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Proceeds from the Downtown Excelsior Partnership’s (DEP) annual benefit dinner, hosted on Sept. 15, will be used to construct a new outdoor deck seating area on Broadway in downtown Excelsior Springs.

Fiscal year (FY) 2023 is underway for Excelsior Springs. Like many other governments, including the federal government, the city’s fiscal year began Oct.

An Excelsior Springs Police Department officer-involved shooting occurred on Oct. 1 near the intersection of Kearney and Crown Hill roads. The shooting left the officer with non-life-threatening injuries and the suspect, 65-year-old Carl J. Carrel, dead.

Swope Health has received $44,000 from T-Mobile to fund a new project in the Early Childhood Center (ECC) in Excelsior Springs. The grant will go toward creating a new Swope Health KidsCARE clinic inside the ECC to create a space for children in the school and young children in the community to receive optical, medical and dental health.

Excelsior Springs is throwing its support behind a potential new affordable housing project. On Sept.

Excelsior Springs Job Corps campus is reopening fully after two-and-a-half years and celebrated that fact with a special Signing Day event Sept. 15.

From Sept. 18 to 24, the Missouri Photo Workshop was in Excelsior Springs for the first time in the work shop’s 74-year history.

Area families got to work out together, win prizes and sample nutritious snacks on Sept. 24.

A slate of board positions were filled through appointments and reappointments during the Excelsior Springs City Council’s regular meeting Sept. 6 at the Hall of Waters.

Parents of Excelsior Springs Career Center students might breathe easier about sending their sons and daughters there for career and technical education (CTE) training, based on some news shared during the latest Board of Education meeting.