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Orion clarifies management duties at city’s golf course

5 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – City Finance Department Director Vonda Floyd has a clearer sense of what Orion will provide in managing the city’s golf course, she told city leaders during a late-January work session.

Excelsior Springs High School crowns court warming royalty

5 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – On Jan. 22, the Excelsior Springs High School Student Council celebrated its court warming coronation.

SENIOR COURT WARMING QUEEN Tristan Sykes is escorted by her father, Jarrett Sykes.

Gov. Parson addresses ongoing opioid abuse issue in Missouri

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Mike Parson said he supports a statewide prescription drug monitoring program to help combat the opioid epidemic.

USING a social media platform, Gov. Mike Parson talks about the ongoing opioid crisis with media members last week. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff

Hospital ‘ready’ when vaccine arrives

5 years ago By Shawn Roney

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Excelsior Springs Hospital is ready to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, but when the vaccine will arrive and what role the hospital will play are unknown, CEO Kristen DeHart told city leaders via Zoom.

Shooting death in Polo

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

POLO – At the side of a woman dying from gunshot wounds, Greg Baker, 55, Polo, said he called 911 and then waited more than 20 minutes for help, gave the first deputy to arrive “an ass chewing” and went hunting for the shooter.

Man finds woman dying in street, calls 911, hunts down alleged killer

Poll finds rural residents resist taking virus vaccine

5 years ago By Tim Marema

WHITESBURG, Kentucky – Rural residents are more hesitant than their metropolitan counterparts to get a COVID-19 vaccination, though rural areas have higher infection and death rates from the virus, a new report states.

State unemployment rate approaches 6%

5 years ago By News Staff

KANSAS CITY – The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped 1.3% from November to December, going to 5.8%, the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center reported. The estimated number of unemployed Missourians hit 180,137 in December.