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Celebrating National 4-H Week with three local youth

5 years ago By News Staff

4-H is an organization that empowers youth in STEM education, agriculture, healthy living and civic engagement. Projects that move towards career opportunities and real life experiences encourages youth to take steps forward that they may have thought impossible. Raising livestock, learning about the environment and how things in general work are part of the big picture that 4-H youth strive to achieve. Celebrate National 4-H week as we highlight some of the areas 4-H youth and their submitted stories below.

Hear the stories from Trinity Thomas, Dantin McBee and Malia Fairchild

County audit in ‘coma’ status

5 years ago By News Staff

JEFFERSON CITY – Those who want Clay County audit information must wait. The audit is in “coma status,” meaning results will not be shared until after the Nov.

National 4-H Week from Oct. 4-10

5 years ago By News Staff

RICHMOND – The National 4-H Council has created this year’s theme for National 4-H Week, Opportunity-4All, to rally support for Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program and identify solutions to eliminate the opportunity gap that affects 55 million youngsters across America.

Missouri bicentennial group creating time capsule

5 years ago By News Staff

COLUMBIA– The State Historical Society of Missouri and the St. Louis Ambassadors seek public participation to develop a bicentennial time capsule containing items that document Missouri’s past, present and future.

Coalition launches redesigned website

5 years ago By News Staff

KANSAS CITY-NORTH – The Northland Coalition, the tri-county umbrella coalition for 20 local community coalitions, has launched a newly designed, user-friendly website featuring expanded prevention information, resources and partnership contacts, coalition information states.

City plans stream work

5 years ago By News Staff

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city will host a stream cleanup from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Oct.

U.S. VIRUS DEATHS TOP 200,000

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

LIBERTY – The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore reported the nation’s death toll from COVID-19 this week topped 200,000, including more than four dozen deaths in the Northland.

CITY-COUNTY COURT CLASH

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

LIBERTY – Given the choice between recognizing Kansas City’s zoning authority within city borders or going to court at taxpayers’ expense, the Clay County Commission turned to the county’s lawyers.

Heat can wreck roads

5 years ago By News Staff

JEFFERSON CITY – Although not as dramatic as the name would imply, pavement “blowups” are the summer’s version of potholes. Blowups are created by a combination of moisture, weakening pavement and temperatures consistently reaching 90 degrees or more across the state, the Missouri Department of Transportation stated.

THIS DAMAGE is visible on Route J in southern Ray County. The surface, like surfaces on roads across the Northland, suffers from numerous cracks and potholes, with some of the wear being due to blowups, Missouri Department of Transportation information states. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff

Hospital receives AHA recognition

5 years ago By News Staff

LIBERTY – Liberty Hospital received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. “The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, researchbased guidelines.

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