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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – This week, the athletic facilities at Excelsior Springs High School are unoccupied. As mandated by the Missouri State High School Activities Association, the first week of August is the dead week before fall sports practices begin.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The landscape of a shallow oxbow lake about 8 miles south of Excelsior Springs has inspired the work of area artists and photographers in recent years. “They may have been unaware of its significance in the earliest days of Clay County.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – When Steve Houck began serving on the Board of Education in 2009, the need surfaced for building a new elementary school, he recalled. In 2021, Houck is seeing the 12-year-old vision come to fruition.

There needs to be more Olympic sports, especially Summer Olympic sports. This realization was sparked in part from watching parts of NBCSN’s marathon coverage of the XXXII Olympiad, slated to conclude Sunday in Tokyo.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Progress on apiary development is being made by KC Kosmic Bees on the old Hotel Castle Rock property, owner Ryan Radecki said. “Exciting news!” KC Kosmic Bees reported July 20.

RICHMOND – Voters slammed the door shut on a plan to replace the Ray County Jail, with a whopping 82.41% saying no Tuesday. Sheriff Scott Childers thanked voters and warned that jail problems remain unresolved.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Broc Dusek will probably be among the upperclassmen coach Aaron Holst will look to lead the Tigers in varsity baseball in 2022, based on what Dusek did as an underclassman in 2021.

RICHMOND – “It’s a money pit.” Western Commissioner Gary Wilhite described the Ray County Jail by referencing a 1986 comedy film about a couple pouring money into a “fixerupper” that never seems to get fixed. Eastern Commissioner Dave Powell said work is ongoing to make the most out of the shed-like jail.