The month of February is national American Heart Month and Wright Memorial Hospital’s Senior Life Solutions program is working to raise awareness of the connection between heart health and emotional health. In February of 1964, a national campaign began declaring February as American Heart Month in an effort to help bring awareness to the number […]
Hy-Vee announces the expansion of its discount medications list to assist customers with lowering healthcare costs. The new medication list went into effect February 1st and is available to all patients with no enrollment fees. The new list includes an increased number of cholesterol, diabetes, gastrointestinal, mental health, women’s health and men’s health medications offered at […]
The 24-hour Help-Me-Hotline is serving as a resource for Missourians impacted by the federal government shutdown. Penny Adams with the AFL-CIO Community Services Agency in northwest Missouri’s St. Joseph says furloughed workers in need of social services and questions about the availability of public benefits can call. Penny Adams with the AFL-CIO Community […]
A series of parenting classes are to be held in Trenton during February and March. The six classes, which are free, will be held at the North Central Missouri Mental Health Center at the corner of 28th street and Oklahoma Avenue. Parenting classes are on Tuesdays February 5th through March 11th from 12:30 to 2:30. Parenting classes […]
House Speaker Elijah Haahr announced today the House Committee chairmanships and his selections for Republican membership on House committees for the 100th General Assembly. “One of the greatest qualities of the Republican Caucus is the diverse experiences and talents this group of individuals brings to our legislative process,” said Speaker Haahr, R-Springfield. “We have worked […]
The state Department of Health says 951 Missourians died from a prescription drug overdose in 2017. St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell has unveiled a plan for his region that partners with the community and expands diversion programs for nonviolent offenders with addiction and mental health issues. The state Department of Health says […]
Longtime Trenton educator and author Thomas Virgil Brown died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Trenton of natural causes. He was 94. Mr. Brown, Tom to his family and many friends, was born Aug. 9, 1924, on his parents’ farmstead just north of Melbourne in Harrison County, the son of Thomas Armfield Brown, a state legislator, […]
The North Central Missouri Mental Health Center of Chillicothe will hold free parenting classes in December and January. The classes will be held at the Mental Health Center at 401 Youssef Drive in Chillicothe Mondays from 10 o’clock to noon December 3rd through January 21st. There will be no classes held December 17th or 24th. […]
Carroll County Memorial Hospital of Carrollton has a new director for its Senior Life Solutions program. Sheila Rider will be responsible for directing and coordinating activities of program staff to ensure quality patient care and providing community education to create awareness of the program. Senior Life Solutions is an outpatient group therapy program designed to […]
The judge saw a busy docket on Thursday in Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court. Trenton resident Tommy Joe Graham pleaded guilty to manufacture of a controlled substance within two thousand feet or a school or college. Graham was sentenced to six years with the Missouri department of corrections. Execution of the prison sentence […]
Poverty fighting groups in Missouri are asking federal leaders to protect those who protect our country. Congress is working on the Farm Bill, which includes funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Jeanette Oxford, executive director of the advocacy group Empower Missouri, explains more than 37,000 veterans in the state rely on the […]
In a forum held at the campus of North Central Missouri College of Trenton Monday, the two candidates for the Seventh District State Representative in next month’s General Election shared their priorities and goals for entering into 2019. Incumbent Republican Rusty Black of Chillicothe explained his goals had not changed much since he was elected […]
West-central Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler says there are still issues standing in the way of the farm bill reaching committee agreement. Hartzler, a Republican serving as a farm bill conference committee member, says the primary disagreement is the food stamp benefit work requirements favored by House Republicans. The Farm Bill has expired, however, […]
The North Central Missouri Mental Health Center of Trenton will begin a series of free parenting classes next week. The classes will be at the Mental Health Center Office Tuesday afternoons from 1 to 3 o’clock from October 16th through November 27th, however, no class is scheduled for November 20th. Class topics include Parenting 101 […]
(Missourinet) – Missouri lawmakers are heading back to work today for a special session requested by Governor Mike Parson. The special session will coincide with the annual veto session that takes place on the first Wednesday after the second Monday in September. The veto session is held for the legislature to consider action on […]
Crossroads Correctional Center has begun the next stage of the step-down process from the current modified lockdown to normal activity. On Aug. 9, the facility began holding limited visits for offenders four days a week, Thursday through Sunday, with three shifts per day. So far, more than 200 offenders have seen visitors. On Aug. 25, additional cleaning supplies were allocated […]
A series of free parenting classes will start at the North Central Missouri Mental Health Center of Trenton next week. Classes will meet on Tuesday afternoons from 1 to 3 o’clock September 4th through October 9th. Topics will include parenting 101 and building relationships, infants and toddlers, handling misbehavior and focusing on children ages five […]
Governor Parson has signed into law a new state budget which includes 300,000-dollars in school safety funding to Missouri’s K through 12 public districts. Melissa Randol with the Missouri School Boards’ Association says addressing school safety involves a multi-faceted approach. The funding could be used to address threats involving weapons and digital platforms, […]
A Rothville woman charged with felony first-degree murder in the death of her two-month-old daughter was granted an own recognizance bond in Chariton County Division Two Circuit Court Thursday. Online court information shows 19-year-old Sarah Linebaugh was granted the own recognizance bond with the condition that she is to seek placement in a mental health/medical […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education has a new member as the board filled a vacant seat. The board reviewed applications at a meeting Tuesday evening from George Moore and Marcie Cutsinger to fill the vacant position left following previous member Brooke McAtee’s resignation. The board then interviewed each applicant individually while the other stepped […]
