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Post Office conducts food drive Saturday

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Post Office will collect food for community members in need Saturday, acting Officer in Charge Kat Bollinger said Monday. “We’re not supplying bags this year,” Bollinger said.

Gatsby gang shows community spirit

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Enthusiastic participants make the Gatsby Day celebration in downtown Excelsior Springs happen, event organizer Crystal Keeton says. While poet Shannon Morgan shares her poem about a frog and a toad, Keeton surveys the Hall of Waters circle drive, where the day is centered.

WITHOUT missing a note, electric guitar soloist Johnny Garrett shifts to playing with his teeth.

AIR IN THE HAIR AT CITY HEALTH FAIR

4 years ago By News Staff

ON A BLUSTERY SATURDAY in the Excelsior Springs Community Center parking lot, community members take advantage of health screenings and other information – and freebies. Getting freebies, from left, are the Saunders sisters – Margaret, 4; Charlotte, 7; and Amelia, 7. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA

Excelsior Springs seniors hold parade of graduates

4 years ago By Emily Rice

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – What began in 2020 during the pandemic has become an annual rite of passage in Excelsior Springs. The High School Senior Parade will take place at 5 p.m.

THE 2021 Excelsior Springs High School Senior Parade includes Emily Milledge.

Clay, Platte counties, state of Kansas each charge Excelsior Springs resident with various crimes

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – More felony charges have been filed against Joshua Edward McCoy, 31, Excelsior Springs. McCoy faces mostly felony bad check charges, which have been filed in Clay and Platte counties in Missouri, and Johnson County in Kansas.

Hospital closes COVID clinic

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Hospital drive-through COVID clinic closed Sunday. During an April 15 work session at the Hall of Waters, hospital CEO Kristen DeHart told city leaders the clinic would close, citing a decrease in COVID cases.

City seeks more road maintenance money

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city could receive up to $57,878 more to help with road projects, thanks to an agreement between Excelsior Springs and the Mid-America Regional Council. Approved April 18 by the City Council at the Hall of Waters, the agreement makes the city a participant in the Missouri Preventive Maintenance Program, overseen by MARC.

Police make arrest following bank robbery

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Crime does not pay, especially when the law and gangster Al Capone are out to deliver justice on the mean streets of downtown Excelsior Springs. During Gatsby Day on April 30, several people drafted by event organizers to entertain guests execute a heist at the old bank, now the Excelsior Springs Museum and Archives, 101 E.

ROBBERS Alinah Dodd, 15; and Robert Bowman, 18, skedaddle. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff

Mushroom hunter finds human remains

4 years ago By News Staff

HENRIETTA – New information is available about human remains discovered in rural Ray County.

“We had a mushroom hunter go out into a rural part of the county” and came upon skeletal remains April 27, Sheriff Scott Childers said Monday.

No location for the discovery is being released, Childers said.

“I don’t want people going out that way looking themselves,” he said.

Couple receives award for preservation work

4 years ago By News Staff

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Kevin and Sonya Morgan received the McReynolds Award from the Missouri Alliance for historic preservation for their long-term work promoting historic preservation in Excelsior Springs and Clay County.

AT THE AWARD ceremony, from left, are Kevin Morgan, state Rep. Doug Richey and Sonya Morgan.

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