Following an executive session, the Trenton R-9 school district had some personnel announcements. Tara Hoffman of Trenton was employed as the R-9 director of special services for the next school year. She’ll succeed Kristie Davis who will be resigning at the end of her contract. The board accepted retirement letters from two instructors: Lynn Griffin […]
The Laredo R-7 Board of Education has amended the current budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and adopted a new budget for the year beginning July 1. Information provided by the Laredo school shows amendments were approved to the 2015-16 budget leaving a tentative fund balance estimated at around $695,000 dollars. The […]
North Central Missouri College Trustees last evening adopted a deficit spending budget for the coming fiscal year while hearing college administrators promote efforts to increase student enrollment and retention. Chief Financial Operations Director Tyson Otto said he’d prefer to present a balanced budget. But he feels the deficit can be absorbed due to what he called good reserves. The […]
Personnel, school lunch prices, and bids were among topics last night for the Laredo R-7 Board of Education. Contracts were accepted from Alicia Rojas for speech language pathology at ten hours per week; and from Melissa Perry for occupational therapy for approximately two to four hours per week. The board agreed to offer a contract […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education has announced four resignations and four employments following a closed session on Wednesday regarding personnel. Resigning effective at the end of the current school year are Trenton Middle School Principal Dustin Jenkerson, his wife Lindsey (a music teacher at S.M. Rissler Elementary School), Trenton High School Assistant Principal Erik […]
A Trenton committee promoting the city sales tax issue for the fire department points out home and business owners could see lower insurance premiums once a proposed fire training facility is established at Trenton. Part of the revenue generated by a one-quarter of a cent sales tax is earmarked for firefighter training locally and from […]
The Trenton City Council’s finance committee meets several times during preparations for the city budget for the fiscal year beginning May 1st. That’s also the case this year, with two more meetings announced for Wednesday, February 23, and Friday, February 26, both at noon. Trenton mayor nick McHargue, during last night’s city council meeting, said […]
Fire Friday afternoon at Trenton destroyed a mobile home at 1908 Colt. Nobody was home at the time. The owner of the property was listed as Robert Allen. Trenton Fire Marshall Robert Romesburg said the blaze was fully involved when firefighters arrived. Lieutenant Romesburg reported a faulty meter box caused a short resulting in an […]
