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Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The City Council rezoned land on Meadowlark Lane from an apartment district to a business district April 4 at the Hall of Waters, as requested by the Earl J. McElwee Trust.

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city is again calling on Lamp Rynearson to oversee road maintenance and repairs.

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Downtown Excelsior Partnership, or DEP, received $50,000 to allocate grants for external building improvements downtown. On April 4 at the Hall of Waters, the City Council approved the money for the DEP’s Façade Program.

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – City leaders want to refine Excelsior Springs’ rules governing dangerous dogs before possibly repealing a decades-old pit bull ban. An ordinance repealing the ban was on the agenda for Monday night’s City Council meeting at the Hall of Waters.

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Missouri Department of Transportation will start pavement repairs on U.S. 169, north and south, between Route KK and 200th Street at the Clinton County line from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday until April 29.

Body RICHMOND – COVID-19 numbers are down – way down – from earlier this year in Ray County. Numbers are down statewide, too.

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Cultural Guild’s Annual Gatsby Day Festival to raise scholarship funds returns from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Patrons and volunteers occupied every row among rummage sale tables filling the expansive floor of the former Excelsior Trust/Boatman’s Bank building at South Street and Thompson Avenue.

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Wild Bunch is doing a wild bunch of business at 1218 N. Jesse James Road, in the former Diggers/Trade Fair building.

Body THE TROLLIES are running in Excelsior Springs. On Saturday, this one carries people around downtown for the Hop and Shop.