The Maryville Public Safety Department recently ordered new ballistic helmets and high-velocity ballistic plates from Southern Uniform and Equipment, Carthage, for $18,580. Sergeant Ryan Glidden applied for the Gladys Rickard Charitable Trust fund. His application was approved which allowed for the purchase of 20 plate and helmet sets, one for each officer. The helmets are
The Nodaway County Sheriff’s Department re-instated the county’s DARE board which met on February 6. Officer Rick Smail retired from Maryville Public Safety this winter and was hired to lead the county wide DARE program. The board was abolished eight years ago, freezing the program’s monetary assets within the county budget. The start of the
Two new employees recently joined the Nodaway News Leader team. Annette Mullins Annette Mullins joins the NNL staff as the advertising designer, creating ads for our clients with a flare of creativity. She has worked more than 25 years at Rush Printing as a graphic designer and continues to work there in addition to the
By Jacki Wood With a desire to improve her English and learn about American culture, Isabel Metzger left the city life of Solingen, Germany, last August and immersed herself in the rural life of Hopkins as an exchange student at North Nodaway. “I wanted to improve my English and learn about the different culture and
By Kathryn Rice Sabrina Theas has taken her love of crafting and making presents for friends and relatives to the next level and has opened On the Spot Designs, 215 West Fifth Street, Maryville. Theas took the leap of faith knowing that no business in Maryville offered custom gifts and opened her shop in October
Elis Õunapuu, a 17-year-old exchange student at Maryville High School, arrived last fall in Missouri from her hometown of Polva, Estonia. “(Polva) is kind of the same as Maryville,” Elis said. “A lot of green areas and a small lake in the middle of the town. Also, the population is almost the same.” Estonia, formerly
Sixteen-year-old “Mint” Pitchakorn Chitpiboonsuk calls Nonthaburi, Thailand, home. But during the 2016-17 school year, she’s living in Conception Jct. and attending high school at Jefferson. Nonthaburi has a population of 539,504 but is part of the city of Bangkok which has a population of 6.355 million. street vendors, tok-tok and temples “It’s a very big
Jenny Ahlgrimm describes her hometown of Hamburg, Germany, as “big, modern and busy.” With a population of 1.7 million, it’s sure to be a bit different from Maryville, where she is living during the 2016-17 school year as an exchange student. But calling it a bit different might be an understatement. “Pretty much everything is
They were once small shards of shattered glass, fragile remnants of a raging hail storm. Today, they are beautiful pieces of art gently handcrafted by a Benedictine Sister of Perpetual Adoration. When a hail storm converged on Northwest Missouri in August 2011, it left behind a wake of destruction, including the shattering of dozens of
By Jacki Wood The last stop on the 2016 Christmas tour takes us down to Kansas City where you can add a little holiday fun to your last-minute Christmas shopping. Plaza Lights After a day of shopping and eating at the Country Club Plaza, make sure you stick around to enjoy the miles and miles
