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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers ran a shorter distance than usual to start the varsity cross country season. Competing against teams from Blue Springs South, Cameron, Fort Osage and Grain Valley, the Tigers ran Aug.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The action Sept. 3 at Tiger Stadium gave Excelsior Springs and Warrensburg fans plenty of reasons to cheer.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Cityowned cemetery space is running out at Crown Hill and Hillcrest, City Manager Molly McGovern said during a meeting with other city leaders. The city could develop a Crown Hill section to allow for shallow digging for urns versus graves, McGovern said.

RICHMOND – Seventy years ago, on March 13, 1951, 17-yearold Ira Anderson enrolled in the U.S. Army to fight for his country.

LIBERTY – During an Aug. 18 Zoom meeting, the Northland Coalition voted to elect the following members to serve as officers for 2021-2022: • President, Amy Ganaden, intermediate and middle school division head at Oakhill Day School; • President-elect, Shawn Warfield, behavioral therapist at the Jacobs Center, North Kansas City School District; • Treasurer, Tom Mayfield, Excelsior Springs technical high school coordinator; and • Secretary, Emily Barnes, community prevention specialist for Tri-County Mental Health Services.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – During September, National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month, Excelsior Springs Hospital’s Senior Life Solutions is working to raise awareness and educate the community on risk factors and warning signs.

LIBERTY – Taxpayers sidestepped financial quicksand when the Clay County Commission dropped the former commission’s plan to spend $20 million to build an annex the public did not want. “That annex was not going to happen.

LIBERTY – The Clay County Commission agreed to rename a county building the Ed Quick County Building in honor of former Clay County Presiding Commissioner Ed Quick. Also a former Missouri Senate President pro tem, Kansas City councilman, firefighter and U.S.