| Excelsior Springs Standard

STATES OF EMERGENCY

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

LIBERTY – Ray and Clay counties have issued coronavirus-prompted emergency declarations, and the Clay County Health Department announced three confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Jerry Nolte Clay County Presiding Commissioner and Bob King Ray County Presiding Commissioner

RIDGEWAY BOWS OUT

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

LIBERTY – Embattled Clay County Eastern Commissioner Luann Ridgeway, 63, announced Friday that she will not seek reelection.

The decision could herald a change in the county’s direction.

AFTER ANOTHER contentious meeting in February, Ray County Eastern Commissioner Luann Ridgeway answers questions for one reporter, but not others waiting to answer questions in the same hallway in the Clay County Administration Building on the Liberty Square. ‘

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