May 2022

Gatsby gang shows community spirit

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Enthusiastic participants make the Gatsby Day celebration in downtown Excelsior Springs happen, event organizer Crystal Keeton says. While poet Shannon Morgan shares her poem about a frog and a toad, Keeton surveys the Hall of Waters circle drive, where the day is centered.

WITHOUT missing a note, electric guitar soloist Johnny Garrett shifts to playing with his teeth.

Rumore leads Tigers at Lawson; Layton second at Platte County

4 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The track and field teams logged some bus miles last week. Excelsior Springs competed in two road meets: the Nick Sloop Invitational April 25 at Lawson and the Platte County Invitational April 29 at Platte County.

ES bats explode in back-to-back routs

4 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers’ offense continued to roar last week in varsity baseball. Excelsior Springs outscored its opponents 23-3 in two home games, getting a 12-2 non-conference win April 25 over Van Horn of Independence and an 11-1 Missouri River Valley Conference West Division win April 28 over Odessa.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS senior Seth Barton picks up one of his two hits on April 26 against visiting Van Horn of Independence as the Tigers cruise to a 12-2 victory in five innings. DUSTIN DANNER | Staff

ES boys netters go 3-1 to close April

4 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers had a nearly perfect week the last week of April in varsity boys tennis. Excelsior Springs went 3-1 in duals, scoring wins over Odessa and Clinton, both on April 26; and Odessa again on April 28.

Welcome to the NFL

4 years ago By Dustin Danner

LAS VEGAS – The Raiders just inked a deal with a former Excelsior Springs standout football player. Sam Webb, a 2016 graduate, signed as an undrafted free agent with the Raiders this weekend after the NFL Draft, held in Las Vegas, home to the Raiders since 2020.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS graduate Sam Webb, seen here defending against a pass for the Missouri Western State University Griffons, has signed with the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders. COURTESY OF THE MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY WEBSITE

Evelyn M. Bales Coursen

4 years ago By News Staff

Evelyn M. Bales Coursen, age 99, passed peacefully in her sleep at Liberty Hospital on Thurs. Apr.

Mushroom hunter finds human remains

4 years ago By News Staff

HENRIETTA – New information is available about human remains discovered in rural Ray County.

“We had a mushroom hunter go out into a rural part of the county” and came upon skeletal remains April 27, Sheriff Scott Childers said Monday.

No location for the discovery is being released, Childers said.

“I don’t want people going out that way looking themselves,” he said.