Month: October

Hopkins Council receives updates

The Hopkins City Council received updates from City Operator Chris Bird at the October 3 meeting. Bird said the building demolitions on Third Street were expected to take place by the end of October. The water plant electronic upgrade has been installed. Bird said everything was working. He is waiting on the company to do

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Clearmont Baptists celebrate their sesquicentennial

Organized on Saturday before the second Sunday in October, 1872, the Clearmont Baptist Church will celebrate its 150th year Sunday, October 9. The church body would like to invite the community, previous attendees and members plus anyone who worked on rebuilding the current church building after the fire in 2011 to join them in a

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New amenities come to the splash pad

Workers recently began putting up the shade structures at the Thomson Splash ‘n’ Play on Maryville’s South Munn Avenue to verify all will build smoothly. The shelters will be taken down during the off-season and winter months and then be put back up before opening next spring.

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South Main Phase II considered ‘shovel ready’

Maryville’s planned Phase II of the South Main Corridor Improvement Project has approved the final design, acquired right-of-way and easements, and has also received environmental NEPA clearance. Phase II will continue improvements south to Highway 71 with an expanded three-lane roadway, concrete curb and gutter, realigned and reduced access points and an enclosed storm sewer

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Geography with Goudge

MLB Players, 2022 The Major League Baseball playoffs are in full swing with the Wild Card Division Series going on. The map displays the West dominating per capita production of elite baseball players along with higher values in Southern states. California alone, accounting for 133 or nearly 16% of all of the 840 players. The

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Dogtown Fall Festival features local crafts, vendors

The Dogtown Fall Festival is sponsored by the Nodaway County Senior Center on October 1 saw the senior center filled with vendors and customers getting a head start on preparing for gift giving. Marla Messner and Dorry Florea are the “2 Crafty Sisters.” The duo, both from Maryville, offered fall decorating ideas. This was their

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Elaine Haist

Elaine Marie Haist, 79, Maryville, died Monday, October 3, 2022, at Mosaic Life Care – St. Joseph. She was born September 14, 1943, in Maryville, to Eldon Chesley McGeorge and Frances Elizabeth Guenther McGeorge. She was a South Nodaway High School graduate and later graduated with a business degree. On June 10, 1962, she married

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Sue McMichael

Glenda Sue McMichael, 80, Maryville, died Monday, October 3, 2022, at Mosaic Life Care – Maryville. She was born December 26, 1941, in Guilford, to William Ernest “Bill” Dudley and Ellen Alverta Sharp Dudley. On January 21, 1961, she married Francis David McMichael in Savannah. Mrs. McMichael was a devoted follower of the Jehovah’s Witness

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Rodney Vogel

Rodney Vogel, 63, Clarinda, IA, died Saturday, October 1, 2022, at Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville. He was born n July 28, 1959, in Shenandoah, IA, to Glen and Anita Bowenkamp Vogel. He was a 1977 graduate of West Nodaway High School. On May 30, 1981, he married Julia Lowrance Vogel. She preceded him in

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