House Minority Leader Crystal Quade says 120,000 Missourians, including about 95,000 children, have reportedly been removed from Medicaid since January 2018. State Representative David Wood, who chairs a budget committee involving Social Services, says the number of Missourians on state healthcare has declined, but the state’s Medicaid costs continue to climb. Wood thinks […]
Additional winners have been announced from the Jamesport Junior Livestock Show. In the Swine Show, Grand Champion Boar went to Graydee Rains of Gallatin, and Reserve Champion Boar went to Wade Horton of Chillicothe. Grand Champion Gilt: Macie Rodenburg of Wheeling, and Reserve Champion Gilt: Kaitlyn Bird of Gallatin. Grand Champion Market: Charlie Peniston of […]
Multiple activities are planned for the 128th Annual Jameson Picnic August 8th through 10th at the Jameson City Park. Activities will begin with a talent show with four age divisions on the evening of August 8th at 6:30. Cash prizes will be awarded. The Mud Crickets will play country and rock music at 8 o’clock. […]
Making a selection as the 2019 Trenton High School Alumni Honoree was a difficult one for the Class of 1994 as many teachers and staff members were deserving and considered for the honor. To allow for each voice to be heard, class members were invited to vote for their choice and with a fantastic class […]
The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in northern Missouri for the week of July 29 – August 4, 2019. Continued flooding may cause schedule changes in some of the planned work. There may also be moving operations throughout the region such as […]
House Minority Leader Crystal Quade of Springfield says 120,000 Missourians, including about 95,000 children, have been removed from Medicaid since January 2018. State Representative David Wood, who chairs a budget committee involving Social Services, says he’s been following the reduction for months. He thinks the dip in numbers is largely tied to the Affordable Care […]
The widespread opioid epidemic is considered a public health crisis and for years has been an ongoing challenge in Missouri and across the nation. Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) continues to be innovative in its efforts to help people affected by this epidemic. “What we are dealing with in Missouri is an […]
Results have been released from the shows at the Jamesport Junior Livestock Show held on Thursday morning. In the Goat Show, Grand Champion Buck went to Carter Williams of Bethany. Reserve Champion Buck went to Reegan McBroom of Gallatin. Grand Champion Doe: Wyatt Ellis of Bethany, and Reserve Champion Doe: Trinity Alexander of Unionville. Grand […]
The American Red Cross is once again teaming up with family and friends, and Marceline Fire and Rescue to host a blood drive in memory of Zach Cupp Saturday, August 3, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Father McCartan School Gym, 327 S. Kansas Avenue, in Marceline. In August 2012, Zach Cupp was […]
Entries are still being accepted for the North Central Missouri Fair Parade in Trenton and spots are also available for Rock Barn courtyard vendors at the fair. Parade entries will line up by number for the “Making the Fair a Family Tradition” themed parade Tuesday evening at 5 o’clock with the parade to begin on […]
A captivating photo featuring the picturesque landscape of rural Missouri is the Best in Show for the 2019 Focus on Missouri Agriculture Photo Contest, hosted by the Missouri Department of Agriculture. The photograph, submitted by Wanda Moore of Cabool, Mo., was chosen from more than 1,200 photos submitted by amateur photographers from across Missouri. “The […]
After his probation was previously suspended, a probation violation hearing was held Tuesday in Grundy County Circuit Court for Thomas Kopp of Lexington. Kopp’s original charge in Grundy County is a misdemeanor of non-support. The court approved the defense attorney’s request for Kopp to be released on a $12,000 personal recognizance bond pending attendance at […]
University of Missouri Extension dairy specialist Ted Probert says this is a good time to review management practices to harvest good quality silage. He offers the following tips: Prepare the storage structure. Empty, clean and inspect bunkers and towers for structural damage. If storing in bags, choose and prepare a hard-surface site in a well-drained […]
A former teacher and coach at Winston School charged with four felony counts of fourth-degree child molestation, sexual contact with a student, and third-degree assault appeared in the Associate Division of Daviess County Circuit Court on Tuesday. The court denied a request for the bond to be changed for 50-year-old Alfred Brian Sprouse of Gallatin […]
The president and founder of FarmHer shares her story at the Farm, Family & ME! Summit for Women September 5-6, 2019. Marji Guyler-Alaniz will tell how she began sharing the story of everyday farm life through photographs and videos. “Her story will leave you knowing your place in the culture of agriculture,” says University of […]
Hope Ellsworth of Cainsville and Naomi Thomsen of Eagleville, were among the 103 high school students from across Missouri who participated in the Missouri Electric Cooperative CYCLE (Cooperative Youth Conference and Leadership Experience) program. The conference was held on July 17-19, 2019, in Jefferson City. They were sponsored by the Grundy Electric Cooperative, Trenton. Each […]
Mid-States Services has planned an outage for Trenton Wednesday and Thursday due to maintenance. The maintenance is scheduled from midnight to 6 o’clock in the morning both days. Services will be down for residential customers several times during the maintenance window for a period of 10 to 15 minutes each. The maintenance involves fiber vendors […]
Corn and soybean crops planted on “prevented acres” not planted last spring may provide corn and soybean forage for cattle this fall. With a wet spring, many farmers failed to make quality hay for cow herds. Now, cover crops needed on bare crop ground may produce quality forage. Earlier regulations on unplanted cropland restricted using […]
More than 204,000 child support cases exist in Missouri with roughly 2.39 billion dollars owed to parents who have primary custody. State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick says a new automated system of matching unclaimed property owner names to those owing child support is blowing the previous year’s total out of the water. In 2018, his office’s […]
Auditor Nicole Galloway says law enforcement in Missouri has made significant progress in the past nine months to ensure sex offenders comply with the state’s registration law, and to update the database that provides the public with information about offenders. The progress, which comes after an audit of the sex offender registration program last October, […]
