Local winners of the American Legion Auxiliary Americanism Essay Contest attended awards night and a dinner at the Livingston County Veterans Building on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. The essay theme this year was “What does patriotism mean to you?”
Entering last week, Brookfield High School’s baseball Bulldogs were a .500 team with a 2-2 record. Despite back-to-back Clarence Cannon Conference losses as the week’s action got going, they managed to exit it the same way – at .500.
Fundraising is ongoing for the Brook_eld Junction Park, located at the corner of North Main Street and East Boston Street near Brook_eld Library, where area residents can see some of the early steps in the transformation of the park. Most recently sidewalks were poured.
1928-2023 Alice Adele Barnett (Bradley) 95, passed April 5, 2023 in Chesterfield, MO. Adele, daughter of the late Ronald and Esther (Hyde) Bradley of Linneus, MO was born March 18, 1928.
With the National Football League set to momentarily wedge its way back onto center stage in the region the latter half of next week when it conducts its annual draft of college players at Kansas City’s Union Station April 27-29, neither of Missouri’s Major League Baseball teams has done anything thus far to make it a _ght for fans’ attention once that time arrives.
With five event wins, Brookfield High School’s track-and-field Lady Bulldogs were a strong runnerup to Higginsville (Lafayette County) in the team competition in last Thursday’s Gary Ferguson Relays meet hosted by Trenton. With both the blue-and-white 800- and 1,600-meters relay groups “breaking the tape, Samantha Sharp sweeping the 1,600- and 3,200-meters runs (and being second in the 800), and Kylin King capturing the 400, Brookfield’s girls accumulated 85 team points.
Several strong individual rounds were produced by Marceline and Brookfield high school golfers last week as those schools hosted their annual 18-holes tournaments on consecutive, sun-splashed days. A week ago today, Marceline’s Tigers used second- and fourthplace individual finishes from Braden Lichtenberg and Lance O’Dell to power a third-place team showing in the MHS Invitational at the Marceline Country Club.
Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (04/18/23). Savor beauty, truth and goodness this year.
Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) announced that he is currently accepting applications from North Missouri students interested in attending the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, U.S. Military Academy, or U.S. Naval Academy.
Missouri Highway Patrol’s Troop H is offering a boating safety course to inform and motivate boaters to prepare for the upcoming boating season. This approved course meets the national boating educational standard.