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PLEASANT VALLEY – Sheriff Will Akin opened the Community Drug Education Summit with the reason for calling together law enforcers, mental health specialists and the public: “We are investigating an unprecedented number of cases involving deaths due to drug overdoses. We’re talking about teens and young adults here.” A DRUG HUB Poorly made, deadly drugs – primarily fentanyl, a synthetic opioid – flow into Ray, Clay and Jackson counties.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city has relinquished rights-of-way in Lookout Heights. The City Council passed two ordinances vacating rights-of-way in the subdivision Dec.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS– The city adopted three of the International Code Council’s 2018 building codes when the City Council convened Dec. 6 at the Hall of Waters.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Residents might get to discuss eliminating the city’s ordinance on pit bulls with city leaders and each another. In his report during a Dec.

JEFFERSON CITY – Under legislation filed by state Sen. Denny Hoskins, R- Warrensburg, illegal gaming devices now in use in businesses and clubs would be replaced with regulated and transparent video lottery terminals, VLTs, overseen by the Missouri Lottery Commission.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city awarded $15,000 in community grants last month. The Downtown Excelsior Partnership received a $2,500 grant and two for $1,500 each.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The coronavirus “is back, stronger than ever,” hospital CEO Kristen DeHart reminded city leaders during a Dec. 3 work session.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Made possible by a grant administered by the Missouri State Library, Mid-Continent Public Library offers Chromebook laptops for customers to check out and take home. Chromebook Kits can be checked out for up to two weeks with two renewal periods, if there are no “holds” from other customers waiting to check them out.

LAWSON – World War II veteran Lindell Jarman, Lawson, celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by family on Thanksgiving. Having spent three years in college, Jarman, then 21, volunteered for service July 30, 1942, in Kansas City, Kansas, based on National Archives information.