August 2022
Local Artists Win At State Fair
Recently, the North Missouri Art Council announced that local artists Nora Othic, Gloria Gooch and Barbara Garvey won awards at the Missouri State Fair. Othic won a Top 50 Award, Garvey received an Honorable Mention and Gooch won two awards in the Amateur division.
Dock Work Begins
The Marceline Street Department started work on the anchor points and pad for the new fishing dock at the Country Club Lake, according to a post on social media by the City of Marceline. The new 16’ x 24’ ADA compliant covered floating dock is part of a larger grant project made possible through a Land Water Conservation 50/50 Grant (LWCF) with contributions from Alpha Nu Beta, Whitetails Unlimited, Marceline Recreation & Park Board, Marceline Volunteer Fire Department and Marceline Rotary.
New Marceline coach eyes old success
By PAUL STURM LCL/C-T Sports Editor psturm@cherryroad.com With about 50 players on the roster, the 2022 Marceline High School Tigers kick off their new season today (Saturday, Aug. 27) against southeast Missouri’s Perryville: St.
Reshaping Both Lines Keys for ’Dogs
By PAUL STURM LCL/C-T Sports Editor psturm@cherryroad.com This season’s Brookfield Bulldogs look to improve on an up-and-down 4-6 season of a year ago that included a midseason 3-games winning streak which briefly pushed them above .500 in Cory Luke’s debut as head coach, On the “plus” side of the balance sheet when assessing the prospects for a winning fall this year are quite a few returnees in the offensive “skill” position and at the “second level” of the defense.
Chillicothe High Sschool Hornets
“We’re just trying to develop depth there,” states Smith, who serves as offensive coordinator. Elsewhere on offense, there’s a greater sense of certainty, even with the lack of an experienced quarterback after graduated Gage Leamer handled nearly all the snaps the past two years.
Lines Likely Nexus of Hornets’ Hopes
By PAUL STURM C-T/LCL Sports Editor ptarmic@cherryroad.com Once common, but something of a rarity recently, this year’s Chillicothe High School Hornets – while surely havtng higher targets – initially hope to achieve something their program surprisingly has done only once in the past 12 years: Post consecutive winning seasons. From 1963-2009, the football Hornets had non-winning records only three times (once finishing at .500), but then the landscape shifted.
Limited Roster Is More Experienced
By PAUL STURM C-T/LCL Sports Editor psturm@cherryroad.com Following a peerless start to the ’20s in which all the stars aligned, leading to – on the heels of a runnerup finish in 2019 – Missouri’s 8-man state championship two falls ago, the Southwest Livingston Wildcats football team went through a predictable transitional season in 2021. With a new head coach and nearly- all-new starting lineup, the co-op team comprised of Southwest, Tina- Avalon, and Hale high school students had a trying season, but avoided a full crash-and-burn scenario, managing to claim three victories in 10 tries.
Hamilton Seeking As Much or More
By PAUL STURM C-T/LCL Sports Editor psturm@cherryroad.com Few high school programs have generated the successive success Hamilton’s Penney Hornets have over the past 13 years – four undefeated state championships, beginning with unprecedented back-to-back crowns in Class 1 and then Class 2 in 2009-10; five state title-game appearances; 11 district championships and state-playoffs berths; nine double- digits wins seasons; at least nine victories in all but one of the previous 13 campaigns and nary a losing mark. A 148-31 cumulative won-lost record.