The Trenton Municipal Utilities Water Treatment Plant will temporarily make changes to water disinfection beginning next week. The plant will start utilizing free chlorine, or a free chlorine conversion, in its water system October 1st. TMU reports the free chlorine will be used instead of chloramines as the disinfectant at the water treatment plant. This […]
A St. Joseph resident, Austin Frisbie, has waived a preliminary hearing in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court on two felony counts from June 19, assault in the first degree or an attempted assault as well as first-degree property damage. The charges, certified to the higher court, were driving while his license was […]
The Grundy County Sheriff reports one area resident was arrested Monday on multiple charges while another turned himself in. Fifty-seven-year-old Kathy Jean Stratton of Trenton has been charged with four misdemeanors: peace disturbance, first offense, first-degree trespassing, resisting or interfering with an arrest, detention, or stop and operating a vehicle on a highway without a […]
The Trenton Building and Nuisance Board Monday evening addressed ten properties of concern including three new locations. Declaration of a nuisance was approved at 200 West 7th Street, 212 West 7th Street, and 1011 Custer Street. Each will be on the agenda for next months’ meeting of the board. Following a public hearing, 1312 Gilmore […]
The Trenton City Council last night voted to authorize a 5% reduction in electric rates effective with the bills received in November, and the council ultimately voted to have an electric rate study done, but not until after the Mayor vetoed two separate motions. Last week, the utility committee advanced discussion on having a three-month […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Department reports two Trenton men have been arrested and charged on drug allegations. Twenty-year-old Bryce Raylan Farmer was arrested Wednesday on four felony counts of delivery of 35 grams or less of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoid as well as one felony count of delivery of a controlled substance except for 35 […]
Certified Child Passenger Safety technicians will assist parents and caregivers on proper car seat installation and usage at a car seat check in Trenton next week. Parents and caregivers can bring their vehicle and car seat they would like checked or installed to the free event at the Grundy County Health Department the afternoon of […]
The Chillicothe FFA Chapter recently attended the area trap shoot held at the Trenton Trap Range. The first place overall team Chillicothe with the Chillicothe FFA Chapter having 6 teams/26 individuals shoot at the event with the following results. Ethan Cooper A-42, Drake Bradley A-38, Clayton Walker A-43, Mack Anderson A-44, Garrett Cramer A-47, Trace […]
Information was shared this week with the Utility Committee on water and sewer line projects that are in the design process. There are four street locations in Trenton with a total cost collectively more than $1,000,000. Each is projected to be done before street and state highway work is done to avoid tearing up a […]
Missouri Life magazine announces that Big BAM (Bicycle Across Missouri) will be on the Katy trail for the first time from October 7 through October 12 on Missouri’s Katy Trail. Big BAM has completed four different road cycling events around the state in the past. Big BAM will be back on the road next June […]
The Spickard R-2 Board of Education approved the Professional Development Plan for 2018-2019 at its meeting Monday evening with $4,850 in expenditures. A field trip to Papa Charlie’s Pumpkin Patch for October 23rd was also approved. The board heard the Annual Secretary of the Board Report. Four board members will attend the Missouri School Boards […]
A lengthy discussion last night on electric rates evolved into a request to establish a minimum of three months operating reserves and a recommendation to ask for a rate study. The two-hour utility committee was attended by its three members plus the other five city councilmen; mayor, city administrator/utility director, city clerk, and four department […]
Members of the administrative committee will leave it up to the city council to decide on how to dispose of an obsolete fire truck. The fire truck is a 1984 L-T-I 100-foot aerial platform on twin rear axles and with a 49-foot overall length. The truck was taken out of service by the city because […]
Sunday evening Chillicothe Police investigated a disturbance in the 300 block of Samuel Street. Officers arrested Agnes Adeline Youngs who faces a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree domestic assault. Following Monday’s arraignment in the Associate Division, the case was continued to September 26th. Youngs was held at the Daviess-DeKalb County Regional Jail in Pattonsburg. Bond was […]
Authorities report four individuals were arrested on various charges, two of them brothers, over the weekend in Grundy County. Twenty-two-year-old Justin Lee Kleihauer of Trenton faces four felony counts and two misdemeanor counts. His bonds total $43,000 cash with an appearance September 25th in the Associate Division of Grundy County circuit court. Justin Kleihauer is […]
(Missourinet) – Missouri’s top candidates running for state auditor have squared off in a debate-style forum and are clashing over their records. Todd Sauter reports from the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights. Democratic incumbent Nicole Galloway wasted no time going after Republican challenger Saundra McDowell. “She’s so financially compromised, she might be willing […]
(Missourinet) – A longtime state lawmaker who serves on a Missouri legislative committee examining Missouri Department of Agriculture funding levels says some department divisions need fee increases, while others don’t. Martinsburg GOP State Representative Jay Houghton serves on the Joint Committee on Review of the Plant Industries Division. MDA officials have provided the […]
There were 27 motorcycles and 37 riders from several communities that participated in the poker run Saturday sponsored by the Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce. The 160-mile ride included stops in Trenton, Altamont, Albany, and Gilman City. The event was a fundraiser for the Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce’s general fund with an entry fee of […]
Four Grundy Electric Cooperative linemen left for Santee Electric Cooperative in Kingstree, South Carolina Friday morning to help with power restoration efforts after Hurricane Florence. Grundy Electric reports Mace Ormsy, Brent McClintick, Rick Gamble, and Mason Larson join 162 Missouri cooperative line workers from 33 of the state’s electric cooperatives. The cooperative notes Missouri is […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of four individuals on various unrelated charges. Forty-four-year-old Miriah Butler of Trenton was arrested Thursday on failure to obey judge’s order on felony charges of third-degree domestic assault—third or subsequent offense and distribution, delivery, manufacture, or production or attempt to possess with intent to distribute, deliver, manufacture, […]
