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Blunt urges Trump’s DHH director to give aid to rural health providers

6 years ago By News Staff

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt – who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies – joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of 121 members of Congress in sending a letter to the Trump administration calling for immediate assistance to rural hospitals and clinics.

Food service employees essential during crisis

6 years ago By News Staff

Missourians are flooding into their local grocery stores to stockpile cleaning supplies food and, of course, toilet paper. They pile into these stores because they are worried. They pile in because they want to protect their families, and because they want to feel safe.

Virus restricts what coaches can do for teams

6 years ago By Shawn Roney

RICHMOND – The Missouri State High School Activities Association has limited what local prep sports coaches and athletes, including in Excelsior Springs and Richmond, can do while the spring sports season hangs in limbo.

LOCAL PREP ATHLETES like Hardin-Central senior Izabella Anderson, seen here warming up during a team practice in early March, are having to train on their own as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.

New year, new ways to win for Excelsior Springs baseball

6 years ago By Dustin Danner

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – With the coronavirus taking the field, there is no certainty there will be a Tiger baseball season. Still, plans have been made.

SENIORS who are ready to play baseball for Excelsior Springs, if the coronavirus clears up in time, are as follows: front row, from left, Brennan Jones, Wyatt Jarvis and Jett Rivera; second row, head coach Aaron Holst, Ryan Nedblake, Brandon Gluhm, Jacob Leonhard and Jakob Pekarek.

MLB offers Royals, Cards fans classic baseball games

6 years ago By News Staff

NEW YORK CITY – Because of the coronavirus pandemic, baseball fans in Ray County obviously cannot take in a Kansas City Royals game at Kauffman Stadium or a St. Louis Cardinals game at Busch Stadium.

District teachers create brighter day in time of darkness

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Once upon a time, when a person referred to as “The Boss” wore an electric guitar rather than a suit and tie, and a young man did not use his single glove as an oven mitt, the world’s No. 1 musical artists gathered to shine light in the darkness.

THESE ARE SOME of the many Excelsior Springs High School teachers who recreate a video to make the world a better place in a time of world crisis.

Lawson woman contracts virus

6 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

LAWSON – A 72-year-old Lawson woman is the first person confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus, COVID-19, in Ray County.

SOCIAL DISTANCING

6 years ago By Michael J. Coren

NEW YORK – In 1918, Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people.

Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people, who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, sick and dying patients infected by the Spanish flu filled every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals.