People & Living

Main Street was buzzing with summer charm this past week as Sophie Smith set up her seasonal stand in front of Grandma Patty’s Palace. With a table full of homemade  Continue Reading »

The Linden Christian Church is hosting an Ice Cream Social Saturday, August 9, at 6:00 p.m. Join the congregation for a deliciously cool treat at the church, located at 17191  Continue Reading »

The Fairfax Fair is just around the corner and the more the merrier when it comes to booths of food and games at the park. The Fairfax Optimist Club wants  Continue Reading »

The Nodaway County household hazardous waste (HHW) collection site will be open Saturday, August 9, 2025, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The HHW collection site is located at the  Continue Reading »

The Atchison County Library invites adults to join “Adult Book Chat” at the Fairfax Library, held every second Thursday of the month from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Each month features  Continue Reading »

Join the Atchison County Health Department and Community Hospital-Fairfax for milk and cookies at a community baby shower Wednesday, August 13,  to celebrate Breastfeeding Awareness Month. All expecting parents and  Continue Reading »

The Atchison County Library will hold the first-ever Books & Breezes Kite Festival, a  family-friendly event that brings the community together to celebrate reading, creativity, and the wonder of flight.  Continue Reading »

The first meeting of a new, local Alzheimer’s Support Group will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, August 7, 2025, at the Rock Port Senior Center, 505 S. Country Club Drive  Continue Reading »

The following is a list of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in Atchison County for the week of July 28 to August  Continue Reading »

Blake Dodson joined his siblings, Kasen and Journey, in splashing around some water puddles that formed from heavy rains falling over Tarkio last week. The parking lot at the football  Continue Reading »

The Atchison County Library hosted a Lego Club event at the Tarkio Library Thursday, July 24, 2025. Kids from preschool to sixth grade built Lego race cars. Pictured below with  Continue Reading »

What nocturnal predator made away with the owl statue that has sat on this stump between Fairfax and Tarkio on Hwy. 59 for quite some time? The owl was nailed  Continue Reading »