The Major League Baseball playoffs are in full swing with the Division Series going on. The map displays, ‘The South’, dominating per capita production of elite baseball players along with higher values in western states. California alone, accounting for 140 or nearly 17% of all or 840 players. The Dominican Republic with 91 is second,
The final two sculptures have been installed in the downtown Maryville area. The sculptures are selected by the Maryville Public Arts Committee and the installation will be celebrated at Arts, Rhythms and Brews from 1 to 4 pm, Saturday, October 23. Another sculpture from Jeff Satter entitled “Spectrum” has been installed in the Downtown Pocket
Presiding Judge Roger Prokes has notified Missouri Governor Michael Parson and Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson of his retirement plans to exit the Fourth District Circuit at the end of the work day, Tuesday, November 9. “This decision is driven by my turning 70 years of age on the following day,” noted Prokes in his
The NOCOMO Industries Board of Directors heard Workshop Manager Nicki Samson discuss what is happening in Missouri’s sheltered workshops at the September 28 meeting. Samson had received the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education quarterly report on sheltered workshops. In the state, 75 workshops had COVID cases, with seven now experiencing COVID-19 in the
Northwest Missouri State University’s Visiting Writers Series hosts Robert Long Foreman and Stefanie Wortman at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, at the Raymond J. Courter College Park Pavilion. The event is free and open to the public. Long Foreman is the recipient of a Pushcart prize for fiction and has published stories and essays in
The Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office DARE program received $4,800 from the Gary Taylor Charitable Trust, US Bank, NA trustee. Wealth Management Trust Advisor Courtney Jimenez presented DARE Officer Rick Smail with the check.
Nodaway County’s early pioneers were the settlers of The Reading Colony at Conception in 1858. The Reading Colony, originating in Pennsylvania, came to Conception via St. Joseph. Many of those people were of Irish descent with surnames of Brady, McCarthy, Growney, Sullivan, Fagan and Reilly. Reverend James Power and William Brady laid out the town
The Masons will have an installation of officers beginning at 7:30 pm, Monday, October 11 at the Lodge.
The Northwest Missouri Beebusters will once again start monthly meetings, with the first beginning at 7 pm, Monday, October 11 at the Laura Street Baptist Church, 120 South Laura, Maryville. Anyone who is interested in bees is welcome to attend.
The Maryville City Council voted to approve the $44,866,555 budget for FY2021-22 that began October 1 during its special meeting September 30. The new financial plan for the city is the largest ever in Maryville’s history. Yet there are several other facets to the coming year’s revenues and expenditures that are to be determined later
