April 2024

DUSTIN DANNER Sports Reporter Excelsior Springs varsity girls basketball coach JD Biermann and his Tigers have formally capped their season. They did so April 1 with a team banquet, held in the high school commons area.

Jacob Schmidt and Landon Biermann negotiated the rolling hills of Shiloh Springs Golf Club well enough to contend for a title when Excelsior Springs played there last week in varsity competition. Paired for the Platte County Invitational Scramble, Schmidt and Biermann shot a 65 (-7) for the 18-hole, par-72 competition to place third in the April 1 tournament.

Excelsior Springs ran into a seasoned opponent in varsity boys tennis on April 4, when the Tigers hosted perennial Class 1 power Lafayette County of Higginsville. It was the Huskers’ sixth dual this season.

An Excelsior Springs man has been found guilty by a jury of his peers on two felony charges. Ronald D.

An Excelsior Estates man has been released after allegedly failing to register his vehicle with the sex offender registry. Daniel E.

RICK STRACK receives a standing ovation as he retires from the Excelsior Springs School District No. 40 Board after serving for six years TRACI WHITE takes her seat as the new Excelsior Springs School District No. 40 Board member.

From protecting the community to helping staff, the City of Excelsior Springs has been blessed with an employee for 30 years. Clint Reno’s journey with the City of Excelsior Springs began at the Excelsior Springs Police Department (ESPD), where he rose through the ranks to become the police chief.

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The Excelsior Standard, April 12, 2024 Steven Taylor Feb. 4, 1954-March 6, 2024 Steven (Steve/Spook) Allen Taylor, 70, died March 6, 2024, in Gladstone.

Last week, Excelsior Springs gave up eight goals in one game in varsity girls soccer – and then scored eight goals in one game. FALLING TO THE FALCONS The Tigers yielded eight goals April 2 in their 8-3 road loss to Van Horn, an Independence-based school.