The Excelsior Springs City Council looks different after Friday's special meeting swore in a new council member and selected a new mayor.

KANSAS CITY – Law enforcers found Trinton Phillips, 21, Excelsior Springs, with a fatal gunshot wound on the Price Chopper parking lot, 9717 N. Ash Ave., Kansas City, across from Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Liberty.

The Excelsior Springs School District of Clay and Ray counties has made a good case for voters to approve Proposition T, a tax issue that would not cause voters to pay more in taxes than they pay now.

We endorse the issue.

Under the proposal that voters will address at the polls June 2, the public could extend the existing tax levy to bring in another $23.5 million.

Overheating exhaust fans set off alarms that brought the ESFD to the Excelsior Springs High School Monday evening. 

At approximately 8 p.m., fire trucks from Excelsior Springs and Kearney arrived on the scene of the high school and found smoke coming from the school’s Family and Consumer Science room. They discovered exhaust fans over the stoves were left on and were overheating. The heat melted some of the plastic covering around the fans that created the smoke.