Happy Birthday wish to Ernest Trentham, Angie Shiflett, Kim Albertson, Jerry Sallee, Jennifer Livingston, Nelson Dinsmore on January1, Tamara Evans on January 2, Kyle Adamek, Natalie Shiflett, J.W. Fitzpatrick, Phillip Martin, Paul Railey on January 3, Matilyn Nickell, Megan Gardner, Randy Muck on January 4, Steven Jackson, Michelle Myers, Alexa Young, on January 5, Dustin Neal, Tyler Long, Presley Knifong, Sherry Morgan, on January 6, Casey Jaynes on January 7.
Missouri boasts one of the largest deer herds in North America, topping one million in number. Missouri’s deer herd has been affected by Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in several counties.
Rick Dovell’s Bronze Star has been returned to his family. According to a press release, recently, Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced that his office returned a Bronze Star held in Unclaimed Property to Dovell’s family.
Meeting to discuss bus trips A meeting will be held at 2 p.m., Jan. 7 in Marceline at the Walsworth Community Center about Diamond Tours 2023 bus trips.
Mark L. Corbin, a 33year employee of the Missouri Department of Transportation (Mo-DOT), retired Jan. 1, 2023. Corbin began his MoDOT career as a part-time worker on the concrete crew at Brookfield in 1989. He was hired on full-time as a maintenance worker in 1990 and has worked there his entire career, retiring as a maintenance crew leader.
From local district competitions to national scholarship competitions, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) sponsors annual youth essay competitions, providing middle school students and high school students the unique opportunity to write and present essays for the Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest and the Voice of Democracy Essay Contest. The essay contests encourage students to improve their speaking and writing skills while learning how to express opinions and views on an annual patriotic theme. Marceline VFW Post #1471 honored Marceline area students and teachers on Wednesday, December 21, at their regular December meeting. Charles Krumpelman, Senior Vice Commander, presented the awards. Attendees enjoyed a reception with light refreshments after the essays and awards were presented.
A Chillicothe man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing the firearms he stole from a local business. According to a press release from the U.S.