December 2021

ES girls fall to Cardinals, Bulldogs in tourney

4 years ago By Dustin Danner

CLINTON – The opening round of the girls portion of the Missouri River Valley Conference Tournament was a tale of two halves for the Tigers. The Tigers scored the first bucket in their 47-25 Dec.

Ralph J. Smart

4 years ago By News Staff

Ralph J. Smart, 96, North Kansas City, MO (formerly of Rayville, MO), died December 17, 2021 at his home. Graveside services will be 1:30 PM Thursday, December 23rd at Crowley Cemetery, near Rayville.

John Naylor

4 years ago By News Staff

John Naylor, 75, of Excelsior Springs, Missouri passed away on December 4, 2021 at home. Visitation will be held from 11:00am-12:30pm, Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at Rock Falls Baptist Church, Excelsior Springs, Missouri. A graveside service will follow the visitation at Crown Hill Cemetery, Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Mr. Naylor was born on October 21, 1946 in Roxsboro, North Carolina. John attended Excelsior Springs High School and volunteered for the Army during the Vietnam War. He was in communications and classified as a sharp shooter.

REPRIEVE FOR PIT BULLS?

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Residents might get to discuss eliminating the city’s ordinance on pit bulls with city leaders and each another. In his report during a Dec.

City gives approval to three ICC codes

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS– The city adopted three of the International Code Council’s 2018 building codes when the City Council convened Dec. 6 at the Hall of Waters.

Rights-of-way relinquished in Lookout Heights

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city has relinquished rights-of-way in Lookout Heights. The City Council passed two ordinances vacating rights-of-way in the subdivision Dec.

FENTANYL DRUG SUMMIT FOCUS

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

PLEASANT VALLEY – Sheriff Will Akin opened the Community Drug Education Summit with the reason for calling together law enforcers, mental health specialists and the public: “We are investigating an unprecedented number of cases involving deaths due to drug overdoses. We’re talking about teens and young adults here.” A DRUG HUB Poorly made, deadly drugs – primarily fentanyl, a synthetic opioid – flow into Ray, Clay and Jackson counties.

‘Witch! Witch!’ 2022 elections looming

4 years ago By News Staff

Complex issues require hard work to solve, making them too difficult to use to win political campaigns, so politicians fall back on the tried-and-true practice of faking problems, blowing them out of proportion and then offering solutions to those phantom problems.

Doctors work remotely to aid nursing homes ‘

4 years ago By News Staff

JEFFERSON CITY – The COVID-19 pandemic caused nursing homes to change policies overnight, with telehealth adopted widely in an effort to reduce stress on the health care system. Telehealth did so by keeping residents

THE USE OF TELEHEALTH during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve nursing home residents proves beneficial, research reveals.

International Day for People with Disabilities

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

RICHMOND – Less than halfway through the program, more than 120 people had already joined what is expected to be recalled as the first annual International Day for People with Disabilities Dec. 3 at the Richmond High School track.

DOZENS OF BALLOONS fly from the middle of the Richmond High School football field in celebration of International Day for People with Disabilities.