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LIBERTY — Several businesses in Liberty are nominated for Discover the Best of Missouri Life Awards from Missouri Life Magazine. Voting for the Liberty businesses can be done online at missourilife.com/awards/#//. Voting is open through Sept. 6, and voters can cast one ballot per day per ema…
HOLT — A family seeking to build a house in Holt will now have to seek a variance, which will require a public hearing, after aldermen denied a building permit for a single-family residence due to it not meeting the Holt's zoning regulations for lot depth.
Gov. Mike Parson ordered U.S. and Missouri flags to be flown at half-staff at government buildings across the state on Monday, Aug. 12, in honor of Rep. Rebecca Roeber. Roeber passed away unexpectedly July 30.
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Smithville Police Capt. Tony Roetman said officers were called after the housing authority manager had an issue with a man who had allegedly been staying in his mother’s residence although he wasn’t supposed to.
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KEARNEY — While raised in northern California, Tyler Rich found his love of music gathered around a Christmas tree alongside family singing holiday classics and family favorites of all genres including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Michael Jackson, The Beatles and Tom Petty.
CLAY COUNTY — Mike Shriner has had his eye on the gig for a while, 22 years to be exact.
LIBERTY — A work group seeking to identify resource concerns and provide input about program criteria of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service will meet at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 22, at the USDA Service Center in the UMB building, located off Victory Drive in Liberty.
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KEARNEY — Celebrating the service club’s silver anniversary this year, members of Kearney’s Optimist Club said they’ve had fun serving their community throughout the last 25 years.
CLAY COUNTY — Rebuilding Together Kansas City strives to enable vulnerable families in the Northland to safely stay in their own homes for as long as possible.
Students across the Northland will be back in school this week to begin another year of learning. Missouri State Highway Patrol reminds drivers this means a change in traffic patterns as school buses and parents taking their children to school will join others on the road, impacting commutes.
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Alyssa Adrianna Lemke of Holt graduated from the University of Central Missouri with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree. Sydney D. Ritz of Kearney graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Education degrees.
Sean Roberts
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The University of Wyoming listed Chloe Elise Lyles and Grant O. Sloan of Kearney on its Dean’s Honor Roll for achieving a GPA of 3.4 or higher.
Bustling children and buses moved through neighborhoods in Liberty as the first day of school got underway Wednesday, Aug. 14. Pictured are children racing for the doors at Franklin Elementary School, located at 201 W. Mill St.
SMITHVILLE — Danielle Boyle, a Platte County High School graduate, was awarded Smithville Knights of Columbus Council No. 9272's Advanced Education Assistance Program $500 scholarship to help offset costs associated with her attendance at Metropolitan Community College — Maple Woods beginnin…
Sean Roberts
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Trenton Covington of Holt graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in agribusiness and Kevin Hartman of Holt graduated with a Master of Interior Architecture and Product Design from Kansas State University.
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August is Oral Health Awareness Month and many Missourians are working now to ensure community health improves in the future.
At some point in the late 1960s, you could be forgiven for thinking that the FBI was in charge of the KKK.
It has become routine: President Donald Trump spends a golfing break at one of his properties. Tragically, horrific gun massacres also have become part of the routine, two of them just the other weekend, one of them clearly the consequence of a white supremacist who had gone over the edge, armed with the most lethal handheld weapons of mass destruction.
There was a time when the left considered McCarthyism the worst of all political tactics. That was before it became useful to question Mitch McConnell's loyalty to his country.
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