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LIBERTY – With a controversial $20 million annex replacement project in progress, and with two out of three commissioners out after the Nov. 3 elections, Presiding Commissioner Jerry Nolte wants to put the annex project on hold.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The first day of the last year at Westview Elementary School found Hunter Happy, 9, walking with his mother, Kayla Happy, to the door. He wore a camouflage mask, and matching clothes.

SAVANNAH – Excelsior Springs opened the 2020 football season the way teams want to open a season: with a win. Sparked by a big second quarter, the Tigers finished their Aug.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers got off to an 0-2 start in varsity softball. The season opened Monday with a 4-3 road loss to Cameron.

RICHMOND – Excelsior Springs girls golf coach David Stalder liked the way his Tigers competed last weeked in the Odessa Par 3 Shootout at Shirkey Golf Course in Richmond to open the season. The Tigers shot a 324 as a team, 15 strokes behind the winner, Boonville.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers had what girls tennis coach Richie Marsh called “a tough start to the season” Tuesday against visiting Harrisonville. “Harrisonville returned four of their six top players from last season and we looked like we were timid in our first match of the year,” Marsh said.

LIBERTY – Voters will determine Clay County’s future at the polls Nov. 3.

GILBERT, Iowa – After the day’s meals are done, Deb Purcell, Gilbert Community Schools director of food service, shuffles through a stack of papers. Gilbert, a town north of Ames in central Iowa, serves about 1,400 to 1,600 meals a day.