RICHMOND — As looked likely, the season for the Brookfield High School Bulldogs golf team reached its conclusion last Monday. Competing in the state-qualifying Class 2 District 4 tournament at Richmond’s Shirkey Golf Course, Brookfield – with only the minimum four golfers needed to produce a team score entered – generated a score of 518, last in the field of 12 teams entered (not all schools had enough players for a team score).
BROOKFIELD — It’s not a situation anywhere comparable to the New York Yankees’ 4-decades dominance of Major League Baseball from the 1920s into the early 1960s – dominance which by the 1950s had prompted popularity of the phrase “break up the Yankees” among fans of other clubs – particularly in the American League, but the still-fledgling Brookfield High School Bulldogs are enjoying a historic stretch of success of their own.
The Missouri Department of Conservation’s ongoing chronic waste disease detection efforts during last fall’s deer season have identified three counties where the deadly (to deer) disease had not been found before.
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A 2017 study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated that 792 million people across the globe lived with a mental health disorder. If that figure is startling, it's likely even greater as a result of the pandemic. Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation indicated that about four in 10 adults in the United States reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder during the pandemic. That marked a significant uptick since the summer of 2019, when one in 10 adults reported such symptoms.
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that turkey hunters checked 33,355 birds during Missouri’s 2022 regular spring turkey season, April 18 through May 8. Top regular season harvest counties were Franklin with 798 birds harvested, Callaway with 614, and Gasconade with 606.
The North Central Missouri College (NCMC) Business department is helping students prepare for careers in growing markets. Since the pandemic, many economic and cultural changes have affected the business world. As a result, we have made several changes to our degree programs at NCMC. Whatever your interest in business is, we offer courses that prepare you to enter the workforce with applicable skills in different areas.
Seven wineries on the Hermann Wine Trail have assembled the ingredients for a memorable Wine Country getaway at the 2022 Berries & BarBQ Wine Trail, July 30-31. “Vintners are celebrating the flavors of summer by pairing their wines with juicy berries and savory barbeque,” says Patty Held, president of the Hermann Wine Trail.
Registration is now available for the USDA Rural Development Missouri Virtual workshop on how to effectively apply for and manage federal grants. The Zoom webinar will be held May 26 at 10:00 a.m.
Three house fires in the Polo area on May 10 are being investigated as possible arson. The Caldwell County Sheriff ’s Office and State Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating.