Two Kirksville residents were hurt on Thursday morning in northeastern Linn County when a car overturned off Highway 11, north of New Boston. A passenger, 30-year old Chantelle Watson, was flown by medical helicopter to University Hospital in Columbia, with what the Highway Patrol described as moderate injuries. The driver, 51-year old Robert Pettibone, was […]
Over 770 state FFA degrees will be presented during ceremonies Friday night at the 88th annual Missouri FFA convention in Columbia. This is the highest individual honor an FFA member can receive from the state association. Several of the recipients are from this immediate area of north central Missouri (including): Chillicothe has 15 state farmers: […]
A Marceline resident was hurt when a tractor-trailer unit hit a sport utility vehicle on Highway 5 north of Marceline. The Highway Patrol said 38-year old Shaun Woodard of Marceline was taken to Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield with moderate injuries. Woodard was a passenger in the SUV driven by 34-year old Amanda Woodard of […]
Three people were hurt when a car turned into the path of a tractor-trailer unit on U.S. Highway 36 near Marceline. The truck driver, 73-year-old Robert Clary of Ewing, and two passengers in the car, 45-year-old Helen Guerrero and 56-year-old Ronnie Miles, both of Bucklin, were taken to Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield with Highway […]
North Central Missouri College’s Ketcham Community Center will host the 25th Annual Lions District 26-M4 All-Star games on June 3rd and 4th. Specifics on the games will be announced at a later date, but, with the completion of Class 1, 2, and 3 seasons, rosters for the games (with four girls and four boys teams) […]
Three members each of the district champion Mercer Cardinals have been named to the 10-member all-district team for Class 1, District 12. For the Lady Cardinals, the junior trio of Nicole Kost, Bailey Owens, and Lindsay Wyatt were named all-district, joined by the Grundy R-5 duo of Matana Munday and Abby Wells, a pair from […]
The Tri-County Conference has announced first, second, and third team All-Conference basketball honorees, in addition to the “Coach of the Year” awards. The MVP’s of the northeast Missouri conference are Linn County High School senior Megan Schriner, while two boys share the award for 2015-2016, in Meadville junior Ryan Young and Novinger senior Collin Roberts. […]
The state-ranked basketball teams from Mercer will travel to Kirksville on Tuesday night, playing in the Class 1 sectional round of 16, looking to advance to Saturday night’s state quarterfinals at Salisbury High School. On Friday night, in doubleheader action heard on KTTN FM 92.3, Mercer won the District 12 championships with a pair of […]
The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work in the Northwest Missouri region planned for the week of Feb. 29 – March 6 from the Missouri Department of Transportation. In addition to the work listed below, there may be pothole patching, brush cutting, guardrail repairs and other road work conducted throughout […]
