeral Home of Chillicothe. Survivors of […]
Emergency bridge work will close Route 139 daily approximately three miles north of Meadville. The bridge over Lewis Creek will be closed between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily, Tuesday, July 11 through Friday, July 21, but will open each evening and on the weekend. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation will […]
A single vehicle accident Tuesday, north of Jamesport, has claimed the lives of four young adults from Trenton, three of them are siblings. The highway patrol listed the accident location as one half mile west of the Daviess – Grundy County line on Highway 190. The report notes none of the occupants was using a […]
Grundy County Emergency Management will hold Emergency Operations Center Exercise and Training the morning of March 11th. Training will begin at 8 o’clock, the exercise will begin around 10 o’clock, and an after-action discussion will be around 11:30. Community Emergency Response Team members and anyone interested in Emergency Operations Center functions is encouraged to attend. […]
A Resident of Galt, Cynthia Lynn Gott, died late Saturday night at the University of Kansas medical center in Kansas City. She was 55 years old, had operated the Galt Cafe since 1995 and was an EMT with the Galt Fire Protection District. Surviving relatives include her father Bob Gott of Galt; brothers Ben and […]
On Sunday morning, Grundy County Emergency Medical Services was advised of an older male stuck in the mud on the west bank on the south side of the Charlie Dye bridge. Grundy County Rural Rescue also responded, then a request was made to bring rope rescue equipment. This is when Trenton Firefighters responded. On scene, […]
The highway patrol described injuries as minor for a Laredo woman involved in a traffic accident last night at the Thompson River bridge half a mile west of Trenton. The patrol reports 70-year-old Jackie Owens was taken by ambulance to Wright Memorial Hospital. The report noted that just past 8:30 Wednesday evening, the eastbound car […]
Progress is being reported this morning in getting water to customers of Daviess County Public Water Supply District One headquartered at Pattonsburg. A precautionary boil advisory for drinking and cooking water goes until further notice. The water district had reported an outage in the southern part of its district south of the Grand River. It’s […]
With the next school year less than two months away, plans are being made for volunteers to assist with an “active shooter” scenario to be held August 19th at North Central Missouri College in Trenton. Grundy County Emergency Management is seeking individuals who would be interested in participating as players/actors for the exercise. Those interested in […]
Some people cannot seem to grasp the concept of how law enforcement works. Authorities turn their emergency lights on, you stop. That wasn’t the case in Chillicothe this Thursday afternoon. At approximately 4 pm today, Livingston County deputies were attempting to serve a warrant in the 1500 block of Webster Street. It was then that […]
Advance plans have been announced for a fund raising softball tournament in Trenton on Saturday August 20th. It’s the third annual North Missouri Emergency Service charity softball tournament. Games are to be played at the Griffin ball field in Trenton. There’s an August 15th registration deadline. The cost is 150 dollars per team, with checks […]
The Fire Fighters Association of Missouri has named The Chillicothe Fire Department as “Department Of The Year” for 2016. The FFAM serves 7, 533 members and 367 fire departments. The award was presented to the department at the FFAM 62 annual convention held at Tan Tara resort. The Chillicothe Fire Department is a progressive Department with […]
