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JEFFERSON CITY – Those who want Clay County audit information must wait. The audit is in “coma status,” meaning results will not be shared until after the Nov.

RICHMOND – The National 4-H Council has created this year’s theme for National 4-H Week, Opportunity-4All, to rally support for Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program and identify solutions to eliminate the opportunity gap that affects 55 million youngsters across America.

COLUMBIA– The State Historical Society of Missouri and the St. Louis Ambassadors seek public participation to develop a bicentennial time capsule containing items that document Missouri’s past, present and future.

KANSAS CITY-NORTH – The Northland Coalition, the tri-county umbrella coalition for 20 local community coalitions, has launched a newly designed, user-friendly website featuring expanded prevention information, resources and partnership contacts, coalition information states.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city will host a stream cleanup from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Oct.

LIBERTY – The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore reported the nation’s death toll from COVID-19 this week topped 200,000, including more than four dozen deaths in the Northland.

LIBERTY – Given the choice between recognizing Kansas City’s zoning authority within city borders or going to court at taxpayers’ expense, the Clay County Commission turned to the county’s lawyers.

JEFFERSON CITY – Although not as dramatic as the name would imply, pavement “blowups” are the summer’s version of potholes. Blowups are created by a combination of moisture, weakening pavement and temperatures consistently reaching 90 degrees or more across the state, the Missouri Department of Transportation stated.

LIBERTY – Liberty Hospital received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. “The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, researchbased guidelines.

EXCLESIOR SPRINGS – What sounds like bad news on the surface is good news for the Hall of Waters, city Economic Development Director Melinda Mehaffy said. The city announced Sept.