January 2021

WHITESBURG, Kentucky – Rural residents are more hesitant than their metropolitan counterparts to get a COVID-19 vaccination, though rural areas have higher infection and death rates from the virus, a new report states.

Karen Lee Goodman Lemoine, 77, of Excelsior Springs passed away Thursday Jan. 21, 2021. Karen was born on May 23, 1943, to Charles and Frances Goodman. She was a nanny, a file clerk at Ball’s Clinic and a homemaker. She married Richard Donald Lemoine on Dec. 15, 1974.

Mitchell D. Stanfield, 44, of Excelsior Springs died Tuesday, Jan.

It’s apparent to me that this is just another cover-up by the city manager and city leadership. Their mismanagement in building a restaurant and calling it a clubhouse is laughable. Then, to compound the problem, they decided to create a housing development. Granted, the old clubhouse needed some refurbishing and cleanup. But what the city manager and friends built was a restaurant to compete with independently owned eateries in town. The actual section used for the golf patrons and members isn’t any bigger than my kitchen. I’ve played and been a member for years and have seen its condition go from good to bad several times, all due to the city’s mismanagement.

This can be the year we scale up solutions that embrace a culture of health and expand family prosperity. Access to a good job, education, health and whole-family well-being are the foundations of family prosperity – as is an inclusive and expansive definition of family that honors the multitude of ways in which we live and care for one another.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The first win of the season continues to elude the Tigers in varsity boys basketball. Victory No.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Five forfeited matches hurt the Tigers on Jan. 21 when they hosted Center in a Missouri River Valley Conference West Division boys wrestling dual.

KANSAS CITY – The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped 1.3% from November to December, going to 5.8%, the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center reported. The estimated number of unemployed Missourians hit 180,137 in December.

Ruth Flynn, 83, of Wellington passed away Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, at Shirkey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – City employees will receive paid COVID-related sick leave for roughly five more months. As City Manager Molly McGovern stated in a Jan.