December 2023

The Excelsior Standard, Dec. 15, 2023 Norman Osterberg On Sunday, Dec.

Nobody talks about the melancholy feeling of an older sibling after you move out of the house. You can feel free and light about your new independence, but you don’t want your siblings to feel alone. In a house as tight-knit as mine, it feels like I’m ditching them by living approximately 13 minutes away from my three siblings.

Thanksgiving seems like a distant past as another major holiday looms right around the corner. Some of us just shut the door on one holiday and before we know it, the crisp frost-bitten air has swept in and transformed the living room overnight. Stockings are hung, and a six-foot-tall tree illuminates through the front windows at night.

Carrie Classon’s, “Blue Yarn: A Memoir,” is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other fine stores. Learn more at CarrieClasson.

Excelsior Springs continues to rack up dual wins in varsity boys wrestling. The Tigers were 5-1 and had won four of their last five duals entering Wednesday’s home dual with Winnetonka, according to Missouri State High School Activities Association records.

to PRO High heat, drop kicks, random observations and points that amuse are all part of the wide, wide world of sports at the community and national levels. I feel a sudden, strange urge to play Santa Claus to some folks in the sports community.

Stephen Spear, mayor protem and longtime resident of Excelsior Springs, shared his holiday traditions and the ways in which the community embodies the Christmas Spirit, as well as what’s to come in the future.

Senate Bill 190 has officially passed in Clay County with a six-to-one vote as a new ordinance allowing property tax relief for senior citizens beginning in January 2025. Passed by the Missouri General Assembly and signed by Governor Mike Parson in August, SB 190 allows counties across the state to implement their own revised ordinance that enables a homestead property tax credit for eligible senior taxpayers.

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The Excelsior Springs city council met recently and passed three new ordinances. Each new ordinance amended portions of laws already in place to abide by Article 14 of the Missouri Constitution relating to marijuana sales, transit and criminal offenses.