As the NFL prepares for the Conference Championship games this weekend, the 2021 AP (Associated Press) NFL All-Pro Team was recently announced. This week’s map looks at the last five years of All-Pro players (179 total) based on where they went to high school. The ‘Best of the Best’ hailed, in order, from the Deep
The Spoofhound Youth Wrestling organization shared some of the winners of three recent youth wrestling competitions.
Contestants will compete in the Miss Northwest Pageants Extravaganza Saturday, January 29 and Sunday, January 30 in Maryville, with the ultimate goal of becoming Miss America and Miss America Outstanding Teen. The event will be held at 6:30 pm, Saturday, and 2 pm, Sunday, in the Ron Houston Center for Performing Arts at Northwest Missouri
As the 2021 college football season came to a close last week, we now have the All-Conference players per capita map. Just under eight percent, or 1,194 of the 15,341 FBS players made an All-Conference team. The region extending from Texas to the Carolinas, known as the ‘Pigskin Cult’, is highlighted containing 47% of the
Roberta A. Courtney, a former longtime Maryville resident, died Sunday, January 23, 2022. Roberta was born August 22, 1929, in Farragut, IA, to Bert Lightfoot and Gertrude Lind Lightfoot. As a child, she moved with her family to a farm in Burlington Jct. Roberta married Virgil Courtney on August 5, 1946, and they had 64
Gladys “Terry” West Winter, 99, died Friday, January 21, 2022. She was born January 23, 1922, in Manhattan, KS. She was married to Lt. Col. CV Winter, USAF. He preceded her in death in 1998. A Rosary will be held at 6:45 pm, Monday, April 18 followed by a visitation until 8 pm at Cullen
James Harold Tibbetts, 76, Newport, WA, died Thursday, January 13, 2022. He was born December 8, 1945, to Harold W. and Alma M. Wilbanks Tibbetts. He graduated from Ravenwood High School with the class of 1965. Mr. Tibbetts drove a truck for Stewart Sandwiches in Missouri and Washington. He later worked as an LPN in
The SB40 Board completed the 2021 year with a carryover balance of $41,472.24, which was announced at the January 11 quarterly meeting. Board President Larry Redford met in December with NOCOMO Industries Manager Nicki Samson who had completed the 2022 contract and was ready for the SB40 Board president and secretary to sign. Samson also
The Burlington Jct. city council heard from invited guests during its January 10 regular meeting. The council invited Suzanne Rasmussen to the meeting to discuss the alley by the Burlington Jct. Housing Corporation. She informed the council they had put in all new downspouts. The city is concerned, however, because the way they were installed
The Nodaway County Senior Services Fund Tax Board met on January 13 in the county’s Administrative Center to divide senior citizen tax monies. These monies were gathered from the 5¢ per $100 assessed valuation across Nodaway County. The tax has been collected annually since 2000, and each year, the senior services tax board designates the
