The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Smallmouth Alliance (MSA) invite anglers to test their fishing skills and pursue a “Smallmouth Slam” by fishing MDC’s 12 Special Management Areas for bass to receive related pins and medallions.
Dear Amy: My best friend recently attended her professional association's top producers' banquet. "Brian," a very successful man from another firm, groped her bottom two times at the event.
Unit 57 Green Hills American Legion Auxiliary distributed poppies on Thursday, May 26 at Prenger Foods in Bucklin in honor of present and past Veterans. Poppy Days was honored on May 27, this year. Two Unit 57 members Judy Dinneen and Connie Teeter are pictured helping with distributing.
A crowd of local and area supporters of the University of Missouri-Columbia and fans of Tigers athletics mingle, schmooze, and visit during the May 18 Chillicothe stop on this spring’s and summer’s MU promotional “Come Home Tour.” Among the university delegation attending the event at the Blackwater Restaurant and Lounge in downtown Chillicothe was Desirée Francois-Reed (in background at far left, facing camera while chatting with long-time Chillicothe attorney Dave Macoubrie, whose son attended and played football at Mizzou in the late 1970s and early ’80s), who is nearing completion of her first year in the high-profile, high-pressure position of director of athletics. She made her first major coaching staff decision a couple of months ago, choosing to replace Cuonzo Martin as men’s basketball head coach and hiring Dennis Gates to try to revive the fortunes of the basketball Tigers. (Photo courtesy of Eric Turner)
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.
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.
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.
Ongoing • Sewing Class at the Brookfield YMCA. Free sewing class on Mondays and Thursdays at 10 a.m.
• 1932 Harold Bell Wright graduated from Hohenschuh-Carpenter College of Embalming in St. Louis.