April 2020

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The class of 2020 now has a graduation date.

JEFFERSON CITY – Oats Inc., an 87-county transportation service that includes Clay County, and Ray County Transportation Inc., also called Direct Transit, are among rural transportation agencies set to receive a federal grant funding as part of national COVID-19 relief efforts.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – While the semiannual National Drug Take- Back Day has been cancelled due to the pandemic, prevention advocates of the Excelsior Springs Substance Abuse Free Environments Coalition, or SAFE, remind the community of safe, at-home ways to dispose of unused prescription and over-the-counter medications.

JEFFERSON CITY – Sen. Denny Hoskins offered “a shout out” to public health agencies.

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services encourages people who are fully recovered from COVID-19 to make an unpaid, voluntary donation of plasma.

BALTIMORE - The Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University updated pandemic information regarding social distancing Wednesday.

LIBERTY – The Clay County Sheriff’s Office identified the inmate pronounced dead at an area hospital – after suffering a medical emergency in the Clay County Detention Center on Friday – as Charles Aaron Holtsclaw, 36, Kansas City.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Chamber of Commerce offers aid to businesses “affected and greatly diminished by the COVID-19 pandemic though a grant program,” chamber President Elaina Lamley said.

RICHMOND – The sun is barely up when John Johnson, Lexington, climbs out of bed and makes the drive across the Missouri River to Ray County.

RICHMOND – Long before the world became aware of the novel coronavirus that has most people in the United States staying home, the pork industry watched with concern as a different virus decimated the pig population in China.