Pavement repairs planned for next week require the closure of one lane of Interstate 29 in St. Joseph. Local maintenance crews will have intermittent lane closures both north and southbound I-29 between Frederick Avenue and Easton Road beginning at 6 a.m. Monday, May 14. Work will continue through Thursday, May 17 at approximately 4:30 p.m. […]
A delayed shoulder improvement project in Linn County is set to begin Monday, May 14. The Missouri Department of Transportation has contracted with Capital Paving and Construction, LLC to improve the shoulders and replace guardrail from just east of Brookfield to just east of Bucklin and repave the shoulders of the ramps at the Route […]
One of multiple programs the Community Action Partnership of North Central Missouri provides is the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Executive Director Aaron Franklin says that LIHEAP assists families by paying utility bills. He says the agency began the winter portion of the program in November. The agency was able to make a one-time […]
Community Action Partnership of North Central Missouri is seeking homeowners, renters, and landlords interested in participating in the Low-Income Weatherization Assistance Program. The program provides cost-effective energy-efficient home improvements to Missouri’s low-income households, especially for the elderly, children, those with physical disadvantages, and others hit hardest by high utility costs. The program aims to lower […]
Multiple activities are planned for youth during the Sixth Annual Cops and Kids Fishing Event next month. The free event titled “Cops ‘N’ Bobbers” will be held at the North Central Missouri College Barton Farm Campus Pond June 2nd from 9 o’clock to Noon and Lieutenant Police Chief Rex Ross discusses the activities that are […]
Nearly 150 third through fifth-grade students from six schools in Linn and Livingston counties attended the Second Farm Safety Day at the Forage Systems Research Center in Linneus this week. Students went on a 10-stop tour that provided them information about farm, ATV, electrical, tractor, and water and boat safety as well as first aid […]
A resurfacing project through Mercer, Grundy, Livingston, and Carroll counties is scheduled to start back up sooner than originally expected. The Missouri Department of Transportation has contracted with Vance Brothers to resurface approximately 83 miles of U.S. Route 65 between the Iowa border and the Missouri River as well as a small portion of Route […]
April 2018 is the driest on record in Trenton in a century since records have been kept in 1918. Just .55 of an inch of moisture from rain and melted precipitation has been measured this month at the Trenton Fire Station where readings are taken for the National Weather Service. This is just the sixth […]
University of Missouri Extension agronomists voiced concern during a teleconference that cool, dry conditions are causing delayed planting and slow forage growth statewide. MU Extension climatologist Pat Guinan reported double-digit departures from normal temperatures for northern Missouri during the first three weeks of April. Much of the state also suffers from a lack of moisture, […]
Weather is pushing the start date for resurfacing projects on Route J in Carroll County and Route H in Livingston County. Contractors from Herzog Contracting Corp. of St. Joseph, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, plan to begin resurfacing the two roadways on April 9. Once started, both projects should take about 10 working […]
A television meteorologist from Kansas City will speak at a program in Trenton this evening Thursday, March 8, 2018. Joe Lauria from Fox 4 will be in the Hoover Theater at the Grundy County Jewett Norris Library at 6 o’clock. Grundy County Emergency Management Director Glen Briggs says Lauria from will talk about general weather, […]
Next week is Severe Weather Awareness Week and National Weather Service Meteorologist Ryan Cutter says that the purpose of the week is to encourage the public to think about the severe weather that could occur in the area, including thunderstorms, flooding, hail, and tornadoes, and what they should do in a severe weather event. Grundy […]
Beginning the second week of March, contractors from Chester Bross Construction Company of Palmyra, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, will begin a bridge deck replacement on Harrison County Route EE over Big Muddy Creek located 0.1 miles south of Route M. The bridge will close the morning of March 12 and will remain […]
The Trenton City Council last night took votes on three ordinances, passing one of them on a split vote to enact a leash law. The council heard presentations from four citizens on topics like downtown Christmas lights; a property lien the city holds following demolition of a house; cable television reception in the lake Trenton area; […]
Most of Missouri remains in a drought, according to a map released Feb. 8 by the National Drought Mitigation Center. The drought affects livestock farmers facing dwindling hay reserves. Row crop farmers are eyeing the situation with caution as planting season nears. East-central, southeastern and south-central Missouri face the largest water deficits in the state, […]
School districts across Missouri are closed today because of excessively cold weather. After much of the state received one-to-three inches of snow on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, temperatures began to dive and continued to drop overnight Tuesday morning. Wind chill values reached minus-10, and in some cases, minus-25. The only part […]
Last Sunday’s accident in Macon County, has now claimed the life of a resident of LaPlata. 82-year-old Mary East was listed with serious injuries Sunday. The patrol reported she died late Tuesday afternoon at University Hospital in Columbia. This was the accident at Atlanta in which a car went out of control on an icy […]
Winter is almost upon us, and with that, the Trenton R-9 School District has made plans on how to handle school cancellations and days that start late. With information on how the district will hand Winter situations, Superintendent Dan Wiebers tells listeners how announcements will be made.
Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce President Debbie Carman spoke during the Missouri Day Festival Opening Ceremonies held at the First Baptist Church Thursday evening. With rain in Saturday’s forecast, Carman emphasized that the festival will go on rain or shine, and as far as parking for those attending the festival, Carman says that shouldn’t be […]
Planned surface improvements to Route CC in Harrison and Grundy counties have been delayed due to the weather. The Missouri Department of Transportation and contractors from Herzog Contracting Corporation planned to begin overlay on the road Monday but now plan to begin work on or around May 30th. They plan to start at the south end […]
