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Excelsior Springs football: A look back

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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The coronavirus pandemic kept Excelsior Springs’ varsity football season up in the air from week to week. The Tigers, 3-5, lost two games this season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
THE TIGERS, seen here playing in August at Savannah, grind through an uncertain, COVID-era football season. DUSTIN DANNER | Staff

COVID CASES CONTINUE UP EVERYWHERE

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RICHMOND – The idea some in Washington floated – that COVID-19 would disappear after the presidential election – has proved false nationally and in Clay and Ray counties. Including most of the northern part of Kansas City, Clay County in the past week has recorded another 15 deaths.
SOURCES: State and counties of Ray, Clay health departments, Johns Hopkins University J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff

Council OKs FD radio system upgrade

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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The City Council approved the Fire Department’s radio system upgrade request. Assistant Chief of Communications Camron White told city leaders in a memo that updating the system would cost $291,018 with an estimated $2,500 licensing fee.
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LANE OF LIGHTS

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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Lane of Lights tradition continues with a distinct claim to fame. While doing last-minute, opening day work on the lights, Clint Hylton says he believes Excelsior Springs has the longest Christmas lights tunnel in the metro area.
THE LANE OF LIGHTS in Excelsior Springs includes the longest lighted tunnel in the Kansas City metropolitan area. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff