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LIBERTY – The Clay County Sheriff’s Office issued an annual report to the community. “A report like this is important to show the community how we use their tax dollars and let them hold us accountable,” Sheriff Will Akin said.

In the end, no one got indicted, which makes the story of the state audit of Clay County almost anticlimactic. Almost.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The golf course plans to have a new cart fleet in March 2023. “The city typically purchases” fleets of carts through 60-month rent-to-own agreements, City Manager Molly McGovern stated in a memoradum to city leaders.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Downtown had “a really positive economic impact year” in 2021, Downtown Excelsior Partnership Executive Director Lyndsey Baxter told city leaders at the Hall of Waters. Last year, the Community Improvement District, or CID, brought in almost $6.5 million downtown “in reported taxable retail sales,” Baxter said while giving the DEP’s annual report in a PowerPoint presentation March 7.

KANSAS CITY – The Missouri Department of Conservation confirmed avian influenza, or bird flu, has been detected in an American white pelican in Clay County. “It was found by a pond by a private citizen, and then it was euthanized and tested,” Missouri Department of Conservation spokesman Bill Graham said March 10.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city has clarified special use permit rules. The council addressed permit-holders’ failure to comply “with any special conditions imposed at the time of approval” and preservation of “the public health, safety and welfare,” per an approved ordinance.

OAK GROVE – This season, Excelsior Springs did something the Tigers had not done since 2017: They won a district boys basketball game. Excelsior Springs ended the drought Feb.

WORTHINGTON, Minnesota – An Excelsior Springs High School graduate continues to experience success as a wrestler in junior college. Damon Ashworth, who graduated in 2021, just finished his freshman season at Minnesota West Community and Technical College as a juco All-American.