People & Living

Letters to Santa can be emailed to dearsanta@rpt.coop or dropped off at the North Pole mailbox at the Atchison County Mail. Letters will be printed (as submitted) in the Atchison  Continue Reading »

The mean old Grinch tried to take letters out of Santa’s mailbox at the Atchison County Mail last week. Fortunately, the letters were safe when Santa arrived later that day.  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 December 15-21. There may  Continue Reading »

The Tarkio Nutrition Center has launched their Adopt-a-Senior project. This initiative is designed to support homebound seniors in our community by providing them with warm meals and small gifts during  Continue Reading »

Tarkio/Westboro/Fairfax Food Pantry The Tarkio/Westboro/Fairfax Food Pantry is currently low on the following items: fruits (15-20 oz. – mixed fruit, peaches, pears, pineapple, mandarin oranges), tomato juice (46 oz. can),  Continue Reading »

Henry Waigand enjoys reading the Atchison County Mail while eating his morning cereal. (Submitted photo)

The Atchison County Library held a cupcake decorating class with Among 3 Measures’ Melissa Heintz at the Tarkio branch Wednesday, December 3, 2025. Some of the people who enjoyed honing  Continue Reading »

Kemper Elenor Joesting recently celebrated her first birthday surrounded by family and friends in Columbia, Missouri. Kemper was born on December 9, 2024, at 1:08 p.m. She weighed 7 pounds  Continue Reading »

Bryli (Staten) Lager, second from left, former Tarkio, Missouri, resident, was presented the 4th Annual Peve Award for Nursing Excellence. These awards recognize Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville caregivers who  Continue Reading »

Joshua Brent Medina, III Krisaley Johnson and Joshua Medina, Jr. of Fairfax, Missouri, are pleased to announce the birth of their baby boy, Joshua Brent Medina, III. Joshua was born  Continue Reading »

Pastor Brad Dush, representing the Fairfax Optimist Club, presented a check to Chief Tyson Gibbons on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, in support of the Holiday With Heroes program serving Atchison  Continue Reading »

by Cindy Walker Burton In November, an aluminum platter was passed around my church congregation with a Sharpie marker. Was it time to confess sins publicly on a pew to  Continue Reading »