May 2023
Brookfield Senior Center menu
There is a $3 suggested contribution for meals for those 60 years and over and $6.75 cost for meals for those 59 years and under. Meals are delivered Monday thru Friday, from 10:30 a.m., – 12 p.m., except on holidays.
West Linn News
The Linn County Farm Bureau Board met Thursday, May 18, in Brookfield. Those in attendance were Steve and Jill Hardy, Dana Lane, Caleb Henke, Hannah Kiehl, Holly Switzer, Donald Herring and Racheal Osterman.
Full-Slate Sharp, King, Girls’ Relays Headline BHS State Track Group
Led by six to eight relay runners and sophomore distance ace Samantha Sharp, Brookfield High School will be involved in eight events – six girls’ and two boys’ – at this Friday’s and Saturday’s Class 2 Missouri State High School Activities Association Track-and-Field Championships at Jefferson City High School’s “Pete” Adkins Stadium. Sharp will have a full plate of state competition, assuming she again is part of Friday’s 3,200-meters relay final, as she was at sectional last Saturday.
Marceline High School celebrates 48 graduates
On Sunday, May 14 - Mother’s Day - the Class of 2023 graduated from Marceline R-V High School. The class of 48 students walked into commencement ceremony to the traditional”Pomp and Circumstance”.
ADA MAXINE (STONE) BALL
Ada Maxine (Stone) Ball, age 96, of Brookfield, Missouri, passed away Friday, May 12, 2023, at McLarney Manor in Brookfield, Missouri. Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 20, 2023, at 11:00 a.m.
Cardinals Suggest Turnaround, Royals Continue Sputtering
Chiefs’ schedule has them opening at home vs Lions on Thursday, Sept. 7 With the 2023 Major League Baseball season nearing or passing its “quarter pole” pole last weekend, the paths of Missouri teams showed signs of diverging, at last.
Brookfield, Marceline Carried County Diamond Mantle into New Week
Both Brookfield, which early last week clinched its first-ever winning season in the program’s third of existence, and Marceline extended their high school baseball seasons into this week, but the three Linn County (or adjacent) Class 1 teams and one of the two Class 2 clubs had 2023 play close last week with first-round district- tournament defeats. Brookfield wrapped up its regular season early last week with triumphs over Novinger (15-1) and Princeton (5-4) (no specifics on either game were reported, despite a standing request and weekend reminder).
LINDA C. BLACK HOROSCOPES
Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (05/16/23). The world is your oyster this year.
County, Bordering Class 1 Schools Send Seven to State Track, Field
With three apiece from Meadville and Mendon: Northwestern and one from Linn County R-1, county and bordering Class 1 schools will have limited involvement in this Friday’s and Saturday’s state track-and-field championships at Jefferson City High School’s “Pete” Adkins Stadium. The highest-qualified of those “lucky” seven are Meadville’s girls’ 1,600-meters relay unit of Kinlee Fletcher, Lexi Bartz, Makayla Scheib, and Madison Carvajal, which posted a 4:27.49, and Northwestern’s 3,200 relay quartet of Lily Willis, Jaden Mauzey, Taylor Fry, and Madi Ostermann, which completed its eight laps in 10:49.67.