North Central Missouri Fair Queen Pageant Coordinator Loren Meservey has announced the contestants for this year’s pageant. Contestants are Emma Leamer of Chillicothe and Sydney Meeks of Maysville who are both agriculture students. The competition will be held on Sunday at noon and will only include an interview portion this year. The competition is closed […]
Netflix is providing subscribers with a host of new streaming options to watch in the comfort of their homes this August. From original shows to top-notch films, Netflix has a number of compelling offerings lined up. Arriving in August A * denotes a Netflix original. Links go to Netflix trailers and watch pages. August 1 Batman Begins Chernobyl […]
The term “right to work’ relates to or promotes the right of a worker to be able to obtain employment without being required to join a labor union to do so. When right to work laws are in place, workers cannot be compelled to pay for any cost of union representation, even if the union […]
Wright Memorial Hospital began working with a new group of emergency medicine providers, Emergency Medical Services, in its emergency department. EMS is part of ENVISION Physician Services, a high quality, nationwide team of providers, which Saint Luke’s Health System uses to staff emergency departments at some of its other facilities. “Through EMS’ positive partnership with […]
Northwest Missouri State University has announced that Andy Peterson, a former student-athlete, and coach who has served in the University’s athletics administration since 2013, is Northwest’s next director of athletics. Peterson had served as Northwest’s interim director of athletics since Mel Tjeerdsma’s April 30 retirement. His new appointment is effective immediately. “Andy is a Bearcat […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will take several actions to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation. President Trump directed Secretary Perdue to craft a short-term relief strategy to protect agricultural producers while the Administration works on free, fair, and reciprocal trade deals […]
The Trenton City Council has arranged financing for the city share of the costs related to replacement of the 17th Street Bridge. The council last night gave unanimous approval to an ordinance on a lease purchase transaction. A ten-year loan has been set up with the Security Bank of Kansas City as the trustee. The principal […]
The Missouri Department of Agriculture reports the Missouri Dairy Scholars Scholarship Program is now accepting applications. The program provides a $5,000 scholarship to assist with educational expenses at a two- or four-year college or university in Missouri for eligible students in an agricultural-related degree program who make a commitment to work in the agriculture industry […]
Results from the beef show at the Mercer County Fair in Princeton included Allena Allen of Trenton showing the Grand Champion female and winning Senior Showmanship honors. Morgan reed of Gilman City exhibited the Grand Champion bull with Sari Rogers of Princeton showing the Reserve Champion Bull as well as placing second in the county […]
Lacey Power with the Mercer County Fair has provided results of the fair’s Sheep, Swine, and Goat Shows. The Sheep Show competition saw Kendra Betz of Trenton with the Grand Champion Ram. The Grand Champion Market Lamb belonged to Brylee Williams of Princeton. Wyatt Vogel of Lineville received honors with the Grand Champion Ewe, Reserve […]
Grundy Electric Cooperative will host its annual membership meeting in August. All Grundy Electric member-owners are invited to attend the event at the North Mercer R-3 High School in Mercer the evening of August 2nd. Registration, a dinner, and musical entertainment by the Marks Family from Jefferson City will start at 4:30 with the business […]
Grundy County Extension will host an agriculture economist from the University of Missouri at a free public forum about new tariffs later this month. Director of Strategic Partnerships for the University of Missouri’s College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Doctor Scott Brown will discuss the latest tariffs implemented by China and Mexico and their […]
The Newtown-Harris R-3 Board of Education approved multiple items at a meeting this week. Those items included the Missouri Virtual Instruction Program/Missouri Course Access Program for math instruction for ninth through 12th grade for the 2018-2019 school year as well as a contract for Allison Garcia as the ninth through 12th-grade math aide for MOVIP/MOCAP […]
The results have been released from the Mercer County Fair Swine Show. Lacey Power with the fair reports Calvin Grady of Gallatin had the Grand Champion Boar and Reserve Champion Market Hog. Grant Oaks of Harris had the Reserve Champion Boar. Remington Isaacs of Chillicothe had the Grand Champion Gilt and received Junior Showmanship. Reserve […]
Three area youth are attending the Advanced Air Academy in Oshkosh, Wisconsin under the sponsorship of the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 944 based in Chillicothe. Taking part in the academy are John Gibson and McKay Marble both of Gallatin and Grace Madison of Chillicothe. The academy includes ground instruction and introductory recreation flights. Chapter 944 […]
Grundy County now has a mass notification system to get various alerts to residents and Grundy County Emergency Management Director Glen Briggs talks about what the Everbridge Grundy County Alert System will be used for. Briggs says if a phone is busy, the notification system will try back in five minutes and continue […]
The results have been released for the Mercer County Fair’s Rabbit and Poultry shows. Lacey Power with the Mercer County Fair reports that for the Rabbit Show, Sadie Butterfield of Bethany received Best in Show 4 Class, 6 Class, and Overall as well as Reserve Best in Show Overall. Mylee Francis of Princeton received Reserve […]
A Christ-based group in the area has added a new weekly meeting to help individuals with any problems they may have. Celebrate Recovery now meets at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Trenton on Tuesday evenings at 6:30. This is in addition to its weekly meetings at 10th Street Baptist Church in Trenton Saturday evenings […]
The Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 944 of Chillicothe is accepting donations for its 26th Annual Breakfast Fly-In and Drive-In. The event will include a breakfast, lunch, and airplane rides at the Chillicothe Municipal Airport on August 25th. Pancakes, sausage, juice, and coffee will be served from 7 to 10 o’clock that morning. The breakfast is […]
Applications are being accepted for the North Central Missouri Fair Queen Pageant. Ladies ages 17 to 21 who are members of 4-H or FFA may apply and have a chance to receive scholarship money. The application deadline is Friday, and the competition will be held July 29th. Contestants will be judged on their interviews, talent, […]
