The Grundy County Rural Fire Protection District responded to a grass fire northeast of Trenton Monday night. The fire department reports high winds and dry surface fuels made the fire in a field at Route NN and Northeast 45th Street difficult to control. Galt Fire Protection District provided assistance and brush trucks from both fire […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Jamesport man sustained minor injuries when his sports utility vehicle overturned five miles west of Trenton Tuesday morning. Thirty-two-year-old Jared Perkins traveled east on Missouri 6 when the vehicle ran off the south side of the road and struck a guardrail before overturning. The SUV came to rest on its […]
Only a few months after launching the Missouri Economic Dashboard, State Treasurer Eric Schmitt is already garnering national recognition for his work to make economic data more easily accessible to the public. Truth in Accounting, a national watchdog group that advocates for state government transparency, supports this effort. “The Missouri Economic Dashboard is a helpful […]
The Spickard Fire Protection District Monday night responded to a flue fire at a home about one mile east of Spickard. Training Officer for the department, Jesse Richmond, reported there was no damage to the home or the stove. He noted the fire apparently got too hot causing alarm for the occupants of the Hershberger […]
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that tenants have the right to a jury trial for rent and possession evictions. The unanimous ruling in the case of Brainchild Holdings LLC v. Cameron is expected to help crack down on illegal evictions throughout Missouri. The tenant, Stephanie Cameron, who is blind, alleged that her landlord failed […]
Don Dalrymple of Trenton, Missouri was recently recognized by the Missouri Community College Association (MCCA) for his outstanding support as a board trustee for North Central Missouri College and his service to MCCA. Don received the 2017 Trustee Leadership award at the statewide MCCA convention held in Branson, Missouri. This award is given annually to […]
The four counties of the Third Judicial Circuit Court received awards during a late morning ceremony at the Grundy County Courthouse in Trenton. Presentations of plaques were handled by Missouri State Courts Administrator Kathy Lloyd on behalf of the Supreme Court of Missouri. Ms. Lloyd traveled to Trenton for the 11 am awards to the […]
Several arrests are Monday’s report from Grundy County Sheriff’s Department. 37-year-old Darrell Wayne Graham of Trenton was being returned to Grundy County from the Department of Corrections facility in Moberly. Graham is charged with child molestation in the first degree stemming from an incident in August 2013 that allegedly involved what was then a five-year-old […]
The highway patrol reports an Eagleville teenager was injured Monday morning in a rollover accident that involved swerving to miss a deer on Highway 46 in rural Harrison County. 17-year-old Dakota Bellinger received minor injuries and another vehicle transported him to Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany. Authorities said Bellinger had been westbound when he […]
With the city of Trenton facing a July 2019 deadline per a settlement agreement with Department of Natural Resources on a bypass elimination disinfection plan, the City Council last night reviewed a draft of a design-build agreement on proposed wastewater plant improvements. Burns and McDonnell of Kansas City presented a two-phase project. The first one […]
Among the information in a report provided by the Chillicothe Police Department is the Friday night arrest of 18-year-old Lucas William Wine for alleged statutory rape in the first degree in the 600 block of Walnut Street in Chillicothe. Wine was processed at the police department; then transferred to the Daviess-DeKalb County Regional Jail. At an […]
Two members of the Chillicothe FFA chapter, Meredith Oesch, and Kaylee Lewis, placed second in public speaking contests held last week. Meredith represented the Livingston County Farm Bureau at the Farm Bureau public speaking contest. As the winner of a district contest, she advanced to state. The contest consisted of students preparing a six to eight-minute speech […]
At the two-thirds point in the city of Trenton fiscal year, city sales tax funds are running ahead of the pace from one year ago. The general sales tax fund has received $526,000 which is $21,000 more than the comparable period of a year ago. Capital projects sales tax is nearly $263,000 which is $11,000 […]
Livingston County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a woman accused of hindering prosecution when authorities last week went to her home at Avalon in search of her son. 77-year-old Edith Mae Hines is charged with a felony of hindering prosecution by allegedly denying the presence of 40-year-old Lee Alvin Hines even though officials believed […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest Thursday of two area men. Thirty-five-year-old Victor Tunnell of Galt was arrested for felony hindering prosecution of a felony. His bond is $10,000 cash only, and he is scheduled for the associate division of circuit court Tuesday. Court documents accuse Tunnell of preventing the apprehension of Austin […]
Sullivan County Commissioner Danny Busick of Newtown recently announced he is running for the Missouri House of Representatives. Busick says his decision to run for Third District State Representative goes back to his former neighbor who used be a Representative of the Third District, which intrigued Busick. He says the thing that has urged him […]
A Lathrop, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a $1.7 million fraud scheme related to the sale of his business. Todd Edwin Rood, 46, of Lathrop, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, to a federal information […]
Manpower will hold hiring events at the Trenton Job Center twice this week. The hiring events will be Tuesday morning, December 12 at 10 o’clock and Thursday afternoon, December 14th at 1 o’clock and applicants will need to complete a profile before meeting with a Manpower representative. Applicants will also need to bring photo identification […]
A couple from Dawn won the Missouri Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Excellence in Agriculture Award at the organization’s 103rd annual meeting. Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst recognized Dylan and Meredith Lange for their involvement in the Farm Bureau, agriculture, and their community. The award recognizes young farmers and ranchers who have not […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Cameron man sustained serious injuries as the result of a one-vehicle accident five miles southeast of Cameron early Saturday morning at 3:45 am. Forty-one-year-old Scotty Caselman traveled south on Alamo Road when he reportedly lost control of his pickup. The truck ran off the east side of the road, struck […]
