April 2024

Marceline’s O’Dell Third in Conference Golf Tourney

MOBERLY — With a season-best overall performance, paced by third-place individual Lance O’Dell, Marceline High School’s golf Tigers earned a solid third-place team finish, as well, in their final Lewis and Clark Conference Boys’ Championships a week ago.With O’Dell firing an 83 on the Heritage Hills Golf Course and Ethan Tarpening leading the other four varsity-lineup members in breaking 100, the Tigers came away with a low-4 team score of 368 for the 18-holes tournament, only eight shots behind runnerup Harrisburg.

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Around Linn County

Brookfield Area Community Chest Accepting ApplicationsBrookfield Area Community Chest announces that they will be accepting applications for grant money through May 25.

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OUTDOORS: Youth Turkey Harvest Most Since 2017

Missouri’s young turkey hunters, despite the high wind both days, had a great youth-only season on April 6-7, checking in 3,721 turkeys.The 2015 youth season’s total of 4,100 was the last of three previous seasons to exceed 4,000 turkeys taken and that includes the youth-season record of 4,441 checked in in 2015.The top three youth-season harvest counties statewide this year were Gasconade with 92, Franklin with 89, and Miller with 83.

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