Pickering discusses town’s improvements

At the July 3 Pickering City Council meeting, aldermen, the mayor and city clerk discussed the current status of improvement projects. The park project is “pretty well done” said City Clerk Milt Sovereign. To water the planted grass, Alderman Kevin Leedom worked out an arrangement with the Public Water Supply District to put the amount

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Stem activities round out HM summer school

The last two weeks of the Horace Mann Laboratory School summer school saw the prekindergarten through sixth grade students learning about velocity and lift. The week of June 26, the students created launchers and experimented to test the designs and make them even better. On the last day of school June 29, the students gathered

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Vince Tobin

Vince Tobin, 79, Goodyear, AZ, died Monday, July 3, 2023. Services are pending at Price Funeral Home, Maryville.

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Braxton Salcedo

Braxton Tyler Salcedo, 27, San Luis Obisbo, CA, died Thursday, June 29, 2023, in San Luis Obisbo. He was born November 13, 1995, in Merriam, KS, to John V. Salcedo and Valerie Dack.  He graduated from Maryville High School in 2014, and from the University of Missouri/Columbia in 2021, with a bachelor of science degree in

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Dorothy Wilmes

Dorothy Ann Meyer Wilmes, 91, Maryville, formerly of Ravenwood, died Monday, July 3, 2023, at Nodaway Nursing Home, Maryville. She was born December 13, 1931, at Clyde, to Peter Leo and Agatha Mary Wolfer Meyer. She lived all her life in Andrew and Nodaway Counties. On October 4, 1950, she married Leo A. Wilmes at

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Lavelle Rickabaugh

Lavelle Rickabaugh, 105, Maryville, died Friday, June 30, 2023, at Nodaway Nursing Home, Maryville. He was born April 22, 1918, to Albert F. and Nina F. Henson Rickabaugh in Worth County. On May 19, 1939, he married Dorothy J. Fakes in Maryville. She preceded him in death August 17, 2007. Mr. Rickabaugh served in the

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Gene Stiens

Harold Eugene “Gene” Stiens, 89, Maryville, died Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at the Maryville Living Center. He was born January 7, 1934, to Frederick Henry and Margaret Helen Growney Stiens east of Maryville. Mr. Stiens farmed all his life. He was a member and attended St. Gregory Barbarigo Catholic Church, Maryville. Mass of Christian burial

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Raymond Hanna

Raymond Edison Hanna, Maryville, passed away on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, at Mosaic Life Care, St. Joseph. He was 88. Ray was born in Clearmont, on July 15, 1934, to Edison and Bernice Hollensbe Hanna. They preceded him in death. Ray attended the Elm Grove School, then in 1952 graduated from Horace Mann High School

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Nodaway-Holt welcomes new high school principal

  Nate Jeter took over the role of Nodaway-Holt’s high school principal on July 1, with Mike Hollingsworth becoming the district’s superintendent. Jeter graduated from Nodaway-Holt in 2006, and would go on to earn a bachelor’s of science in biology from Peru State College, Peru, NE, as well as his master of science in biology

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