Month: May

Geography with Goudge

This week’s map is a proportional symbol map displaying current NCAA Div. I Collegiate Baseball Rankings.  Tennessee, Oregon State, Virginia Tech, Stanford and Texas Tech lead the way.  Seventeen of the twenty-five teams are located in the Deep South.  Southeastern dominance along with PAC-12 teams correlate with traditional baseball hotbeds.  This pattern is very similar

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Museum sponsors Burns House Tours, tea

Visitors are invited to tour the Caleb Burns House and enjoy an afternoon tea from 2 to 4 pm, Sunday, May 22 at the Nodaway County Historical Society and Museum, 110 North Walnut Street, Maryville. Constructed around 1846, the home is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and located across the street from

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Ravenwood holds community breakfast

The Ravenwood Community Breakfast will be from 8 am to noon, Sunday, May 22 at the Ravenwood Community Center. The “all you can eat” meal features eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, biscuits and gravy and pancakes. Adults are $10 and children are $5. Proceeds will go toward playground equipment for the city park.

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May 17, 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 commissioner and Melinda Patton, county clerk. Burns made a motion to approve the agenda as presented. The motion passed. Burns made a motion to approve prior commission minutes

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Oak Pointe hosts open house

Oak Pointe will be hosting an open house from 2 to 4 pm, Saturday, May 21 to celebrate its seventh anniversary. There will be hors d’oeuvres, drinks and live music. Oak Pointe is located at 817 South Country Club Road, Maryville.

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Big Lake Creek Campground reopens

Since March 2019, the campground at Big Lake State Park has been closed due to major flood damage. As soon as repairs to the damaged levee were completed, work began on reopening the park’s campsites. Thanks to Big Lake State Park team members and the Missouri State Parks northern construction crews’ hard work cleaning and

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Nodaway County churches sponsor ‘Christmas in the Summertime’

Applications for the “Christmas in the Summertime” clothing project will be accepted at Community Services, 1212 South Main Street, Maryville, now through Monday, June 20. Students who qualify to participate in this program must be in kindergarten through 12th grade and enrolled in a Nodaway County school for the upcoming 2022-23 school year. Registration for

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JoAnn Cooper

JoAnn Cooper, 89, Stanberry, died Monday, May 16, 2022, at a Stanberry nursing home. She was born April 10, 1933, in Andrew County, to Ray and Mildred Lee House Stanton. She was a 1951 graduate of Rosendale High School. On May 4, 1951, she married Eugene Cooper in Maryville. He preceded her in death on

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Wilma Jean Miles

Wilma Jean Miller Miles, 89, Lamar, formerly of Maitland, died Monday, May 16, 2022, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin. She was born April 30, 1933, in Watson, to Herbert William and Ruby Mae Robinson Miller. She graduated from Maitland High School and had lived in the area all her life. On February 14, 1952, she

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