This Week's News

Northeast Nodaway

The Northeast Nodaway School District presented 18 graduates with their diplomas the afternoon of May 9. Salutatorian Angela Standiford and Valedictorian Anne Schieber gave speeches during the ceremony.  

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NCED hosts pop-up stores for local businesses

Nodaway County Economic Development has opened up a pop-up store in the previous location of the Maryville License Bureau, 408 North Market. Wells Locally Sourced Meats from Barnard, will be offering steaks, roasts, ground beef and other special orders from 11 am to 4 pm, or until they sell out on Friday, May 7. Then

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Mosaic president urges vaccination to bring life back to normal

By Nate Blackford, Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville president Three weeks ago, we took a moment as a health system to celebrate. After 383 days, we had a brief moment with zero COVID inpatients. We knew the pandemic was not over but felt like it was a milestone worth celebrating. However, since then our system

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Geography with Goudge

“The NFL Draft concluded this past weekend after picking 259 players over 7 rounds, representing 39 states and Canada.  This per capita map displays The ‘Pigskin Cult’ or Deep South producing the greatest number of elite football players.  Two conferences, the SEC (25%) and Big Ten (19%), accounted for 44% of the players drafted.  The

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Citizens question MPR board on park, programs procedures

On April 19, the Maryville Park and Recreation (MPR) board held their monthly meeting to attend to business as well as hear department reports. Russ Schuster, citizen, addressed the board voicing his concerns about the youth soccer program including: “Why is MPR not utilizing park fields and playing on the new pitch at Northwest?” “What

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Nodaway-Holt approves TEAM effort

The Nodaway-Holt Board of Education approved TEAM or Trojan Educators Achieving More for implementation in the 2021-22 school year at the board meeting, April 21. Elementary Principal Shawn Emerson presented the proposal which will allow creativity in the extracurricular activities available for students. “The purpose of TEAM is to encourage teacher participation outside the normal

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GS Troop 3375 beautifies Mozingo Youth Camp with Silver Project

Girl Scout Troop 3375 recently completed landscaping around the Mozingo Youth Camp community building at Mozingo Lake and Recreation Park. The scouts who worked on the project are Joslin Ungles, Samantha Metcalf, Dalylah Rybolt and Shayleigh Rybolt. The troop uses the youth camp for different scouting events and noticed the landscaping needed updating. There were

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Geography with Goudge

“The 2020 NCAA Women’s Volleyball National Championship was held this past weekend in Omaha, NE.  Kentucky won for the first time and became the first SEC school to win a title.  Over the course of 40 years (1981-2020) only eleven different teams have been crowned champions.  During the first 19 years (1981-1999) schools with a

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