Green Hills Animal Shelter in Trenton will hold a fundraiser Saturday, August 14, which involves a meal, snow cones, and a bounce house. The animal shelter on East 10th Street will offer a pulled pork sandwich and baked beans for $7.00. Patrons also can purchase pulled pork at $5.00 per pound and beans at $4.00 […]
The Trenton City Council on Monday evening approved a $4.00 increase in the monthly cost for having an electric meter. The increased funds are designed to pay off a loan the city has due to additional energy costs incurred during the extreme cold spell in February. The council also voted to reduce by three dollars […]
This article is a commentary. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of KTTN/KGOZ Radio, the staff, management or webmaster. (Missouri Independent) – It seems that getting control of the coronavirus has brought front and center the question: When should an individual’s right […]
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced he will introduce 15 amendments to the Democrats’ newly-proposed $3.5 trillion budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2022. Senator Hawley’s amendments would allow for the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, restrict federal funding for K-12 schools that refuse to fully reopen, fight back against critical race theory, and protect the […]
Pam Stenger keeps memories of her grandmother’s flower garden alive by offering floral bouquets through a Community Supported Agriculture subscription service. As a child, Stenger loved walking to her grandmother’s house and garden and seeing the 50-60 varieties of daffodils lining the gravel road. “She shared her love of flowers with me and showed me […]
(Missouri Independent) – Prizes awarded through a vaccine incentive program offered by local public health departments in Missouri may get boosted to $100-per-person under a new federal allowance. After previously rejecting Missouri’s proposal to exceed a $25 limit on prizes paid for with federal funding to incentivize immunizations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently […]
(Missouri Independent) – Many of the staff and residents in Shunda Whitfield’s St. Louis County nursing home were sick before they even realized what was going on. It was April 2020, and masks weren’t yet standard practice. Little was known about COVID before it swept through nursing homes, and as a certified nursing assistant, Whitfield […]
The City of Trenton is scheduled to receive a little more than $1 million through American Recovery Act funding. That according to City Administrator and Utility Director Ron Urton, who says the city is working with the state to get the funding. Urton adds that Congress set aside money due to COVID-19 issues […]
The Missouri Department of Agriculture announced the availability of Food Insecure Urban Agriculture Matching Grant funds of up to $50,000 per project. Applications for the grant funds must benefit residents affected by food insecurity in urbanized areas and are due by Sept. 30, 2021. Projects must be complete and ready for verification by April 1, […]
The Chillicothe City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an ordinance setting the property tax rates for the city. The hearing will be during the council’s meeting at the Chillicothe Municipal Utilities meeting room on August 9, 2021, at 5:30 pm. The proposed tax levy for all property real, personal, and mixed is […]
We’ll learn new details Friday in Jefferson City about how Missouri will proceed with voter-approved Medicaid expansion. The Missouri Supreme Court’s 14-page ruling includes a conclusion, which requires Friday’s hearing in Cole County Circuit Court. “For the reasons set forth above, the circuit court’s judgment is affirmed only insofar as it overruled the […]
Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced the State of Missouri has received $1,342,648,065.40 in funds allocated to the State by the American Rescue Plan. Missouri’s full allocation is $2,685,296,130.80. Under the American Rescue Plan, all Missouri counties, regardless of population and metropolitan cities with a population of over 50,000, are eligible to receive their allocated […]
The Families and Friends of the Developmentally Disabled in Grundy County will hold a tax levy hearing at its meeting next week. The group will meet in the conference room on the first floor of the Grundy County Courthouse in Trenton on August 9, 2021, at 6:30 in the evening. The proposed tax rate for FFDD […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education will hold a tax rate hearing before its regular meeting next week. The hearing will be at the district office on August 10, 2021, at 5:25 in the evening. The proposed tax levy for the current tax year is $4.4287 per $100 of assessed valuation. That is 1.52 cents […]
Within the city limits of Trenton are three bridges that span the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. Two of the bridges are owned by the city of Trenton, the 22nd Street Bridge and the recently completed new 17th Street Bridge. The other bridge is on East 9th Street, also known as Highway 6, and it’s owned […]
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s Securities Division issued a final cease and desist order against Monarch Capital Investment Fund, LLC, and top executive Timothy Patrick Peabody after several investors in Missouri were defrauded. Missouri Commissioner of Securities David Minnick found that between April 2015 and October 2016, Peabody, “engaged in fraudulent or deceitful acts and […]
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft will visit area libraries on August 5. Ashcroft’s schedule includes the Brookfield Public Library at 10 a.m., the Livingston County Library of Chillicothe at 11:15, followed by the Lillian DesMarias Youth Library of Chillicothe, and the Carrollton Public Library at 1:15 in the afternoon. Missouri Secretary of State’s Office Communications […]
One of the funding sources for the new 17th Street Bridge in Trenton was the Missouri Department of Economic Development which issued what is called a “Community Development Block Grant.” The grant to the city of Trenton was $500,000, which is part of the $3,400,000 bridge project. A stipulation for the grant is the state-required […]
The Grundy County Commission made an appointment to the Grundy County Health Department Board and opened bids for the Streambank Stabilization project this (Tuesday) morning. Cari Blackburn was appointed to the health department board to replace Troy Crawford, who resigned after he moved from the area. Three bids were opened for the Streambank Stabilization project […]
The new 17th Street Bridge in Trenton was completed, and the detour was removed three weeks ago. City Administrator Ron Urton has compiled a list of expenses related to the bridge project, which collectively cost $3,420,000. Urton was a guest Monday morning on KTTN’S Open Line and discussed the total cost of the bridge: […]
