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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Community Center is reaching out to help elderly residents sign up on the Clay County Public Health Center website for COVID-19 vaccinations. Center Executive Director Jesse Hall told city leaders during a late-January City Council work session on Zoom that the center had contacted and provided over-the-phone assistance to “those that are on hold that are 70 and over.” In addition, the center had provided in-person assistance, using social distancing, Hall said.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – City Finance Department Director Vonda Floyd has a clearer sense of what Orion will provide in managing the city’s golf course, she told city leaders during a late-January work session.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – On Jan. 22, the Excelsior Springs High School Student Council celebrated its court warming coronation.

JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Mike Parson said he supports a statewide prescription drug monitoring program to help combat the opioid epidemic.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Excelsior Springs Hospital is ready to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, but when the vaccine will arrive and what role the hospital will play are unknown, CEO Kristen DeHart told city leaders via Zoom.

WHITESBURG, Kentucky – Rural residents are more hesitant than their metropolitan counterparts to get a COVID-19 vaccination, though rural areas have higher infection and death rates from the virus, a new report states.

KANSAS CITY – The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped 1.3% from November to December, going to 5.8%, the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center reported. The estimated number of unemployed Missourians hit 180,137 in December.

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri National Guard will assist the Department of Health and Senior Services and others at COVID-19 vaccination sites statewide. Vaccine demand exceeds the state’s supply.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Community center members have a new membership option. On Jan.