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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – After Ray Yates suffered a heart attack at Riteway Auto, paramedic Chris Blanchard and Excelsior Springs Fire Department Capt. Doug Fales rushed him to the hospital.

ORRICK – To celebrate Independence Day and to express gratitude to veterans, representatives from the Orrick Christian Church dropped by the Veterans Community Project Outreach Center in Kansas City to deliver more than 150 items and more than $1,600 in donations.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The idea for Flamingo Fridays started several years ago, when Lisa Walter’s husband worked in construction in Gladstone. He noticed the neighbors seemed close-knit, familiar and friendly with one another.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Firefighters restricted a house fire to a basement after responding to a call at 7:10 a.m. Aug.

RICHMOND – Sheriff Scott Childers and Ray County commissioners agree at least some inmates must be housed elsewhere while the county grapples with structural deficiencies and potential health issues at the Ray County Jail.

SHAWN RONEY Staff writer EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Hall of Waters refurbishing plans must change, City Manager Molly McGovern advised city leaders near the end of the City Council’s Aug. 2 meeting.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Luna Valley Park will get bigger. On Aug.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Municipal court is no longer collecting money for the Missouri Sheriffs’ Retirement System via surcharges. On Aug.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The landscape of a shallow oxbow lake about 8 miles south of Excelsior Springs has inspired the work of area artists and photographers in recent years. “They may have been unaware of its significance in the earliest days of Clay County.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – When Steve Houck began serving on the Board of Education in 2009, the need surfaced for building a new elementary school, he recalled. In 2021, Houck is seeing the 12-year-old vision come to fruition.