Meet our Staff

 

Lisa Dalton

Lisa Dalton is the advertising manager.  She started at the Nodaway News Leader on day 1, March 4, 1996. There are many duties that Lisa completes at the NNL. She creates marketing campaigns for clients, internet advertising, subscription data and also does the day-to-day bookkeeping duties for the company.

 

She has been in the advertising field for almost 30 years. Lisa was an advertising representative for the Penny Press before starting at the NNL.

 

“I really enjoy my job here at the Nodaway News Leader. I have formed good friendships with a lot of my clients and have seen a lot of changes over the years. I feel very fortunate to love coming to work every day and I have the best group of clients and co-workers to spend my days with,” said Lisa.

 

Lisa is a native of the Maryville area and now resides in Bedford, IA, with her husband of almost 30 years. They have three grown children and four grandchildren. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her grandchildren.

Contact Lisa: ldalton@nodawaynews.com, 660.562.4747 or 660.562.4421.

 

Scott Erickson

Scott Erickson covers sports and schools and is the photographer for the Nodaway News Leader. A native of Raytown, Erickson graduated from the University of Central Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in photography in 1996. While at UCM, he worked as a photographer for the University’s Public Relations Photographic Services, photographing Mule athletics and campus events. Upon graduation, he immediately went to work, spending six years as a corporate photographer for Reliable Automotive in Overland Park, KS, before relocating to Maryville where he began working at the NNL in 2003 while opening a wedding and portrait photography business.

 

Erickson has a passion for photography and sports and is a lifelong fan of the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs.

 

He has a daughter, Savannah. They both reside in Maryville.

 

Contact Scott: serickson@nodawaynews.com or 660-562-4747.

 

Dustin Henggeler

Dustin is a Maryville native who graduated from Maryville High School in 2005. Later graduating from Northwest Missouri State University with a bachelor of science in English and a writing minor, Dustin was hired part-time at the Nodaway News Leader in 2008 as a sports reporter and photographer.

 

Moving to full-time in 2011, Dustin added feature stories, school boards and city councils to his weekly lineup as well as his occasional column, “Calling the Shots.” Dustin also has the weekly duty of page layout where he helps put the Nodaway News Leader’s finished product together.

 

Married to Miranda Money, a 2004 West Nodaway graduate, Dustin and Miranda have recently been blessed with an addition to their family: Isabelle Marie Henggeler. The three reside in Maryville, the town that will always be home to Dustin.

 

Dustin was awarded the Missouri Press Association Outstanding Young Journalist of 2010 award. He can be reached at dustin@nodawaynews.com.

 

Lisa Rogers

Since 2005, Lisa Rogers has worked part-time at the Nodaway News Leader, handling both proofreading and layout design responsibilities.

 

She also works as an independent insurance claims biller for local healthcare providers and has stayed on at the NNL because she enjoys the team she works with each week.

 

Lisa earned a degree in business management from Northwest Missouri State University.

 

She has three children and resides in Maryville.

 

Tiffany Whipple

Tiffany Whipple joined the Nodaway News Leader in 2005 and is responsible for advertising design, writing the “This Week in History” column, website maintenance and representing businesses with their marketing campaigns.

 

She graduated from Maryville High School in 1998 and received her bachelor of science degree in business management from Northwest Missouri State University in 2002. Later in 2008, she completed her marketing degree and recently earned a master’s degree in instructional education, all from Northwest.

 

Tiffany currently resides in Hopkins with her family. She loves to read, take long walks and spend time with her family.

 

Contact Tiffany: tiffany@nodawaynews.com, call 660.562.4747 or 660.562.0516.

 

Kay Wilson

Kay Wilson has had newspapering as her career field for all of her working life.

 

The Nodaway County native began her career at Northwest Missouri State University on the Northwest Missourian staff as a reporter and then for four semesters as the campus newspaper’s advertising manager. After graduation with a bachelor of science in English-journalism, Wilson began work in 1977 at The Hopkins Journal, Nodaway County’s oldest weekly newspaper, as the advertising manager.

 

She was also the editor and sales manager of a monthly trade journal, Hereford Highlights, at the Penny Press Shopper as an advertising representative and advertising manager. Leaving the shopper experience, Wilson began at the Maryville Daily Forum as the advertising manager, then publisher.

 

Then in March 1996, she started a new weekly newspaper, Nodaway News Leader, which covers Nodaway County’s government entities and school news, including elementary and secondary levels, and currently has a subscription list of over 3,300.

 

Wilson lives on the family farm near Pumpkin Center along with her husband of 36 years, Norman Wilson. They have raised two sons, Matt, who holds a doctorate from University of Washington, Seattle and is teaching geographic information systems at University of Kentucky, Lexington and Dallas, who completed his bachelor of science at Northwest Missouri State University and is employed by the Missouri Department of Corrections.

 

Contact Wilson: 660.562.8635; kwilson@nodawaynews.com

 

Jacki Wood

Everybody has a story to tell, and for reporter Jacki Eckerson Wood, being able to share those stories is what she enjoys most about working at the Nodaway News Leader.

 

Jacki grew up in Maryville and graduated from Maryville High School in 1993.

 

After attending Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, and living in Los Angeles for a few years, she decided to return home to Missouri to raise her family. She and her husband have two children and live near Lock Springs.

 

She joined the NNL in 2006, and in addition to writing feature stories, she also covers school board and other public meetings, events and court. She writes the occasional column, “That they might have joy,” is in charge of social media (Facebook and Twitter) for the paper and helps proofread before printing.

 

She earned a BA in English from BYU and plans to graduate with a second degree, that is a bachelor of science in journalism, from Northwest Missouri State University in 2012.

 

An avid sports fan, especially college football and basketball, Jacki also enjoys keeping up with her BYU Cougars, reading, laughing, snow, peach rings, road trips and spending time with her family.

 

Contact Jacki: jwood@nodawaynews.com or 660.562.4747.