The NOCOMO Industries Board of Directors heard Workshop Manager Nicki Samson discuss what is happening in Missouri’s sheltered workshops at the September 28 meeting. Samson had received the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education quarterly report on sheltered workshops. In the state, 75 workshops had COVID cases, with seven now experiencing COVID-19 in the
Northwest Missouri State University’s Visiting Writers Series hosts Robert Long Foreman and Stefanie Wortman at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, at the Raymond J. Courter College Park Pavilion. The event is free and open to the public. Long Foreman is the recipient of a Pushcart prize for fiction and has published stories and essays in
The Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office DARE program received $4,800 from the Gary Taylor Charitable Trust, US Bank, NA trustee. Wealth Management Trust Advisor Courtney Jimenez presented DARE Officer Rick Smail with the check.
Nodaway County’s early pioneers were the settlers of The Reading Colony at Conception in 1858. The Reading Colony, originating in Pennsylvania, came to Conception via St. Joseph. Many of those people were of Irish descent with surnames of Brady, McCarthy, Growney, Sullivan, Fagan and Reilly. Reverend James Power and William Brady laid out the town
The Masons will have an installation of officers beginning at 7:30 pm, Monday, October 11 at the Lodge.
The Northwest Missouri Beebusters will once again start monthly meetings, with the first beginning at 7 pm, Monday, October 11 at the Laura Street Baptist Church, 120 South Laura, Maryville. Anyone who is interested in bees is welcome to attend.
The Maryville City Council voted to approve the $44,866,555 budget for FY2021-22 that began October 1 during its special meeting September 30. The new financial plan for the city is the largest ever in Maryville’s history. Yet there are several other facets to the coming year’s revenues and expenditures that are to be determined later
American Legion Post 100 and Scout Troops 190 and 74 will serve breakfast from 8 am to noon, Sunday, October 10 at the post located at 1104 East Fifth Street. The menu will be biscuits and gravy, pancakes, eggs, sausage, hashbrowns, orange juice, coffee and milk. Adults are $8, children six and under are $5.
American Legion Post 464 is hosting a pancake breakfast from 7 to 11 am, Sunday, October 10 at the post in Conception Jct. The menu is pancakes, sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, juice and coffee. Carryout is available. There is a $7 minimum donation per person. Children six and under are free. Proceeds will go
A blood drive will be held from 2 to 6:30 pm, Thursday, October 14 in honor of Gordon Wiederholt at the Ravenwood Community Building, 114 West Hawk Street. Gordon, who just turned four years old, was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). One in 4,344 children are born with HLHS, while one in 100
