October 2020

Coalition elects officers

5 years ago By News Staff

KANSAS CITY-NORTH – During a zoom meeting, the Northland Coalition voted to elect officers for 2020-21. The officers are: President Jamie Parrett, who is the executive director, Platte County Community Center North/ YMCA; President-Elect Amy Ganaden, intermediate and middle school division head, Oakhill Day School; Treasurer Tom Mayfield, Excelsior Springs technical high school coordinator; Vice President of Advocacy Danielle Roethler, community development specialist for Clay County Public Health Center; and Secretary Emily Barnes, community prevention specialist, Tri-County Mental Health Services.

Monster Ball on Oct. 23

5 years ago By News Staff

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Area Cultural Guild announced the Second Annual Monster Ball. The ball will be held on Friday, Oct.

Tigers drop first three MRVC West varsity volleyball matches

5 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers are still looking to win their first Missouri River Valley Conference West Division varsity volleyball match this season. Excelsior Springs opened MRVC West play by falling to Harrisonville and Warrensburg in straight sets.

Tough D produces no W’s for Tigers in varsity boys soccer

5 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Over the past two weeks of the varsity boys soccer season, defense has kept the Tigers in games. Last week, however, the Tigers struggled on offense.

ETHAN EDWARDS executes a free kick for the Tigers against Smithville. DUSTIN DANNER | Staff

ES netters end regular season with win, bow out in districts

5 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers got to experience one more triumph before their varsity girls tennis season ended. On Oct.

SADIE MOORE hits a forehand shot during her Oct. 1 singles win. DUSTIN DANNER | Staff

ES girls golfers add another conference title to trophy case

5 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers are conference champions in varsity girls golf again. Last week, the Tigers won a regularseason conference title – one of their team goals – with a sweep of Pleasant Hill and Warrensburg.

FROM LEFT, Hope Chappel, Olivia Kelly and Kailey Sejkora display their MRVC all-conference medals Monday at Mules National Golf Course. SUBMITTED PHOTO | DAVID STALDER

ES softballers on a roll as postseason nears

5 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers are on a roll in varsity softball as the end of the regular season approaches. Entering Tuesday’s non-conference meeting at Platte County, Excelsior Springs had won four straight, including three games last week.

Tigers devour Cards, snap losing skid

5 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers looked to snap a three-game losing skid when they faced Clinton Oct. 2 for homecoming.

BREAKING A three-game losing streak gives Excelsior Springs a reason to cheer at homecoming.

Auto accident actually music video shoot

5 years ago By Brian Rice Publisher

An overturned car in the median of Hwy. 69 west of Excelsior was actually the site of a music video in the works.

Producer Megan Mancia explained that the project — which hails from L.A. — chose Excelsior Springs as the perfect locale for the shoot.

What appeared to many as an auto accident was actually the set of a music video being shot in Excelsior Springs.

Missing man, vehicle found in ditch near Dockery

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

RAYVILLE – Family and friends gathered around 3 p.m. October 2 to search for a missing man, Austin VanOster, 21, Rayville.

On Saturday, his mother, Rhonda Rowlinson, Richmond, announced on Facebook: “He’s been located. Unfortunately, it’s not the outcome we all hoped for.”

A passerby on Highway 13, near Dockery, spotted VanOster’s missing truck, Rowlinson told this newspaper.

RHONDA ROWLINSON says her son, Austin VanOster, has been found – an apparent traffic fatality. He appears to have driven off Highway 13 and into a ditch near Dockery.