May 2020

KANSAS CITY – The Kansas City Chiefs picked six players during this year’s NFL draft, which had a different atmosphere because of pandemicinduced social distancing.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Substance Abuse Free Environments, or SAFE, Coalition awarded Michelle Huettenmueller the Community Champion Award for April.

JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Mike Parson asserted Missouri would reopen with as little regulation as possible.

JEFFERSON CITY – Clay County Clerk Megan Thompson’s office received a rating of “good” from Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway’s office.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Tri-County Mental Health Services staff is reaching out to the community to offer coping tools to reduce family stress caused by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Richard Frye, 87, of Excelsior Springs, Missouri, died Tuesday, April 28, 2020, at the Excelsior Springs Nursing and Rehab Center.

Carl W. Pollard, 88, Excelsior Springs, passed away May 5, 2020.

Jerry W. Barnett, 78, Independence, Missouri, passed away on May 3, 2020.

JEFFERSON CITY – Judge W. Doug Thomson received an appointment from Gov. Mike Parson to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

JEFFERSON CITY – State Auditor Nicole Galloway released an audit finding of “good” for the Excelsior Springs Municipal Division in the 7th Judicial Circuit.