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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city is again calling on Lamp Rynearson to oversee road maintenance and repairs. On April 4, the City Council approved Public Works Director Chad Birdsong’s request to hire the multiservice company for $47,400 for engineering work on this year’s milling, overlay and repair projects.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Downtown Excelsior Partnership, or DEP, received $50,000 to allocate grants for external building improvements downtown. On April 4 at the Hall of Waters, the City Council approved the money for the DEP’s Façade Program.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – City leaders want to refine Excelsior Springs’ rules governing dangerous dogs before possibly repealing a decades-old pit bull ban. An ordinance repealing the ban was on the agenda for Monday night’s City Council meeting at the Hall of Waters.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Missouri Department of Transportation will start pavement repairs on U.S. 169, north and south, between Route KK and 200th Street at the Clinton County line from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday until April 29.

RICHMOND – COVID-19 numbers are down – way down – from earlier this year in Ray County. Numbers are down statewide, too.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Cultural Guild’s Annual Gatsby Day Festival to raise scholarship funds returns from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Patrons and volunteers occupied every row among rummage sale tables filling the expansive floor of the former Excelsior Trust/Boatman’s Bank building at South Street and Thompson Avenue.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Wild Bunch is doing a wild bunch of business at 1218 N. Jesse James Road, in the former Diggers/Trade Fair building.

THE TROLLIES are running in Excelsior Springs. On Saturday, this one carries people around downtown for the Hop and Shop. The other two trollies carry guests on the Easter Bunny Trolley Scavenger Hunt, which involves driving around town, including at the community center, while following clues for those hunting the Easter Bunny. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA

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