People & Living

By Cynthia Walker Burton Effortlessly floating via winds on high, Have you seen a monarch flying by? Graceful, colorful, punctuating the sky, A delicate monarch is flying by. Amidst autumn  Continue Reading »

The photos represent, starting at the lower left corner: Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Horstman; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Redeker; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rolf, and that includes, George Rolf, Mrs.  Continue Reading »

Sealing roads has been used as a preventative maintenance treatment for many years on roadways across the state. A sealing treatment uses an oil to fill small cracks in road  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 September 23-29. Continued flooding  Continue Reading »

The Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Site will be open Saturday, October 5, 2019. from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The collection site is located at the Nodaway County Maintenance  Continue Reading »

More than 10,000 individuals have accepted the Buckle Up Phone Down Challenge according to the Missouri Department of Transportation and Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety. The milestone announcement follows quickly  Continue Reading »

The fourth annual “Pink Pumpkin Walk” will be held Saturday, October 19, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. at Indian Cave State Park. This walk is for all cancer survivors and in  Continue Reading »

Waterfowl hunting may be limited at some MDC conservation areas in the Missouri River bottoms north of Forest City this fall due to flood damage to roads and bridges, and  Continue Reading »

Agricultural producers affected by natural disasters in 2018 and 2019 can apply through the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+). Sign-up for this U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program  Continue Reading »

By Senator Dan Hegeman District 12 While lawmakers were in Jefferson City during the week of Sept. 9, we had the chance to discuss the latest appointments to several of  Continue Reading »

Missouri entered the Union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821, and will celebrate 200 years of Statehood on August 10, 2021. In 1836, the United States government acquired  Continue Reading »

State and federal officials urge Missourians to strongly consider purchasing flood insurance; history shows that on average a flood-related disaster occurs nearly once a year in this state. Depending on  Continue Reading »