Council changes utility bill rules
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Residents have a new process for requesting utility bill adjustments. The City Council agreed to change the process May 17.
May 2021
Season ends for Tigers at sectional track and field meet
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ODESSA – Excelsior Springs’ track and field season is over. The season ended May 22, when no Tigers placed among the top four in their events at the Class 4 Sectional 4 meet at Odessa.
Waterfest returns to Excelsior June 25-26
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS — It wouldn’t be summer in Excelsior Springs without Waterfest. After taking a COVID break in 2020, everyone’s favorite festival returns in 2021 with a celebration larger than ever.
Excelsior Springs district OKs math service for schools
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The school district has another new math service. On May 10, the Board of Education approved an agreement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to provide Into Math services for grades K-5, effective the 2021-22 school year and priced at $112,043.
Mo. ends tax exemption for online sellers
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After about a decade of wriggling and whining, with copious amounts of pretense sprinkled liberally upon nonsense, the Republican-dominated General Assembly – kicking and screaming to the last – finally agreed that online businesses should pay the same sales tax that mom-and-pop businesses have paid all along.
Council approves road repair change order; price up by $64k
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city has tweaked plans for overlaying asphalt on North Jesse James Road and other thoroughfares. On May 17, the City Council approved a $64,465 change order for road repairs.
Leroy J. Fluesmeier
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Leroy J. Fluesmeier of Excelsior Springs died May 27, 2021, at his home of complications with Parkinson Dementia at the age of 77 surrounded by his loving family.
Brad Michael Carr
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Brad Michael Carr, 56, Excelsior Springs, MO passed, after a long hard-fought battle with cancer, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.
Brad was born to Mary Brell White and Lonnie “Bud” Carr on October 22, 1964.
Roberta Mae Cogdill
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Roberta Mae Cogdill, 93 on May 14, went to be with our heavenly father on May 22, 2021.
She worked as a church secretary at Woods Memorial Church also known as Miss Roberta at Jan's Show 'N Tell Preschool. She loved her family very much and they were her world.
Charles Omar Garrett
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Charles Omar Garrett passed away peacefully Thursday May 20, 2021, at his home in Excelsior Springs, MO. He was born to Omar and Marjorie Garrett in Sedalia, MO.
He is survived by the love of his life Roberta (Berta) who he was married to for 47 years.