The Missouri State High School Activities Association has announced district football pairings for the 2016 and 2017 seasons, with the Trenton Bulldogs remaining in Class 2, District 8, and seeing just one change to the potential playoff field. East Buchanan, a strong program in districts for the past two years in Class 2, is moving […]
The Missouri Republican Party held local caucuses around the state on Saturday, in efforts to determine delegrats and alternates for Congressional and State Conventions. The caucuses generally were held on a county-wide basis, although 28 township level caucuses were scheduled in the urban St. Louis County. In Grundy County, delegates chosen for the Congressional District […]
Trenton High School Music Department’s Gold Rush group performed as a Chamber Choir Saturday in Maryville and received a rating of THREE. All high school students, Gold Rush and Concert Choir, performed in a Concert Choir and received a rating of TWO. Vocal Music Instructor Tyler Busick stated Saturday was not the day he and […]
Historian, author, and musician Mark Gardner will present a program in Chillicothe on Tuesday night, April 19th, during a quarterly board meeting of the Grand River Historical Society Museum. There will be a catered dinner at the Chillicothe Elks Lodge, followed by Gardner’s program at approximately 7:15. It is open to the public at a […]
ATLANTA (AP) Brandon Moss and Matt Carpenter hit three-run homers and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Braves 12-7 on Sunday to keep Atlanta as the only NL team without a win. The Braves (0-5) also lost right-hander Dan Winkler, who suffered a fractured right elbow while throwing a pitch in the seventh. He left […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals did not need a hit to score the winning run Sunday. It wasn’t about how they reached base, just what they did once they got there. Speedy pinch runner Terrance Gore streaked home on a wild pitch with two outs in the 10th inning, scoring with a […]
Several arrests are in Monday morning’s report from the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department. The first case involves that of 33 year old James LeRoy Houk of Princeton, who has been indicted by a Grundy County grand jury on felony theft charges. Houk is accused of taking U-S currency from Coon Manufacturing of Spickard between February […]
The annual two-month long battle of attrition to obtain Lord Stanley’s Cup will get going later this week, with 16 teams, eight from the Eastern Conference and eight from the West, set to battle in the divisional semifinal round. One of the more anticipated series will involve the long-time rivals St. Louis Blues and Chicago […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Where does Jordan Spieth go from here? He could have been sailing along on the second act to one of the greatest years in golf history. Instead, the young Texan left Augusta shaking his head, and trying to figure out how to shake off one of the most epic collapses in the […]
ATLANTA (AP) Kolten Wong says hitting is contagious. In a runaway win over Atlanta, even starting pitcher Carlos Martinez enjoyed a share of the fun at the plate. Martinez drove in two runs, matching the total he allowed in six innings, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Julio Teheran and the winless Atlanta Braves 12-2 on […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Ian Kennedy followed up an unimpressive spring with a strong regular season debut with the Kansas City Royals. Kennedy pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings and the Royals hit their first three home runs of the season to beat the winless Minnesota Twins 7-0 Saturday night. “There was a little more added […]
St. Louis Community College, playing on its home turf in Kirkwood, Missouri this weekend, took a four-game sweep over the visiting North Central Missouri College Pirates, dropping NCMC’s record to 6-27 for the 2016 spring season. In Saturday’s opener, the Archers took the Pirates down early, scoring five runs in the bottom of the 2nd […]
The North Central Missouri College Lady Pirates, just 48 hours removed from being swept by Jefferson and seeing an eight-game winning streak end, got back on the “winning beam” on Sunday afternoon, taking a pair of wins over St. Charles Community College at Mark Griffin Memorial Field in Trenton. The victories improve North Central’s record […]
Kansas City Chiefs veteran defensive lineman Mike DeVito has announced his retirement, publishing a letter in the Bangor (Maine) Daily News, saying that “there are more important things in life than football. As hard as it is to say goodbye to the game that has made me the man I am, I cannot wait for […]
The Missouri State High School Activities Association has released district assignments for high school basketball for the next two year cycle (2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years). There will be plenty of shifting across northwest Missouri, including Trenton and Brookfield joining a new grouping in Class 3, District 16, after both schools had been in District […]
(Lincoln Journal) – A Nebraska-based popcorn maker has bought a Missouri-based competitor. Preferred Popcorn of Chapman announced last week that it has purchased K&W Popcorn, an organic popcorn maker based in Trenton, Missouri. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The K&W deal was Preferred Popcorn’s third acquisition since its founding in 1997 and will give […]
Trenton city sales tax revenue for the fiscal year ending this month was down three point three percent (3.3) for general purposes and capital projects. That’s compared to the previous fiscal year that ended in April of last year. Sales tax revenue for parks was down one percent in the same comparison. In dollar figures, […]
A Green City woman was injured last evening when, the highway patrol reported, her sports utility vehicle struck a deer on Highway 6 in eastern Sullivan County. The patrol listed injuries as minor for 65 year old Susan Hammons of Green City. She was taken to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. The accident was […]
Fire attributed to a lightning strike destroyed the Terry Feeney residence at 12033 Livingston County road 216 near Chula Sunday morning. Members of the Feeney family were home at the time but got out safely and, there were no injuries. Assistant Chief Randy Horton of the Chula Rural Fire District reported lightning hit a tree […]
A Bethany resident was hurt when the sport utility vehicle he was driving hit a bridge guard rail, then a bridge wall early Sunday south of Bethany. 43-year-old David Parkhurst was taken to Harrison County Community Hospital at Bethany with moderate injuries. The accident happened two miles south of Bethany on Highway 13, when the […]
