While it was a very light voter turnout in Grundy County for the election Tuesday, the race for the Grundy County Nursing Home District Board turned out to be very close. Three incumbents will return to the Trenton City Council. Three candidates filed for the two open seats on the nursing home district board. The […]
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Indoor/Outdoor Farmers Market set to begin next month in Marceline
The Indoor/Outdoor Farmers Market and Small Business Incubator will begin at the Walsworth Community Center in Marceline next month. The event will be held every Tuesday from 4 o’clock in the afternoon to 8 o’clock at night starting April 10 with setup starting at 3 o’clock each Tuesday. No reservations are necessary. The cost is […]
Road work in Linn County near Brookfield may cause delays
A shoulder improvement project in Linn County is scheduled to begin the week of April 9. Contractor crews from Capital Paving and Construction, LLC, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, will improve the shoulders, replace guardrail, and repave the shoulders of the ramps at the Route 5/Route U interchange near Marceline. The shoulder and […]
Marceline business owner recognized
State Representatives Rusty Black of Chillicothe and Tim Remole of Excello honored a longtime Marceline business owner. Albert Yocom of Yocom Jewelry was honored for his service to his company and his community. He retired after nearly 39-years of work in the jewelry industry. Yocom has served as a past president of the Marceline Chamber […]
Races for office shaping up in upcoming August primary
Candidate filings began Tuesday for multi-county districts in this area. A 7th district state representative race is shaping up between Republican Rusty Black of Chillicothe and Democrat Dennis VanDyke of Marceline. Both have to be nominated by their parties in the August primary election. After the first day of filings, Republican Danny Busick of Newtown […]
Day one of candidates filing for office keeps courthouses busy
More district-level candidates have filed for the August Primary election. Henry Robert Martin of Kansas City and Winston Apple of Independence have filed as Democrats for Sixth District U. S. Representative. Republican Sam Graves of Tarkio filed for re-election for the Representative position. Republican Dan Hegeman of Cosby filed for reelection for 12th District State […]
Annual Art Teachers Show set for April 2 in Marceline
The Seventh Annual Art Teachers Show will be at the North Missouri Art Gallery in Marceline until April 2nd. North Central and Northeast area art teachers’ work will be on display, and many pieces will be for sale. The public can meet the artists and enjoy refreshments during a reception Saturday afternoon from 1 to […]
Marceline woman hurt in crash east of Brookfield
The Highway Patrol reports a Marceline woman sustained moderate injuries in a one-vehicle accident one mile east of Brookfield Tuesday morning. Thirty-five-year-old Terisa Buckner drove west on U. S. 36 when her car began to slide on the ice-covered road. Then the car ran off the right side of the road and struck a tree, […]
Three injured in crash on Highway 11 that demolishes vehicles
Three people were injured, two of them from Marceline, in an accident Monday afternoon on Highway 11 in Chariton County with all three taken by ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital. The highway patrol reports a pickup driven by 88-year-old Robert Bolzendahl of Triplett was northbound when it went out of control on the icy highway, […]
Marceline man swerves to miss dear in road, demolishes SUV
A Marceline resident was hurt when the sports utility vehicle he was driving hit a culvert, embankment and a tree just west of Marceline. 26-year-old Benjamin Lile of Marceline sought treatment on this own for minor injuries. The accident happened early Saturday nearly one mile west of Marceline on Route JJ when Lile swerved the […]
6 injured in crash at intersection south of Bucklin
The Highway Patrol reports injuries ranged from minor to moderate for six people injured Tuesday evening when two vehicles collided at a Linn County intersection. All were taken by ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital. The accident at 6:15 in the evening occurred at the junction of Highway 36 and Missouri Highway 129 one mile south of Bucklin. Involved […]
Dennis Van Dyke of Marceline discusses why he decided to run for State Representative
Dennis Van Dyke of Marceline recently announced his plans to run on the Democratic ticket for Seventh District State Representative next year. Van Dyke stopped by the KTTN studios to introduce himself, and while here, we sat down with him and asked him why he decided to run for State Representative, what his focus would be if […]
Dennis Van Dyke to file for Seventh District State Representative
A Marceline man has announced plans to file for Seventh District State Representative on the Democratic ticket for the Primary Election August 7th, 2018. Dennis Van Dyke graduated from the University of Missouri in 1976 with an Agricultural Mechanization degree with an emphasis on Ag Economics. He worked as an Ag Loan Representative at AmeriBank […]
Visitation set for 17-year-old Maysell Crossland
Arrangements have been set for a Marceline teenager who died Friday from injuries sustained in a traffic accident in Linn County. 17-year-old Maysell E. Crossland was a senior at Marceline high school and is survived by her parents, Richard and Florence Crossland and brother Mason, of the home in Marceline. Visitation will be held from 4 […]
Marceline man life-flighted after crash in Macon County
A Marceline man was injured Thursday afternoon in rural Macon County when the truck he was driving began rolling backward, went off a lettered highway, struck a stop sign and overturned down an embankment coming to a stop on its passenger side. 63-year-old Jerry Newman of Marceline received moderate injuries and was flown by medical […]
Woman life-flighted after crash near Marceline
A traffic accident two miles north of Marceline injured two Illinois residents while a third from Illinois was not hurt. The accident happened about 5:25 pm Sunday on U.S. Highway 36 about a quarter mile east of the Highway 5 junction as a car driven by 43-year-old Lucia Trujillo-Morales was eastbound, passing another vehicle when […]
Marceline girl rides bicycle into path of police vehicle
A Marceline girl, riding a bicycle, was injured Tuesday night in her hometown when she apparently rode into the path of a moving police car. The highway patrol reports 15-year-old Victoria Henandez sustained moderate injuries and was taken by ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital. The accident happened before 8 pm at Mulberry Street and Ritchie Avenue […]
Marceline man crashes in attempt to avoid deer in roadway
A Marceline resident, 21-year-old Zachary Yarnell, was injured late last night when his vehicle swerved to avoid a deer but went off Highway 11 and struck a tree. Yarnell was taken by ambulance to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with minor injuries. He was wearing a seat belt in an accident just before midnight Tuesday […]
Brookfield man ejected from ATV in Sunday crash
A Brookfield man was injured when he was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle Sunday. The accident happened on private property two miles north of Marceline causing 24-year-old Joshua Molloy moderate injuries. He was taken by private vehicle to the Samaritan Hospital. The highway patrol reports the ATV was northbound, traveling up a hill, when the […]
Two dead, three injured in crash north of Marceline
The Highway Patrol reports two individuals died and three three others sustained serious injuries as the result of a three-vehicle accident half a mile north of Marceline Friday morning. A car driven by forty-seven-year-old Shauna Gauthier of Bucklin crested a hill on southbound Missouri 5 when she crossed the center line, struck a vehicle driven […]