Main Street Trenton will host a virtual scavenger hunt this weekend as part of Trenton High School alumni activities. The walking hunt will begin at 903 Main Street and feature historic photos of downtown Trenton. Participants scan QR codes and receive clues to remember the old and discover the new. Eleven historic sites will be […]
The 46th Great Pershing Balloon Derby will be held this weekend. Green Hills Ballooning, Incorporated sponsors the event, which will include activities in and near Brookfield from September 2nd through 5th. The South Main Night Flame will be on the night of September 2nd. September 3rd will include multiple balloon flights, East Twin Park activities […]
A contract has been finalized regarding real estate action taken by the North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees in an executive session last week. Chief of Staff Kristi Harris reports the college purchased 109 East Crowder Road in Trenton from Gordon and Sue Gunter for $50,000. NCMC does not have set plans for the […]
The Greencastle Community Labor Day Celebration will be in Greencastle Park this weekend. Live music will start September 2nd with Lacey Mihalevich at 6:30 in the evening and Bob Seger tribute band “Silver Bullet” at 8 pm. September 3rd’s schedule includes the Walk the Castle 3K Fun Walk, a craft and vendor fair, a cornhole […]
Tickets will go on sale September 1st for Art’s Alive-sponsored performances of Harvey by Mary Chase. The play will be performed in the Hoover Theater of the Grundy County Jewett Norris Library in Trenton on September 24th and 25th at 2 p.m. Doors to the theater will open at 1:30 pm on both days. There […]
The owner of a tow truck died Monday afternoon at the scene of a single vehicle accident in Gentry County. Sixty-two-year-old Roger Smith of Albany was pronounced dead at the scene, five miles west of Albany. The tow truck was eastbound on Highway 136 when the front driver’s side tire had an equipment failure causing […]
Country music recording artist, Ryan Griffin, and local Trenton resident, Charlie Bacon, drew a crowd of approximately 225 attendees to the Leadership Northwest Music Jam on Saturday night. All ticket proceeds benefited the Leadership Northwest Missouri program and raised $9,451 for the organization. The show was hosted for the second year at Black Silo Winery […]
Kirksville Police report one arrest has been made as officers continue to investigate a robbery. Early Friday evening, officers responded to the 900 block of Pheasant Drive in Kirksville to investigate a reported burglary and robbery. Police interviewed a victim and witnesses. The victim reported being robbed by several male suspects and also reported minor […]
A Daviess County traffic accident Monday morning, one mile east of Altamont, injured two of the three drivers of motor vehicles. Fifty-year-old William Loucks of Gallatin and 63-year-old Marc Stuva of Holden received moderate injuries. Both were taken by ambulance to Cameron Regional Medical Center. The other driver, 27-year-old Garrett Thompson of Trenton, was not […]
(Brownfield) – Missouri corn is progressing quicker than last year with 15% of the crop mature at the end of August, compared to 10% in 2021. The USDA reports as of Sunday 95% of the crop is in the dough stage with 73% dented, also slightly ahead of last year. Corn conditions are worse than […]
(Missouri Independent) – Voters in at least three states will determine at the polls in November what abortion access looks like for their neighbors, colleagues, friends and family — becoming some of the first Americans to deliver their own verdicts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Residents of California, Kentucky […]
(Missouri Independent) – Willian woke up before dawn on a recent Tuesday, packed his legal documents into a blue folder, and got in a van with other migrants to one of the international bridges that connect El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. At the port of entry, the 46-year-old asylum-seeker from Ecuador was disenrolled from the […]
(Missouri Independent) – A Boone County Circuit Court judge on Monday sided with the Missouri School Boards Association and dismissed a lawsuit that argued the organization was subject to the state’s open records laws. Southeastern Legal Foundation, a Georgia-based legal nonprofit that filed the lawsuit, argued the Missouri School Boards Association (MSBA) violated the Sunshine […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that his office and 21 other states filed an amicus brief in U.S. Navy Seals v. Biden, opposing the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on members of the military. The brief asserts that the refusal to grant religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine to members of the United States […]
A former Statesboro, Georgia city councilman was sentenced to 33 months in prison for evading taxes on income from bars he co-owned. According to court documents and statements made in court, William Britt, now of Bluffton, South Carolina, evaded taxes on income from various bars he co-owned near college campuses in Georgia. As part of […]
Jeffery T. Havens, 27, a former Eastern Kentucky Correctional Center officer from West Liberty, Kentucky, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, to one count of depriving an inmate of his civil rights. According to his plea agreement, Havens admitted that on July 24, 2018, he and another EKCC correctional officer assaulted an inmate […]
In conjunction with the North Missouri Drug Task Force, and assisted by the Adair County Sheriff’s Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Kirksville Police Department has executed numerous narcotics search warrants within the city of Kirksville this year. These searches have recovered several illegally owned or stolen firearms, paraphernalia used in narcotics distribution, […]
What began as picnics in each of the first three years of the Trenton alumni weekend has grown to attract thousands home for a multiple-day celebration. Events are planned from Friday through Sunday as the Trenton alumni reunion is held with many classes planning individual gatherings. Trenton resident John Holcomb provided a history of the […]
Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) announced that he is currently accepting applications from North Missouri students interested in attending the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, U.S. Military Academy, or U.S. Naval Academy. “Our nation’s service academies are some of the most selective and prestigious institutions in the world,” said Graves. “Each year I have the […]
A policeman and a resident of Livingston County, arrested for 3rd-degree domestic assault, has been released from jail on his own recognizance pending a September 7th appearance in circuit court in Chillicothe. The highway patrol on Friday night arrested 24-year-old Joshua Charlton on a felony charge. He was held overnight at the Grundy County Detention […]
