Geography with Goudge

Now that March is here (maybe spring will follow) it’s time to turn our attention to college basketball. This week’s AP Top 25 Poll is mapped by proportional symbols. Gonzaga leads the way, followed by Virginia, North Carolina, Duke and Tennessee. Gonzaga, in the west, is the lone exception to the traditional eastern basketball powers

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Nodaway County Senior Center needs volunteers

The Nodaway County Senior Center is looking for kitchen volunteers as well as volunteer drivers for the home-delivered meals program. The center needs volunteers in the kitchen from 9:45 to 11:15 am, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The duties include packing and sealing home delivered meals and filling the serving line with condiments and other items

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John Sinnett

John Michael Sinnett Jr., 81, North Kansas City, died Saturday, March 2, 2019, at his daughter’s home in Maryville. Memorial services are set for 11 am, Saturday, March 9, 2019, at the Antioch Community Church, 4805 NE Antioch Road, North Kansas City. The family will receive friends for one prior to services at the church.

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NCCA to meet

The Nodaway County Cattlemen’s Association will meet at 6:30 pm, Thursday, March 14 at the Northwest Technical School, Maryville. Guest speaker will be Nick Mertz of Cargill/Nutrena on the topic of cattle nutrition. The meal is provided.

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Lettuce Dream hosts salad luncheon

The Taste O’ Green Salad Luncheon will be from 11 am to 2:30 pm, Thursday, March 14 at the First United Methodist Church, 102 North Main Street, Maryville. Salads, hot rolls, desserts and drinks will be featured. Carry-out is available. Free will donations will be accepted at the door for Lettuce Dream.

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Memory Cafe provides social outing

Memory Cafe will be held from 10 to 11 am, Thursday, March 14 at the First United Methodist Church, 102 North Main Street, Maryville. The cafe is a social outing for people with memory loss and their care partners. Reservations are welcome, but not required. To register or for more information, call SSM Health at

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Library seeks book donations, hosts Book Nibblers

The Maryville Public Library is taking donations of used books for the Spring Used Book Sale the entire month of March. Donations may be brought to the cart in the library’s north lobby. The library will accept clean, gently used and in good condition hardback and paperback books, DVDs, audiobook CDs and music CDs for

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Whitnee Ice to speak at Northwest

The National Society of Leadership and Success at Northwest will have Whitnee Ice as one of its guest speakers this semester. She will be speaking at 6 pm, Wednesday, March 13 in the CJT building on Northwest Missouri State’s campus. Whitnee, a student at Northwest, was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome her freshman year of high

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Beebusters to meet

The Northwest Missouri Beebusters monthly meeting is from 7 to 9 pm, Monday, March 11 at the Nodaway County Administration Building. Anyone who is interested in bees is welcome to attend. For more information, visit the Facebook page, Northwest Missouri Beebusters.

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Democrats to gather

The Nodaway County Democrats monthly meeting will be from 6 to 8 pm, Monday, March 11 at the Wesley Student Center, 549 West Fourth Street, Maryville. For more information, contact Elyssa Ford at NodawayCountyDems@gmail.com.

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