The United States Department of Agriculture is investing $237,000,000 in 119 rural community service facilities in 29 states with some of that money is going to recipients in northern Missouri. The Sunnyview Foundation, Incorporated will receive a $36,500 loan and a $19,400 grant to be used to purchase an accessible lift van for the Grundy […]
Highway Patrol Troop H Commanding Officer Captain James McDonald announces Troop H officers will participate in Operation CARE, which stands for Crash Awareness and Reduction Effort. The enforcement will take place during the July 4th holiday. Operation CARE is a national traffic enforcement program focused on making the holiday safer. All available troopers will be […]
A motorcycle and car collided Tuesday evening injuring 45-year-old Ray Lewis of Princeton who was transported by ambulance to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton with minor injuries. Lewis was operating a motorcycle southbound on Highway 65 when he made a left turn into the path of a vehicle, westbound on a private drive. Sixteen-year-old Austin Kelly […]
The Green City Fourth of July Celebration starts this weekend with Church in the Park to be held Sunday morning, and a Western variety show with lunch be held in the afternoon. Activities next Wednesday, July 4th, include the Lady Lions Breakfast; a pie contest; Lovett Law Office open house; the John T. McCarty Memorial […]
The West Fork Locust Creek Bridge closed Monday, June 18 and the Elm Branch Bridge is scheduled to close Monday, June 25. Both bridges, located on U.S. Route 136 east of Lucerne, will be rebuilt in the same alignment as their predecessors. The Missouri Department of Transportation contracted with Boone Construction Company of Columbia to […]
A much-needed resurfacing project through Cameron is scheduled to begin after the Independence Day holiday. The Missouri Department of Transportation has contracted with Herzog Contracting Corporation to complete the project which stretches from just west of Route 33 to just east of the Caldwell County line. Beginning Monday, July 9, the contractor will close one […]
Crews are putting the finishing touches on the new alignment of the westbound lanes of U.S. Route 36 near Osborn. Since March, crews from Herzog Contracting Corporation and their subcontractors, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, have been rebuilding the westbound lanes on a new alignment and added turn lanes at the junction of […]
A Saint Catherine man received serious injuries Saturday afternoon when he lost control of the motorcycle he was operating north of Bevier. Sixty-six-year-old Clarence Futhey was flown by medical helicopter to University Hospital in Columbia. The crash happened three miles north of Bevier on Route O when the southbound motorcycle went out of control on […]
A Chillicothe man pleaded guilty in Livingston County Circuit Court Wednesday to a felony charge stemming from a fatality accident in April 2017. Online court information shows 23-year-old Benjamin Wesley Davis had been charged with operating a motor vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner involving an accident. The court sentenced him to one year […]
A Minnesota man has been sentenced to prison after pleaded guilty to three felony charges stemming from incidents in April and May in Grundy County. Larry Edward Brown Junior of Lakefield, Minnesota appeared yesterday in Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court. Guilty pleas were entered on April charges of tampering with a motor vehicle and resisting, […]
Several defendants have waived preliminary hearings in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court. The cases, on various charges, were bound over to the Division One docket of Thursday, June 14th or Thursday, July 12th. Emma Nichole Brown of Trenton faces two drug-related charges and one of hindering prosecution. Bond was continued at $20,000. […]
A chip seal project is planned this week for Route D in Caldwell County. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to apply this preventive maintenance treatment from U.S. Route 36 to Route 116. Crews will have Route D reduced to one lane both Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15 between […]
The Trenton City Council last night adopted three ordinances and approved three purchases – one of which is a new asphalt plant. One of the ordinances adopted allows the water tower painting contractor, already in Trenton, to do additional work yet this year. The change order allows Ozark Applicators, LLC to paint the interior of […]
Trenton resident Shawn Alan Wells was arrested Friday on a felony charge of stealing as well as a warrant for alleged failure to appear in court on a previous charge. The 37-year-old faces charges of appropriating a refrigerator and a cook stove that were described as the property, on April 7th, belonging to Sarah Holtclaw. Bond […]
A project on U.S. Route 36 at Bob Griffin Road in Cameron is scheduled to begin soon. The Missouri Department of Transportation has contracted with Herzog Contracting Corporation to complete the project which has two phases. The first phase is the installation of traffic detection cameras at the intersection of U.S. Route 36 and Bob […]
The highway patrol reports two Weatherby residents were hurt Sunday morning near King City when the motorcycle they were riding was struck in the side by a deer, causing the motorcycle to veer off the road. The driver, 49-year-old John Baker, and a passenger, 44-year-old Renee Baker were taken to Mosaic Life Care in St. […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Milan woman sustained minor injuries when her sports utility vehicle overturned Friday, and she was later arrested. Thirty-five-year-old Donna Pigg traveled west on Highway 6 when the vehicle ran off the south side of the road at Chestnut Street in Galt. Pigg reportedly overcorrected, the vehicle returned to the road, […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Des Moines, Iowa man sustained serious injuries when his motorcycle overturned and ejected him about a mile and a half south of Blythedale Friday night. Forty-four-year-old Nick Briner traveled south on Route T when he reportedly failed to negotiate a curve and his motorcycle ran off the west side of […]
(Missourinet) – The Missouri Department of Transportation is reminding motorists that I-70 in Kansas City will be COMPLETELY CLOSED in both directions this weekend, between I-435 and I-470. MoDOT resident engineer James Pflum says a good detour is in place, adding that the work is needed so three aging bridges over I-70 can be demolished. […]
The Route 33 North intersection at U.S. Route 36 was closed May 29 as part of the resurfacing and realignment project in DeKalb County near Osborn. The Missouri Department of Transportation contracted with Herzog Contracting Corporation to realign and resurface the westbound lanes of U.S. Route 36 near the junction with Route 33 North and […]
