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An issue-by-issue look at 2020 (part 1)

Body RICHMOND – For those who have lived through – • The Cold War, while learning to hide under classroom desks as protection against atomic bombs; • The Civil Rights Movement with protests, beatings and murders, and the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther...
RICK AND KRISTEN DeHart share a 2020 New Year’s kiss at midnight at Dubious Claims Brewing Co.

Missouri minimum wage increases Jan. 1

Body JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations reminds the public the state’s minimum wage rate will rise to $10.30 per hour, effective Friday. Pursuant to Proposition B – which a majority of Missouri voters approved Nov.
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The Little Pieces

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Scores of shoppers browsed and bought at the annual Mistletoe Market at the Montgomery Event Venue, many having no idea how much work goes into the “simple” crafts on display at some of the tables.
BROWSERS at the Mistletoe Market include Danielle Hague, left, who visits the K3Krafts table, where Carol DuVall and Kara Klein offer hundreds of tiny Christmas ornaments that work individually or as attachments to larger ornaments.

For unto you is born this day ... a savior

Body While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
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COVID-19 BY THE NUMBERS

Body SOURCES: State, Ray and Clay health departments, Johns Hopkins University J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff NUMBERS in this graphic are “accumulated.
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Hospital CMO society fellow

Body LIBERTY – The Infectious Diseases Society of America, or IDSA, named Raghu Adiga, M.D., among 181 distinguished physicians from around the world as a society fellow.
RAGHU ADIGA liberty hospital

School board OKs community center agreement

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Community Center and the Excelsior Springs School District have a win-win agreement, Deputy Superintendent Jaret Tomlinson said. The Board of Education approved the partnership Dec.

‘Tremendous progress’ made on new school

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Brick masons have made “a tremendous amount of progress” in recent weeks on the Cornerstone Elementary School construction project, Superintendent Dan Hoehn reported during the Board of Education’s Dec. 14 meeting on Zoom.
AT THE NEW Cornerstone Elementary School, the superstructure is up, along with most exterior walls. J.C. VENTIMIGLIA | Staff
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