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On April 5, the City Council approved a resolution to hire Kansas City-based Superior Bowen Asphalt Co. LLC to do overlay work. Superior Bowen has worked on projects such as the Kansas Speedway racetrack in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and on Kansas City’s downtown loop.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Superintendent Dan Hoehn recommended the Excelsior Springs School District reevaluate the size of summer school programs in 2022. Hoehn, who will retire in June, made his recommendation during the Board of Education’s April 12 meeting following a report by Anneliese Tadlock.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The school district is entering a program that might reduce its carbon footprint while helping reduce the chances the area will experience rolling blackouts during extreme weather, like some parts of the country experienced this winter.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The fire department is getting a new bush truck. The City Council approved Chief Joe Maddick’s request to buy a 2022 Ford F350 4-by-4 regular cab brush truck.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Police Chief Clint Reno said he hopes a new ordinance will reduce false alarm calls received by the department. Passed April 5 by the City Council as an addition to the city code, the ordinance gives police authority to issue written warnings to security alarm subscribers after three responses to false alarms within a calendar year.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Community center expansion is set. On April 5, the City Council approved hiring SFS Architecture Inc.

CARROLLTON – In late March, KMZU announced its latest Dream Teams for high school boys and girls basketball. Excelsior Springs juniors Mallory Millsap and Rylie Stottlemyre made the cut for the girls team.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – A block north of The Atlas Saloon, Grace Wins and The Farm House, a hill with a past and a future rises. “There used to be a hotel up there – Hotel Castle Rock,” Ryan Radecki says.

LIBERTY – Liberty Hospital has been recognized nationally by The American College of Cardiology, or ACC, and awarded Chest Pain Center Accreditation for demonstrated expertise and commitment in treating patients with chest pain.

Many bills filed in the Missouri General Assembly are dead on arrival, and that is for the best. But some bills are DOA because they make lawmakers uncomfortable.