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Excelsior Springs is looking to get back into the win column in varsity girls basketball when 2023 begins. The Tigers, a Class 4 team, finished 2022 with back-to-back losses to larger schools.

Excelsior Springs broke even in varsity boys basketball at the Twelve Courts of Christmas, a holiday shootout featuring high school boys and girls programs from multiple states. On Dec.

On Dec. 15, Excelsior Springs formally ended its high school football season.

Since Missouri Amendment 3 was legalized in November, many are concerned about youth in rural areas and their developing young brains. The National Institution on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Ray County Coalition have chosen to educate parents about the impact of Amendment 3.

The Division of Cannabis Regulation of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) created an adult use timeline, giving residents a vision of dates and what will come from Amendment 3 in regard to micro businesses and their application process.

The Classified Employee of the Month and the Excelsior Springs High School Boys Soccer team were recognized during the December Excelsior Springs Board of Education meeting. Amber Mynatt, secretary at Cornerstone Elementary School, was recognized as the Classified Employee of the Month.

Built on the foundation that it’s the people that make the difference, American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC), a company of Winland Foods, Inc., will celebrate its 35year anniversary in 2023. As North America’s largest producer of dry pasta, AIPC sets the stage with new leadership to continue the tradition of pride in making pasta in Kansas City’s northland community by providing “more than a job” to the local workforce through its apprenticeship and skillbuilding programs.

The town of Excelsior Springs lost a pillar to the community last week with the passing of Jim Dusek on December 21. Dusek served the community as owner of Rite-Way Auto Service for 30 years. Prior to opening the auto service industry he purchased and built up Rite-Way Guttering where he and his family helped households around the area. Dusek was not only a businessman in the community but he spent countless hours working with the youth of Excelsior Springs as a volunteer baseball coach for over twenty years. Jim and his wife of 53 years, Wanda helped raise hundreds of kids on the baseball fields of Excelsior Springs. He led his two sons, Jeff and Kevin throughout their youth baseball playing days, coaching them through the Excelsior Springs Parks and Recreation baseball program and then through the Babe Ruth Baseball League from ages 13-18. He traveled around the region coaching baseball games during a time where travel baseball was just getting started in the area. He helped lead several Excelsior Springs athletes onto collegiate careers. Dusek’s tough love style of coaching brought respect from his players and opposing coaching that continues on to this day. Dusek was known to follow his former players through their lives, keeping in touch with families and loved ones and always willing to help out in various ways. He spent the last 20 years following his grandkids and their friends through their athletic endeavors but from outside of the fences. Although not as a coach, he still accepted the young athletes who played with his grandchildren as his own and was sure to find ways to make them smile. Dusek was a mentor and supporter of those who took the opportunity to spend time with him.