The Galt Community Fair continues today with 4-H exhibits and quilts, crafts, flower arrangements, and garden entries must be entered for judging by 10 o’clock this morning. The lunch room with a full menu will open at 11 o’clock and a fire department demonstration will be at 6 o’clock this evening. There will also be […]
Sunnyview Foundation has announced the employee of the month from resident and family nominations. The employee of the month for July is Julie Helton who has been an employee with Sunnyview since 2015 and works as an Activity Associate. Julie received an employee of the month parking spot and a $25.00 check from the foundation. […]
While the whereabouts of 19-year-old Tanner Ward of Trenton remains a mystery, local authorities have now issued a warrant for his arrest. Online court information shows a probation violation report was filed Tuesday by the Missouri Probation and Parole. The information also shows a capias warrant was issued July 6 at the request of the […]
Several topics are on the agenda for the next meeting of Families and Friends of the Developmentally Disabled in Grundy County. The meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 17th at 6:30 pm at the Grundy County Courthouse. Topics include the mental health trust fund contract, a transportation report, educational day; reports on the Gifted disability team, the […]
The Princeton R-5 Board of Education approved an increase in substitute pay at its meeting Monday evening. Substitute pay for the 2017-2018 school year will increase by $5 per day to $80 per day and long-term substitute pay will be $90 per day. Long-term is considered more than 10 consecutive days. Substitute bus drivers will […]
The Spickard City Council approved ownership for an abandoned road as well as getting a mower and a door at its meeting Monday evening. The city council approved Charles Holtzclaw’s request to own the abandoned road next to his property on Fifth Street between Washington and Jefferson. Mayor Jesse Richmond and City Clerk Mary Exley […]
A change of venue from Harrison County to Grundy County was granted for an Eagleville man Tuesday. Michael John Welling’s bond is set at $25,000 cash or corporate surety with special conditions and he is scheduled to appear in Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court July 13. Welling was originally charged with the felony […]
Netflix is releasing a lot of big movies in July including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Titanic, Disney‘s The Mighty Ducks, Lion, Free Willy and Rogue One: A Star Wars Movie. Also coming to Netflix in July, original series likeFriends from College starring Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, nd Fred Savage will premiere on July 14, plus original […]
Grundy County’s July unemployment rate climbed to five and a half percent. That’s up from a rate of four point six percent noted in June. The latest rate which is nearly one percentage point higher represents 267 persons on unemployment out of a civilian labor the state lists as 4865. Rates among area counties for July range […]
“Wet” and “wetter.” Those words set the theme of an Aug. 2 teleconference for University of Missouri Extension agronomists. Heavy rains on the first two days of August followed what may have been the ninth-wettest July since 1895. Preliminary state average rainfall was 6.5 inches, said Pat Guinan, MU Extension climatologist. He reported heavy rains […]
Edward Austin Cosgrove, Jr., age 53, a resident of Utica, Missouri, passed away on Sunday, July 24, 2016, in Utica, Missouri. Edward was born the son of Edward Austin and Delaine Marie (Curtis) Cosgrove, on February 2, 1963, in Chillicothe, Missouri. He was a graduate of Lockport High School, Lockport, Illinois. Edward worked as a […]
Elizabeth Nicole Lafolette, 25, of Trenton, Mo. and her daughter, Shannon Therese Jeannoutot-Lafolette, 10 months, passed away on Saturday, July 16, 2016, in Trenton MO. Memorial contributions may be made to Nicholas Jeannoutot to assist with the funeral expenses and mailed to or left at Heritage Funeral Home 3141N. Washington, Chillicothe MO. 64601. On-line condolences may […]
The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Adam Baker Thursday in the shooting death of his 26-year-old wife Holly Baker in a trial that began Monday, July 11. The Cameron man was convicted of Second Degree Murder and armed criminal action in a trial that lasted just four days in the death of his […]
Joining in the July chorus of cicadas, crickets, and frogs this summer are katydids. The Missouri Department of Conservation encourages people to discover nature by learning more about Missouri’s loudest insect. Katydids are a type of grasshopper. Their bodies have long slender legs, large, veined wings and antennae that are twice as long as most […]
The Missouri Department of Agriculture and University of Missouri Extension will offer a series of listening sessions in July that will address current challenges in the farm economy. Sessions will take place in seven locations across the state. “Life as a farmer is never boring, that we know for certain,” Director of Agriculture Richard Fordyce […]
The Christian Motorcycle Association arranged for the Independence Day program and music this coming Monday, July 4. Activities begin at 5 o’clock Monday at C-F Russell Stadium where there will be various recognition given and music by two groups. The country gospel performance by Greg and Suzie York will performabout 5 o’clock. Soca Jukebox, at 7 o’clock, […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation encourages people to discover nature this summer by learning more about cicadas. There are two types of cicadas, annual and periodical. As their names suggest, annual cicadas make an appearance every summer in July, whereas periodical cicadas emerge in 13 and 17-year cycles in late May. Annual cicadas have dark […]
Missouri State Highway Patrol officers of Troop B, Macon, will be participating in Operation C.A.R.E. during the 2016 July Fourth holiday weekend. Operation C.A.R.E. (Combined Accident Reduction Effort) is a national traffic enforcement program aimed at making holiday weekends safer. During this enforcement operation, all available troopers will be assigned to patrol Missouri highways, not […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol, sometime during the month of July, will conduct a DWI Sobriety Checkpoint in Adair County, with additional DWI saturations coming to Adair, Chariton, Monroe, Ralls, and Randolph Counties. The checkpoint will be conducted by the Highway Patrol, with cooperation from area law enforcement agencies. The Patrol, as always, is asking […]
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 […]
