American Red Cross Blood Drive June 6 An American Red Cross Blood drive is being held from 1:30-5:30 p.m., June 6 at the Walsworth Community Center, 124 E Ritchie St., Marceline. Wright Funeral Home 75th Anniversary Celebration Wright Funeral Home, Brookfield, is celebrating its 75th Anniversary with a community celebration.
In the early 1930s Sumner native Harold Bell Wright was working for a local businessman who had plans of opening a funeral home in Sumner. Wright then saved money to attend mortuary school in St. Louis. In 1932 he graduated from Hohenschuh-Carpenter College of Embalming before returning to Sumner. In the midst of the Great Depression that businessman was unable to open the funeral home. In 1934, following the death of M.Y. Rusk, his wife, Augusta Rusk, called Wright and he soon began working for Rusk Funeral Home and then in 1927 Harold and Elisabeth Wright bought Rusk Funeral Home and changed the name to Wright Funeral Home.
For the next two weeks there will be ongoing work to the facade in the front of Marceline's City Hall. According to a press release from Marceline City Manager Richard Hoon, The city has contracted with STAAT, Inc.
The Linn County Leader will once again have an office front in Linn County as of today, June 1. The office will be located in Marceline at 118 N, Main Street USA, next to Marceline's City Hall.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Not much rattles The Iceman at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, not even record speeds. Scott Dixon smashed the Indianapolis 500 pole-winning record with a breathtaking qualifying run of more than 234 mph.
Regional Missouri Bank recently participated in the American Banking Associations 25th annual Teach Children to Save Day by visiting second grade classrooms at Walt Disney Elementary and Father McCartan Memorial School in Marceline.
Brookfield Class of 2022 graduated during a ceremony held on Sunday, May 22 in the high school gym. Students recognized with Top 10 % Acadmic Achievement included: Alayna Arnold, Carly Clarkson, Mitchell Day, Ryan McIntyre, Trent Polly, Scarlet Polson and Alex Sharp. Alex Sharp was named Valedictorian and Alayna Arnold was Salutatorian.
Georgie I. Burstert, age 88 of Brookfield, formerly of the Wien area, died Thursday, May 19, 2022 at Life Care Center of Brookfield. Georgie was born in Bucklin, Missouri on December 9, 1933 to John and Cecil (Teeter) Wolfskill. She married Orville Burstert on October 2, 1954 and he preceded her in death.
CHILLICOTHE — With a roster which includes one recent Linn County high school graduate and might have another county resident back with it for a second time, the opening game of the Chillicothe Mudcats’ 20th season of college-level, wood-bat, summer baseball action is set for this coming Tuesday with their home opener the following evening.
In the final act of her stellar Brookfield High School distance-running career, recent BHS graduate “Alex” Sharp stands on the MSHSAA Class 2 State Track-and-Field Championships medals stand wearing the medal she’s just received for her fourth-place in the 3,200-meters run last Saturday (May 21). The medal was the ninth state-meet medal in Sharp’s three seasons of high school track competition (her would-be sophomore year was canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic). The Tulane University-bound BHS standout was a 2-times state champion in both track and cross-country running. (Group photo) Marceline High School Lady Tigers (from left) Cassi Rodgers, Gracey Jordan, Ramzee Bruner, and Finley Watson smile from the medals stand at Jefferson City High School’s “Pete” Adkins Stadium as photos are taken by media members following presentation of the medals for the Class 2 state championships 800-meters relay last Saturday afternoon. The quartet – in that order – placed fifth the 2-laps race in 1:52.04 after having an even-faster time (1:50.24) in the qualifying preliminary race the day before. Jordan and Bruner also medaled in individual events. (Paul Sturm/LCL PHOTOS)