Month: May

Nodaway Valley boys place 2nd at 275 Conference meet

  The 275 Conference track meet was held May 3 in Rock Port and saw the Nodaway Valley boys place 2nd behind three conference championships from sophomore Riley Blay. Additionally, the Platte Valley girls placed 3rd and the boys took 4th while the Nodaway Valley girls placed 6th, the Northeast Nodaway boys placed eighth, the

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Garden Club to have plant and bake sale

The Maryville Garden Club will hold a plant and bake sale from 7 to 11 am, Saturday, May 7 at the Nodaway County Senior Center, 1210 East First Street, Maryville. There will be vegetable plants, daylilies, hostas, shrubs, annuals and perennials.

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Hounds take boys MEC championship

The Maryville Spoofhounds hosted the 2022 MEC track championships May 3. The boys team earned the championship with 209 points while the girls team finished fourth with 117 points.  

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North Central Missouri College Commencement is May 7

North Central Missouri College 2022 Commencement will be held on May 7 with two ceremonies; the morning ceremony begins at 9 am honoring all associate degrees and certificates that are non-nursing, and the afternoon ceremony begins at 1 pm honoring nursing certificates, degrees and pinnings. Both commencement ceremonies will be held at the Ketcham Community

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May 3, 2022

Presiding Commissioner Bill Walker called the meeting of the Nodaway County Commission to order at the commissioner’s office. In attendance: Walker, Chris Burns and Scott Walk, associate commissioners and Melinda Patton, county clerk. Burns made a motion to approve the agenda as presented. The motion passed. Walk made a motion to approve prior commission minutes

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Jack Otte

Jack Lowell Otte, 97, Maryville, died Friday, April 29, 2022, in Maryville. Mr. Otte has been cremated under the care of the Bram Funeral Home, Maryville. His memorial service will be at 10:30 am, Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Bram Funeral Home, Maryville. Visitation with the family will precede the funeral at 9:30 am.

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Betty Clement

Betty Margaret Clement, Augusta, GA, died Monday, May 2, 2022, at her home. She was born in Maryville to Pauline and Luther Jenson. She was married to Richard Clement. Mrs. Clement retired from the Richmond County Health Department in 1997. The family will receive friends from 12:30 to 2 pm, Thursday, May 5 at Trinity

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Daniel Smith 

Daniel Evan Smith, 59, Maryville, died Monday, May 2, 2022, at his home in Maryville. He was born February 21, 1963, in Big Spring, TX, to Mathew Smith and Sandra Byrne. He earned degrees from The College of William and Mary, The University of Virginia School of Law and Rutgers University. On November 12, 1988,

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Lucile Chesnut

Lucile Beason Chesnut, 95, Maryville, died Sunday, May 1, 2022, at the Maryville Living Center, Maryville. She was born June 21, 1926, in Clearmont, to Ralph and Lois Houston Shields. On November 19, 1946, she married Richard Beason. He preceded her in death in 1992. She married Howard Chesnut in 1994. He died in 1997.

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Geography with Goudge

The NFL Draft concluded this past weekend after picking 262 players over 7 rounds, representing 38 states and Australia, Austria, and Canada.  This per capita map, displays The ‘Pigskin Cult’ or Deep South producing the greatest number of elite football players.  Two conferences, the SEC (25%) and Big Ten (18%), accounted for 43% of the

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