This Week's News

Cody Gray, Villisca, IA, led his horses Rex and Baldy. The team won second place. Gray has competed at the Pickering draft horse pull for 12 years. He wrangled his first team at age nine.

The announcer said, “Go.” Children ages two to 11 rush to pick up $600 in coins scattered onto Main Street, Ravenwood. Tri-State Ford and the Ravenwood Festival committee donated the money. This was a highlight of the August 5-6 Ravenwood Festival.

By Christina Rice The Nodaway County Humane Society donates puppies from the shelter to the Maryville Treatment Center to be trained by offenders for future work as service dogs and as family pets. The statewide program has its roots in an experiment conducted 15 years ago. Champs Corporation, St. Louis, approached Vandalia’s prison officials to

The Maryville R-II school district has implemented a new employee wellness plan. Melissa Coffelt, Maryville Middle School nurse, worked with school administrators to create a wellness committee. The committee will host activities every month to help reduce staff stress and increase camaraderie among co-workers, while lowering health costs for employees and the district. Some of

Northeast Nodaway Superintendent Jeff Mehlenbacher announced recently the purchase of 20 acres east of the school in Ravenwood. The parcel of ground is on the north side of Highway O and is east of the city park. It will allow walking accessibility from the school without having to cross the highway Mehlenbacher said. A future

By Kathryn Rice This is the first in a series on Nodaway Countians who have taken the repurposing and upcycling of old items to a unique level. “I work with steel and wood,” said Brian Hunt of Muddy Creek Designs, 17695 US Highway 71, Burlington Jct. “I haven’t found anything I can’t do.” Hunt’s items

Rodeo fans in southwest Iowa got a taste of freestyle bullfighting a year ago and they’re about to get even more. Bullfighters Only, an elite team of bullfighters, will showcase nine members during a five-night battle in Sidney, at Iowa’s Championship Rodeo, Tuesday, August 2 through Saturday, August 6. “The committee told me last year

Three residents claimed the Farm Animal Ordinance was not legal at the August 1, Pickering City Council meeting. The trio received letters and a copy of the ordinance after a complaint about a pig was filed with Mayor Charles Smith. The citizens claimed the ordinance was illegal because two members of the same household, Bill

Hopkins City Council approved the web domain hopkinsmogov.com at its August 1 meeting. The website is up and Dee O’Riley, city clerk, will continue to update the site, which is run through the Missouri Rural Water Association. The domain name was acquired through godaddy.com and will cost the city $14.99 per year. Two residences with

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