Month: September

Geography with Goudge

This week’s map: FBS College Football Players, 2025 “The FBS or Football Bowl Subdivision consists of 133 teams that have been known as ‘Major College’ through the years.  This player production map, based on where the 14,826 FBS players attended high school, indicates a strong regional concentration in the ‘Deep South’.  This area, known as

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Larry Apple

Larry B. Apple, 80, Maryville, died Monday, September 1, 2025. He  was born March 13, 1945, to Welby Marvel Jr. and Phyllis Jean Westerlund Apple in Red Oak, IA. He was a 1963 graduate of Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, IA and attended Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville. On July 23, 1966, he married Joan

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Betty Spire

Betty Jean Spire, 74, Conception Jct., formerly of Clyde, died Thursday, August 28, 2025, at Mosaic Life Care – St. Joseph. She was born June 7, 1951, to Ruby Graham in Osceola, IA. She was raised by her grandparents, Arno and Helen Burk Graham, on a farm near Murray, IA, and graduated from Clarke Community

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Emery Dale Totten

Emery Dale Totten, 89, Maryville, died Thursday, August 28, 2025, at Nodaway Nursing Home. He was born November 19, 1935, to Howard and Edna Jewell Randall Totten, in Skidmore. He graduated in 1954 from Quitman High School. On April 14, 1957, he married Norma Jeanean Hagg in Barnard. Mr. Totten served two years in the

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Glenn “Joe” Jonagan

Glenn “Joe” Everett Jonagan, Jr, 83, Kansas City and formerly of Maryville and Albany, passed from this life at a hospice facility in Kansas City on August 28, 2025. Glenn was born October 24, 1941 in Ford City. He was the youngest son of Glenn Jonagan, Sr. and Mary Scott Jonagan. He was preceded in

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10 Squared Men donates to One Act

Ten Squared Men donated $14,500 to the One Act organization which helps Nodaway County school age children with hygiene items. At the presentation were 10 Squared representatives Brian Schieber, left, and Jeff Von Behren, right. In the center are One Act founder Samantha Raasch and Eugene Field Elementary nurse Makenzie Ramsey. Raasch said EFE is

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Nodaway Chorale starts fall rehearsal season

The Nodaway Chorale will launch its fall rehearsal season at 7 pm, Monday, September 8, at First Christian Church, Third and Buchanan Streets, Maryville. Rehearsals, in preparation for a December Holiday Concert, will continue each Monday from 7 to 9 pm at the same location. The Nodaway Chorale is a non-profit, non-audition, secular mixed voice

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St. Gregory Barbarigo Parish to break ground Sept. 7

St. Gregory Barbarigo Parish, Maryville, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday, September 7, marking a major milestone in its Faith Forward Capital Campaign. Parishioners and families have united to invest in the future of St. Gregory’s, with a primary focus on expanding space for Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS), the religion curriculum for

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Bearcats drop season opener

By Morgan Guyer The Northwest Missouri State Football squad opened their 2025 campaign August 28, falling to Minnesota State 14-38 in Mankato. The first game of the John McMenamin era got off to a rocky start, as the Bearcats saw themselves down 21-0 at halftime, and fell behind 35-0 halfway through the third quarter. Redshirt

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