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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The City Council set the tax levy Sept. 27.

WASHINGTON – The Oct. 3-9 Fire Prevention Week campaign “Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety!” is designed to educate everyone about the different sounds that smoke and carbon monoxide alarms make, based on National Fire Protection Association information.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Kansas City Cannabis held a grand opening Sept. 25 at 149 Crown Hill Road in the Crown Hill Shopping Center, next to VaporWyse.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – As the Oktoberfest crowd watches from along the sidewalks of downtown Excelsior Springs the afternoon of Sept. 25, the annual bed races get underway.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Fire Department’s ambulance service rates increased. On Sept.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city’s 25-year relationship with T-Mobile will continue following a brief hiccup. On Sept.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Missouri Press Association inducted the editor-inchief of The Excelsior Springs Standard and the Richmond News, Jack “Miles” Ventimiglia, into the Missouri Newspaper Hall of Fame on Sept. 24.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Police Department had two members involved in this year’s Sept. 11 memorial stair climb at the Town Pavilion in Kansas City: Ryan Dowdy and Samantha Nash.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – City water rates fall, but trash rates rise. On Sept.

RICHMOND – For the third time in as many years, The Richmond News, sister paper of The Excelsior Springs Standard, won the Missouri Press Association’s Gold Cup Sweepstakes Award. The newspaper achieved 13 first-place, 11 second-place, seven third-place and six honorable mention awards.