The Community Action Partnership of North Central Missouri provides various services in the Green Hills area. One of those services is the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps households in need with utilities. Executive Director Chris Small reports Community Action works with more than 40 utility vendors. Some of the vendors are municipal […]
Next week, the ramps on Interstate 35 in Clinton County at U.S. Route 69 (Exit 48) will close for resurfacing. Crews from Iowa Civil Contracting, Inc., working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, plan to close the ramps on Monday, May 10. Both the northbound and southbound on and off-ramps will close Monday at 7 […]
Missouri WIC is temporarily increasing the Cash Value Benefit for Fruit and Vegetable Purchases (CVB) to $35 per month for eligible women and children. WIC is the Department of Health and Senior Services Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. The American Rescue Plan Act gave USDA authority to temporarily increase the CVB […]
As demand for the COVID-19 vaccine has significantly decreased in recent weeks, Governor Mike Parson announced the Missouri National Guard (MONG) has begun scaling back its involvement at mass vaccination site locations in May. The drawdown of National Guard members is set to be completed by June 1, 2021. “We are in a far different […]
During the month of April, GRM Networks kicked off fiber-to-the-premise construction in three rural exchanges. Contractors working on behalf of GRM Networks began fiber construction in the rural exchanges of Bethany and Princeton, while GRM Networks’ own construction department began work in the rural Spickard exchange. “Our employees and board of directors have worked hard […]
The Livingston County Commission will attend meetings and open bids next week. The commission plans to attend the E911 meeting at the Chillicothe City Hall on May 11, 2021, at 10 o’clock in the morning and the Local Emergency Planning Committee meeting at the Livingston County Health Center of Chillicothe on May 13th at 1 o’clock […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education next week will discuss non-certified payroll disbursement and extra duty schedule adjustments. The board will meet at the district office on May 11, 2021, at 5:30 in the evening. Other items on the agenda include recognition of retirees, an escrow deposit agreement for 2010B bonds, a Pleasant View R-6 cooperative […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in north Missouri for the week of May 10 – 16. All road closures and planned roadwork may be viewed on the Traveler Information Map at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. Inclement weather may cause schedule changes in some of […]
A draft 2022-2026 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program that focuses on taking care of the state’s existing transportation system was presented today to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission. A 30-day public review and comment period began on Wednesday, May 5) Missouri Department of Transportation Planning Director Eric Curtit told commissioners the draft STIP includes 1,417 […]
(Missouri Independent) – Utility providers across Kansas and Missouri may soon be able to retire coal-fired power plants faster as the energy sector accelerates its transition to renewable energy sources. Kansas already passed legislation that allows companies to shutter coal plants, which release considerable amounts of carbon dioxide, without the financial hit that would otherwise come […]
Missouri’s Amtrak rail service funding was back on the chopping block on Wednesday. Kansas City Democrat Greg Razer and House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smith discussed the plan. During legislative negotiations on the state budget, an effort was made to trim Amtrak service from two daily trips to one. About 170,000 people ride […]
The Trenton Park Board discussed pool staffing at a meeting on Wednesday, May 5th. Board President Duane Helmandollar reported six applications have been submitted for lifeguards this season for the Trenton Family Aquatic Center. Park Superintendent David Shockley announced there were three applications for assistant manager, and Taylor Richman has been hired as pool manager. […]
Local maintenance crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation had planned to replace a culvert on Daviess County Route Y, north of Winston, on Thursday, May 6, between Route 6 and Reel Avenue. The work has now been canceled due to work on another project. The new date for the culvert replacement has yet to […]
The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission today selected the Lehman-Wilson team for the design-build contract to replace 31 weight-restricted and poor condition bridges in northern Missouri over the next two and a half years through the Fixing Access to Rural Missouri Bridge Program. It was made possible by the 2019 receipt of a $20.7 million […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that on April 27, 2021, Healthy Home & Family, Inc., an in-home health care provider, and its owners, Belinda Bivens and Mary Stockson, have entered into a civil settlement agreement totaling $302,127 in restitution and penalties, with his office for submitting 114 false claims to Missouri Medicaid (MO HealthNet). […]
The staff of Trenton Municipal Utilities continues to flush the water system as part of a semi-annual requirement of the water treatment process. The area east of Highway 65 to the city limits will be flushed May 5 through 7. There may be discolored water during the hours of flushing from 7 o’clock in the morning […]
The Branch of Weldon Fork Creek Bridge on Mercer County Route BB will close soon for a bridge deck replacement project. The Missouri Department of Transportation contracted with Emery Sapp & Sons, Inc. to replace the bridge’s deck. Crews plan to close the bridge to all traffic on Monday, May 17, at approximately 8 a.m. The […]
Due to the impending prospect of wet and cool weather on Saturday, THS will hold its graduation ceremony in the THS gym on Saturday, May 8th. Doors will still open at 6 pm with the ceremony scheduled for 7:30. All guests should plan to enter through the activities entrance on the south side of the […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will continue initiatives to integrate conservation with agriculture practices and help restore and manage sand prairies after being awarded two partnership projects through the Natural Resources Conservation Service Regional Conservation Partnership Program. Through RCPP, conservation partners work in collaboration with NRCS to help farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners throughout […]
Several Christian and Gospel artists will perform at this year’s Resound Fest of Bethany. There will be two stages at the Miracle Hills Ranch on June 11th and 12th. Artists will start that Friday at 3 o’clock on the 360 Stage, with 9th Hour. Brendyn and Doug Johnson are also scheduled to perform. The Main […]
