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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The City Council has approved a joint venture with the Excelsior Springs School District and Excelsior Springs Hospital. The agreement involves using the community center.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Housing Authority Board of Directors has a new member. On Feb.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – After preparing for months, Excelsior Springs Hospital staff began administering 240 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Feb. 5.

RICHMOND – By cussing at the elected 911 Dispatch Board, demanding the removal of Director Kim Davis and declaring an overall lack of faith in the board, former Clay County detective Scott Childers, now Ray County’s sheriff, made an impression during his first month in office.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Boy Scout Troop 313 member Landen Summers completed his Eagle Scout project, a Blessing Box food pantry, to reach the Eagle Scout rank, the highest possible rank in the Boy Scout program.

LIBERTY – Northland Coalition prevention volunteers, with Tri-County Mental Health Services support, will host their first-ever virtual prevention conference from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The new superintendent of schools does not start work officially for several months, but that has not stopped Dr. Travis Hux, 44, from getting to know district employees.

JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Mike Parson said he plans to reclaim COVID-19 vaccine distributed to pharmacies, expects lawmakers to go all in on sports betting and would not mind getting a raise.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – A metro area crime trend has reached Excelsior Springs, Police Chief Clint Reno told city leaders during a late-January work session. The metro is experiencing an increase in thefts of catalytic converters from motor vehicles, Reno said.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Community Center is reaching out to help elderly residents sign up on the Clay County Public Health Center website for COVID-19 vaccinations. Center Executive Director Jesse Hall told city leaders during a late-January City Council work session on Zoom that the center had contacted and provided over-the-phone assistance to “those that are on hold that are 70 and over.” In addition, the center had provided in-person assistance, using social distancing, Hall said.