Views: 0The Grundy County Commission approved an employee classification change and accepted a resignation involving Grundy County Ambulance on December 29th. The employee classification change involved Sarah Crosson. She completed her paramedic training/certification to allow for the change. The resignation was from Emergency Medical Technician Lilly Simmons. Ambulance Director Steve Tracy and Billing Clerk Beth […]
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Crash on Monday afternoon injures Green City man and Milan woman
Views: 1Drivers of two pickup trucks received minor injuries in an early Monday afternoon (12:55 pm) accident in Green City. Both 66-year-old Dennis Foster of Green City and 77-year-old Susan Pace of Milan were taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. Foster was northbound when he allegedly failed to yield at the Highway 6 […]
Unionville woman and two men from Kirksville die in head-on crash west of Novinger
Views: 2Three northeast Missouri residents died in a head-on crash early Monday morning one and a half miles west of Novinger. The two drivers were killed at the scene while one passenger died nearly three hours later at a hospital. The state patrol identified the victims as 36-year-old Nicholaus Ford of Kirksville and his passenger, […]
Motorists travelling north into southern Iowa will encounter a Winter Storm Warning that includes heavy snow
Views: 0The National Weather Service office at Pleasant Hill says it’s conservative when it issued a Winter Weather Advisory for north central and northeast Missouri for Tuesday from 12 noon until 6 am Wednesday. A NWS map shows the advisory area from St. Joseph, east to Trenton and Kirksville, and other locations to the north. […]
Kirksville woman hospitalized after crashing on Highway 6
Views: 0The Highway Patrol reports a Kirksville woman sustained moderate injuries when the vehicle she drove ran off the road and overturned three miles east of Kirksville on Wednesday morning, December 23rd. An ambulance transported 52-year-old April Craig to the Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. The vehicle traveled west on Highway 6 before running […]
Tar spot found in northeast Missouri cornfields
Views: 0Missouri corn growers should scout for an emerging crop disease, tar spot, in 2021, says University of Missouri Extension plant pathologist Kaitlyn Bissonnette. She identified tar spot in four far northeastern Missouri counties: Scotland, Lewis, and Clark in 2019 and Marion in 2020. She expects it to spread in the northern half of Missouri […]
JC Penney closing another 15 stores, with one in Missouri included in latest announcement
Views: 2JC Penney is closing another 15 stores nationwide next spring, including one in southern Missouri. The department store chain’s website shows the West Plains location is shutting down. The company closed its stores for two months when COVID-19 first came on the scene. It then chose to permanently shutter about 150 stores and file […]
Hy-Vee donates nearly 1 million pounds of food to food banks across the Midwest
Views: 0Hy-Vee, Inc. is partnering with dozens of national and regional food manufacturers and suppliers to help provide more than 1 million pounds of food to 17 food banks across its eight-state region for the holiday season. Hy-Vee collaborated with many of its supplier partners to fill more than 20 truckloads with food and supplies […]
Crash near Lancaster on Highway 202 injures two
Views: 0The Highway Patrol reports two women sustained moderate injuries when a sports utility vehicle pulled into the path of a car one-quarter of a mile west of Lancaster Friday evening, December 11th. The driver of the car, 32-year-old Whittney Sires of Bloomfield, Iowa, and SUV driver 74-year-old Kay Schmitzer of Glenwood were transported by […]
Audio: Northeast Missouri health departments begging for cooperation for contact tracing for COVID
Views: 0Health departments in rural northeast Missouri are begging for cooperation and honesty when it comes to contact tracing. Knox County health officials say they’re getting incomplete information. WGEM’s Frank Healy reports from Edina. Health officials say they keep getting incomplete information. Knox County health administrator Lori Moots-Clair tells Quincy affiliate WGEM that […]
Grundy County Commission approves additional COVID-19 relief funds; culverts ordered to replenish inventory
Views: 0The Grundy County Commission approved COVID-19 Relief Fund allocations for eight entities on December 8th. The Spickard R-2 School District was approved for $21,115.04, the Laredo R-7 School District $891.94, the Pleasant View R-6 School District $26,406.85, the Grundy County R-5 School District $30,720.28, Grundy County $8,162.46, the City of Trenton $1,845, North Central […]
Audio: $76 Million in to be deployed to Missouri’s K-12 schools, once Governor signs supplemental budget
Views: 0About $76 million in federal money will be heading to Missouri’s k-12 schools, once Governor Mike Parson signs the supplemental budget bill. House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smith, R-Carthage, says the $1.27 billion supplemental budget includes $75.6 million for school nutrition services. “i.e., paying for meals in k-12 education,” Smith says. “So […]
Kirksville teen injured in Putnam County crash
Views: 0The highway patrol reports the driver of a car was hurt when she attempted to avoid an oncoming vehicle in southeastern Putnam County. Seventeen-year-old Audrey Danielson of Kirksville was taken by private vehicle to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with minor injuries. The accident happened Saturday afternoon four miles south of Martinstown on […]
COVID-19 Update: New deaths reported in Daviess and Harrison counties; 106 new cases of COVID-19 reported in area counties
Views: 0A COVID-19-related death has been added in Daviess County since November 25th. The health department reports 10 deaths in total. Forty-nine cases were also added, bringing the total to 410. One hundred sixty-two cases are active. The Daviess County Health Department notes the county is now identified as a Top 5 Hot Spot in […]
Grundy County Route Y to close this week
Views: 0 A section of Grundy County Route Y is scheduled to close for a culvert replacement Friday, December 4, 2020. Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation plan to close the roadway between Northeast 10th Street and Northeast 20th Street from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. During the closure, motorists will need to […]
Crash on snow-covered Highway 11 injures Green City woman
Views: 0In Adair County, 12-miles miles southwest of Kirksville, a Green City woman received moderate injuries when a southbound pickup began sliding on snow-covered Highway 11, traveled off the east side, and struck a fence. Twenty-four-year-old Kylie Perez was taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. The pickup was driven by her husband, 37-year-old […]
Drought conditions remain unchanged in Northern Missouri
Views: 0Even for those areas that received a bit of rain last week, the latest information shows drought conditions in northern Missouri are unchanged from the previous week. The drought monitor index map was released Thursday and based on conditions as of Tuesday. All or parts of 11 northern Missouri counties continue with moderate (D-1) […]
Unionville man injured in crash on Highway 129
Views: 0A Unionville resident was hurt when the pickup truck he was driving traveled off Highway 129 and hit a tree. Sixty-five-year old Ken Brown was taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with minor injuries. The accident took place early Saturday five miles northeast of Unionville on Highway 129 as the pickup was […]
Two injured in crash on Highway 139 near Harris
Views: 1Two drivers were injured when their vehicles collided late Tuesday afternoon on Highway 139 near Harris, in western Sullivan county. Twenty-two-year-old Brady Huffman of Galt received serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to the Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville, while 20-year-old Zoe Littleton of Maryville received minor injuries and was taken by […]