Obituary - Terry Nash

Terry Nash, age 40, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Thursday, November 30, 2017.

Funeral services are pending at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel.

Anyone know anything about this?

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Bates County Sheriff';s Office at 6606793232

Job Opening In Harrisonville

Miami R-1 seeking people interested in joining the school board

The Miami R-I School District encourages qualified persons interested in running for a position on the School Board to file to be a candidate in the April 3, 2018 election.

Interested persons may file at the superintendent's office located at 7638 NW State Route J, Amoret, MO 64722. For more information contact Dr. Daniel Johnson or Marilyn Lindsay at 660-267-3480.

Filing will begin on Tuesday December 12, 2017, at 8:00 a.m. and will continue during the district's regular business hours, which are Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Monday December 18th 2017. Except for the first and last day of filing, filing will not occur on days that the school district's central offices are closed due to inclement weather. 

Filing will also not occur on the following holidays and breaks when the school district's central offices are closed: Closing at 12:30p.m.on Friday, December 22nd, 2017 and closed all day , December 26, 2017 thru Wednesday, January 3, 2018 Filing will end on January 16, 2018, at 5:00 p.m.

Placement on the ballot to be determined by order of filing.
There are Two (2) positions available with three-year terms.

From the desk of Missouri Governor Eric Grietens

Today, kids, teachers, and families won. The State Board of Education voted for new leadership for our school system. That's a major step in the right direction as we work to improve public education in Missouri.

We need to: raise teacher pay, support public schools, and help students succeed. We need to make sure that the money Missourians spend on schools gets out of the bureaucracy—and into the classroom.

Our teachers need a raise. If they just got paid at the national average, they'd make nearly $10,000 more a year. Meanwhile, we've got more administrators than most of the country, and their pay is rising more than twice as fast as teacher pay. Some make big bucks—more than $250,000 a year—while too many teachers struggle to get by.


And from 2009 to 2015, Missouri fell from 18th to 28th in fourth-grade reading and from 23rd to 32nd in eighth-grade math. According to ACT testing, three out of every four kids who graduate from Missouri high schools aren't ready for college.

These problems have gone on too long. We're demanding better. Because our teachers deserve it. Because our students deserve it.

I support public education. We added $64,000,000 in the budget for public schools. More money than ever before is being spent on education. We fully funded the system for the first time in years.

The bureaucrats took your money. Teachers didn't get a raise. Juniors in high school had the ACT cut.

The bureaucrats had their chance. They failed our kids.

Defenders of the status quo have been nasty. They harass, call names, and intimidate. Many of them have big salaries that they don't want to lose, and records they don't want to be held accountable for.

Well, today things have changed: Kids come first.

From the desk of Missouri Governor Eric Grietens 

Job Opening In Appleton City

Food Drive for Children in Vernon County

The Vernon County Sheriff’s Office will once again be taking food donations to be delivered to families with children who could use some help this Christmas!

Donations will be taken from December 1st through the 21st

Non-perishable food items can be taken to the Sheriff’s Office Monday-Friday from 8am-4pm. For questions, additional drop-off times, or suggestions on the types of food that can be donated please call 417-283-4366.

With the help of the public, last year was a great success with food boxes taken to more than a dozen families.

Stealing in Appleton City

On Nov. 27, a St. Clair County deputy was advised by the St. Clair County Communications Division of a call for service in reference to a theft.

The deputy made contact via the phone to the victim, Adam Strope. Strope said between the hours of 9:00 p.m. on Friday, November 25, 2017 and 9:30 a.m. of November 26, 2017 three of nine trail cameras were stolen from his property off of Highway H south of Highway O.

Strope said the cameras were in the woods on his property. The cameras missing are a Bushnell trail camera and the second was a Browning trail camera. Total value of the cameras is $315.
Strope stated there was also a camera missing that the Missouri Conservation owned. Both parties involved desired prosecution.