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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Post Office will collect food for community members in need Saturday, acting Officer in Charge Kat Bollinger said Monday. “We’re not supplying bags this year,” Bollinger said.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Enthusiastic participants make the Gatsby Day celebration in downtown Excelsior Springs happen, event organizer Crystal Keeton says. While poet Shannon Morgan shares her poem about a frog and a toad, Keeton surveys the Hall of Waters circle drive, where the day is centered.

ON A BLUSTERY SATURDAY in the Excelsior Springs Community Center parking lot, community members take advantage of health screenings and other information – and freebies. Getting freebies, from left, are the Saunders sisters – Margaret, 4; Charlotte, 7; and Amelia, 7. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – What began in 2020 during the pandemic has become an annual rite of passage in Excelsior Springs. The High School Senior Parade will take place at 5 p.m.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – More felony charges have been filed against Joshua Edward McCoy, 31, Excelsior Springs. McCoy faces mostly felony bad check charges, which have been filed in Clay and Platte counties in Missouri, and Johnson County in Kansas.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Hospital drive-through COVID clinic closed Sunday. During an April 15 work session at the Hall of Waters, hospital CEO Kristen DeHart told city leaders the clinic would close, citing a decrease in COVID cases.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city could receive up to $57,878 more to help with road projects, thanks to an agreement between Excelsior Springs and the Mid-America Regional Council.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Crime does not pay, especially when the law and gangster Al Capone are out to deliver justice on the mean streets of downtown Excelsior Springs.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Kevin and Sonya Morgan received the McReynolds Award from the Missouri Alliance for historic preservation for their long-term work promoting historic preservation in Excelsior Springs and Clay County.