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CAP attracts families to play cornhole

4 years ago By Tara Altis

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Community at Play, or CAP, hosted a “Cornhole Family Fun Day” on May 21. “The population of individuals with developmental disabilities was growing in Ray County, but the community connectedness and awareness was not,” Suzan Breen said.

GRINNING, Garry Pennington starts a game of cornhole with help given, from left, by Jackson Breen, Suzan Breen, James Eubank and Jordan Griffin. TARA ALTIS | Staff

Excelsior Springs cannabis business Partners with Cable Dahmer Arena

4 years ago By Sophia Bales

INDEPENDENCE – Corey Martin, chief of staff, Kansas City Cannabis Co., stated the company is one of the few 100% Missouri-owned and operated medical marijuana dispensaries and announced a partnership with Cable Dahmer Arena in Independence.

KC Cannabis links up with Cable Dahmer Arena, Independence.

‘SURRENDER IS NOT A RANGER WORD’

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Granting a Congressional Gold Medal to all World War II Army Rangers, including an Excelsior Springs resident, has received congressional approval. First Sgt.

WARFARE HISTORY NETWORK states the American fight over the town of Cisterna di Littoria in central Italy came at a cost of two battalions of the Darby’s 6615th Ranger Force. Defended tenaciously by the German Army, Cisterna served as a key step toward capturing Rome. U.S. ARMY | Colorized

Excelsior Springs resident dies in three-vehicle wreck

4 years ago By News Staff

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – An Excelsior Springs resident died in a wreck that totaled three vehicles. Richard A. Dobbins, 30, Excelsior Springs, died during the collision that occurred about 10:12 a.m. Monday at U.S. Highway 69 at North Jesse James Road, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported.

Board recognizes retiring staffers

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Three retiring district employees received a sendoff from district leaders when the Board of Education met May 9 at the Support Services Center.

Board agrees to raise staff salaries

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – School district personnel will receive raises for 2022-23.

Senior Life Solutions spreads mental health awareness

4 years ago By Sophia Bales

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Excelsior Springs Hospital Senior Life Solutions is spreading awareness of the challenges of receiving mental health access in rural areas.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS HIGH CLASS OF 2022

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Lainey Creason avoided sentimentality as she bid farewell to Excelsior Springs High School. The final speaker of the commencement ceremony May 13 in the high school gym, she acknowledged the class would miss high school.

GARRETT JONES conducts as the Excelsior Springs Symphonic Band plays Clare Grundham’s arrangement of Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance.”

Moving moments from city history on display

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Video from a city festival in the 1930s – including images of Native Americans, cowboys and a stagecoach – is available on a new, widescreen monitor at the Excelsior Springs Museum and Archives, 101 E. Broadway.

THIS NEW MONITOR at the Excelsior Springs Museum and Archives, shown by museum Director Kathy Duncan, provides video from a Mulesta Festival in the mid-1930s, including this cowboy with a six-shooter. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff

After aiding with investigation of Polo fires, state withdraws

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

RICHMOND – Law enforcers continue to look for a person with whom they wish to speak after a deadly arson fire, and Missouri Fire Safety completed work and withdrew from the investigation.

THE CALDWELL COUNTY Sheriff’s Office released this image of a vehicle of interest in the deadly Polo-area arson fire May 10. CALDWELL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

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