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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The City Council voted to approve additional building codes as 2021 ended. The City Council approved an ordinance Dec.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The municipal airport’s north hangar will get a makeover and an occupant. On Dec.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The school district remains “healthy” financially, Brad Steele said Dec. 13 at the Board of Education meeting at Support Services Center.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – A Kansas City company won the bid for a new police department skylight and roofing materials. The City Council approved a $214,000 bid from Delta Innovative Services of Kansas City, Kansas, as submitted by interim Chief Chris Weber, when the council convened Dec.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The police department is getting a new animal control vehicle. On Dec.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The school district is developing a program that might help avoid future personnel shortages. Assistant Superintendent Melissa Miller announced the development during the Board of Education’s meeting Dec.

RICHMOND – Less than halfway through the program, more than 120 people had already joined what is expected to be recalled as the first annual International Day for People with Disabilities Dec. 3 at the Richmond High School track.

JEFFERSON CITY – The COVID-19 pandemic caused nursing homes to change policies overnight, with telehealth adopted widely in an effort to reduce stress on the health care system. Telehealth did so by keeping residents

PLEASANT VALLEY – Sheriff Will Akin opened the Community Drug Education Summit with the reason for calling together law enforcers, mental health specialists and the public: “We are investigating an unprecedented number of cases involving deaths due to drug overdoses. We’re talking about teens and young adults here.” A DRUG HUB Poorly made, deadly drugs – primarily fentanyl, a synthetic opioid – flow into Ray, Clay and Jackson counties.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city has relinquished rights-of-way in Lookout Heights. The City Council passed two ordinances vacating rights-of-way in the subdivision Dec.