This Week's News

Senior Center looks to start maintenance projects

At the Nodaway County Senior Citizens Senate meeting on March 16, Vice President Joe Baumli told the board the senior center needs to “pull the trigger” on maintenance projects. “The longer we put it off, the more it will cost,” he said. This is the first meeting the board has had since January. The board

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Skidmore makes decision on water meters

At the March 10 Skidmore City Council meeting, the decision was made to purchase the fixed system water meters from USA Bluebook, Gurnee, IL, for a bid of 145 units and total of $61,601.92. The city will be able to purchase fewer meters. A final amount will be determined after figuring in manual shutoff locks,

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Sales tax revenues rebound in county

After two years of COVID-19 virus shopping irregularities, the sales tax revenues of Nodaway County are seeing an increase. Comparisons of January and February 2020 to 2022 show general sales tax from Nodaway County consumer spending across the board increasing from $377,665.34 in 2020 to $430,708.04 in 2022. This $53,042.51 is a 12 percent increase

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Skidmore council listens to water meter presentation

The Skidmore City Council listened to a presentation by Dan Pasternak, Zenner USA regional sales director, about the water meters in the USA Bluebook bid at the March 2 meeting. The bid is for 145 units and totals $61,601.92. Skidmore started the search for replacement water meters in 2019. At that time, the city had

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Pickering discusses importance of street tax levy

At the March 7 Pickering City Council meeting, the aldermen discussed the importance of residents voting yes on the $1 per $100 assessed valuation street tax levy at the April 5 election. The levy is voted on by the citizens every three years and is a “no-tax increase” levy. The money is used to maintain

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911 board speaks to future funding, new expansion

The 911 Oversight Board gathered March 8 with the agenda items being future funding possibilities and the expansion of services to a neighboring county. The board gathered in the Nodaway County Commissioners’ office with updates from the subcommittee that studied the potential funding of the county-wide service. Presently, Nodaway County and the City of Maryville

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Maryville businesses to participate in Spring Open House

Make it Maryville is sponsoring a Spring Open House from 9 am to 4 pm, Saturday, March 19 with several local businesses participating. “Make it Maryville understands our small businesses need a helping hand especially right now,” Holly Kay Cronk, Make it Maryville organizer and business owner, said. “It has been and is even more

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MHS presents spring production of ‘Nooses Off’

Trent Townsend, Brinley Conn, Kyle Stuart, Cassidy Kline, Emily Pearce, Monica Conover, Alex Peck, Lexi Hoskey, Mason Marriott and Lily Hansen set at the table during rehearsals for the Maryville High School spring play, “Nooses Off.” The production is a high school adaptation of the 1982 play “Noises Off” written by Michael Frayn. The plot

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Hopkins water tower fixed, other work to commence

At the March 7 Hopkins City Council meeting, Chief Operator Chris Bird announced he had adjusted the maintenance schedule for Maguire Iron, Inc., Sioux Falls, SD. The Hopkins water tower will have the interior wet renovation and steel work done this September instead of in 2023. This will increase the payment to Maguire from $5,000

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