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“Taking Care of You” is a multi-session program offering practical strategies and experiences to help you deal with the stress in your life. Managing life’s challenges in a healthy way allows you to improve your overall wellness. Each week you will explore topics through small group discussion, self-reflection, and activities. The program’s activities are aimed at increasing mindfulness, positive emotions, optimism, resiliency to stress, coping skills, and self-care of your body, mind and spirit.

Women in agriculture can improve their risk management skills and network with peers during Annie’s Project courses scheduled for spring 2022. Hosted by University of Missouri Extension, Annie’s Project courses feature 18 hours of risk management education.

The statewide gas price average in Missouri is $3.22 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, according to the AAA Missouri Weekend Gas Watch. That price is four cents more compared to this day last week and is 80 cents more per gallon compared to this day last year. Of the major metropolitan areas surveyed in Missouri, drivers in Jefferson City are paying the most on average at $3.28 while drivers in Joplin are paying the least at $3.11 per gallon. The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded is $3.54, which is two cents more compared to this day last week and 88 cents more than the price per gallon at this same time last year, according to AAA Gas Prices.

Snow and ice brought their own unique challenges to driving during the month of February. As temperatures warm this week, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is focusing on the potholes left in the road with all the fluctuating temperatures and precipitation.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — In the port city of Mariupol, where Ukrainians are trying to fend off a Russian advance, an ambulance raced into a city hospital Sunday, carrying a 6-year-old girl mortally injured in Russian shelling.

Last Tuesday, Feb. 22 filing began for the August 2, primary election.

Nearly half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests the Biden administration recently made available to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test.

The Linn County Commission met Feb. 15 with Commissioners King, Murrain and Muck and Clerk Stephenson present.

At about 3:26 p.m., on Thursday, Feb. 24, officers with the Chillicothe Police Department responded to the railroad overpass at U.S. Highway 36 and Mitchell Road where a large piece of farm machinery had become wedged underneath the bridge.