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Three candidates sought one Excelsior Springs City Council seat. Mark Spohn won the council seat easily.

AT EXCELSIOR SPRINGS Nursing and Rehabilitation, Sadie Pahich turns 100 years old on March 25. “We had a big cake, music played for her, and there were family and friends that came as well. She was happy, surprised. She had a good time,” the center’s business director, Melissa L. McConnell, says. Pahich has lived at the center since 2018.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Historic Preservation Commission accepts nominations for their Historic Preservation Awards Program until 5 p.m. April 13.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Art meets history during the Cooley Lake Art Show opening at 6 p.m. April 8 at the Excelsior Springs Museum and Archives.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – City staff installed an eco-conscious sculpture at Century Park, Mayor Sharon Powell told city leaders during a March 18 work session at the Hall of Waters. A large depiction of a flower, the piece is crafted “completely of recycled playground equipment,” Powell said.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The City Council agreed to a bid by Presley Solutions of Liberal, Kansas, for a new irrigation system pump panel for the golf course. Three companies vied for the project, Head Golf Course Superintendent Frank Conrick told city leaders.

A FUNNEL stinger, a bottle and two golf balls on stems buzz around Century Park’s new flower sculpture. Learn more on Page 2.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city continues to consider eliminating decadesold legislation banning pit bulls. A public forum, or “listening post,” occurred at 6 p.m.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Some city agencies freed space to store records. Per a resolution passed March 21 by the City Council at the Hall of Waters, the Excelsior Springs Police Department received permission to shred some records March 25.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Students from Excelsior Springs Middle School will share poems from 6 to 8 p.m. April 8 at the Bohemian Sage Gallery, and a published poet from Kansas City will attend, based on information from teacher Gina Calvin.