Supporters of Northwest Missouri State University – including alumni and friends, students, faculty, staff and community members – will come together Thursday, June 15, to celebrate the long-awaited groundbreaking of a facility designed to enhance the face of the university, and many of those individuals will surely beam with pride for the role they’ve played
The Maryville City Council approved a new school resource officer during the regular meeting on June 12. Maryville Public Safety Officer Ian Myers will assume the position of school resource officer with the Maryville R-II School District. The district agrees to pay 75 percent of his salary, covering the nine months of the year he
The Delta Nu alumni chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon donated $1,000 to the Lettuce Dream Foundation June 1 as part of their Good Neighbor Program. The group plans to donate to a local nonprofit organization every quarter. Lettuce Dream was the inaugural donation. Lettuce Dream, a hydroponics facility, grows and sells varieties of lettuce and
The Northwest Missouri Area Agency on Aging is seeking volunteer drivers in Nodaway County to take older adults to non-emergency medical appointments. These appointments, besides medical, include dental, vision, hearing and chiropractic. Volunteer benefits include: • Mileage, currently 51¢ per mile, and parking reimbursement. • Supplemental insurance • Emergency travel kit • Volunteer recognition •
Today’s Civic Women is collecting children’s coats from sizes 3T to small adult. TCW is hoping to acquire coats from summer garage sales for use by school children this fall and winter. The Koats for Kids program has been an ongoing enterprise for the organization. Coat collection points in Maryville are the Nodaway News Leader,
Nodaway County youth will be taking the stage this weekend for the Maryville Young Players (MYP) performances. Performances will be at the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts on the Northwest Missouri State University campus. They will be at 2 and 7 pm, Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11. MYP is an opportunity
Anticipation and excitement is higher than ever as aspiring country music artists prepare to compete for the 36th annual Country Showdown. Local radio Pick-up Country, KNIM, will again hold the Country Showdown preliminaries at 7 pm, Saturday, June 10 on the square in Maryville. This year’s local contestants are Shelby Bever, Guilford; Tammy Dredge Hickman,
At the June 5 meeting of the Hopkins City Council, it was decided not to pursue a procedure to remove a dangerous, substandard building. To pursue building removal, City Attorney Taryn Henry had compiled a guide and necessary forms. Upon review, the council decided it would be cost prohibitive. The information Henry gathered will be
On June 3, country band Big Time Grain Co. made a big-time splash as the first act of the June concert series held at the Donaldson Amphitheater, Maryville. The band presented a $250 donation to Maryville Young Players as their way of supporting local art. Accepting the check from the band were Briley Henggeler, Annika
At the June 5 meeting of the Pickering City Council, discussion was held on three blocked tubes on Sixth and Railroad Streets which are causing problems for traffic. The streets lie on the outskirts of town. Mayor Charles Smith thought that one of the tubes was on a township road, so it was decided that
