Month: May

Memorial Service 2023 set at Walkup Grove Cemetery

A Memorial Service of Worship will be held at Walkup Grove Cemetery, Atchison County at 11 am, Sunday, May 28. The worship is sponsored by St. Oswald’s-in-the-Field Episcopal Church, with The Rt. Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, bishop provisional of west Missouri, and Fr. Sidney Breese presiding at this special service. Those in attendance should

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Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville launches Walk with a Doc program

Mosaic Medical Center-Maryville is encouraging Nodaway County residents to take a step toward better health with Walk with a Doc, a health program that brings doctors and patients together to walk at 12 pm, every second Wednesday on the walking path on the north end of the hospital. Walk with a Doc is an international

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May is Mental Health Month

Know the signs of stress The theme of 2023 Mental Health Awareness Month is “Look Around, Look Within,” says University of Missouri Extension Health and Safety Specialist Karen Funkenbusch. Surroundings affect mental health, says Funkenbusch, who works with MU Extension groups to promote mental health awareness in rural Missouri. For rural Missourians, surroundings may look

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Downtown Maryville Market opens May 20

The Downtown Maryville Market will open from 8 am to noon, Saturday, May 20 in the Nodaway Valley Bank parking lot, Fourth and Buchanan streets. This weekend Autumn Quimby, organizer, is expecting produce and fresh baked goods from veteran vendors plus new vendors with a variety of goods. Vendors must sell homemade or homegrown items

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Tri-C area holds annual cleanup

The Tri-C communities of Clyde, Conception Jct., Conception and surrounding rural area will hold the 13th Annual Dennis Frost Memorial Clean-Up Day from 8 am to noon, Saturday, May 20. This is sponsored by Tri-C Cart. Tires and siding are not accepted. Freewill donations are accepted.

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St. Gregory preschool hatches chicks

A St. Gregory Barbarigo School preschool class got the opportunity to incubate and hatch chicks in the last few weeks of school. Admiring a couple of the chicks are Blair Guthrie, Jameson Wilmes, Luke Pedersen and Co-teacher Danielle Phipps.

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Spoofhounds send two golfers to state

Sophomore Jack Dinsdale and Junior Ethan Scott both got the opportunity to play in the state golf tournament from May 15-16 at Meadow Lake Acres Country Club in New Bloomfield. More photos can be found on Page 20.

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2023 seniors celebrate in 6 county schools

Two happy people express their delight during the May 14 South Nodaway Class of 2023 graduation ceremony. Madelyn Swinford receives her diploma from her father, Pat Swinford, a SN board member. See graduation photos on Page 2 of this week’s paper.

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Tri-C holds clean-up day

The 13th Annual Dennis Frost Memorial Clean-up Day will be held from 8 am to noon, Saturday, May 20 for the residents of the Tri-C Community of Clyde, Conception and Conception Jct. and surrounding area. It is sponsored by the Tri-C Cart. Tires and siding are not accepted. Freewill donations are accepted. For questions, call

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Burlington Jct denies trucker parking at his residence

The Burlington Jct. City Council received citizens’ requests and staff reports at May 8 meeting. Mac McGinness had questions about the semi parking lot, and asked to be “grandfathered” in to allow parking at his residence, but the council denied his request. Carl Zimmer said that he has not received a water bill since the

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