By Sheriff Scott Frazier Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 – The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office is proud to announce the addition of a full-time deputy bringing the Office to full staff. Eduardo “Eddie” Gonzalez was hired as an Academy Cadet in August of this year. Deputy Gonzalez completed his training at the University of Missouri Law Enforcement Training Institute and graduated on Dec. 11, 2025. Deputy Gonzalez was sworn in by Judge Adam Warren at 1:30 pm, Monday and started his field training. He is expected to complete field training in a couple of months. Deputy Gonzalez is the son of…

By Mike Scott, NEMOnews Media Group NORTHEAST MISSOURI — With winter weather forcing school closures across northeast Missouri, some residents are left wondering why student activities — such as basketball games — sometimes still go on. NEMOnews Media group contacted several area school superintendents who say student safety is always the top priority, even if conditions change throughout the day. “We always make our decisions on what is best and safest for kids,” said Ryan Bergeson, superintendent of Scotland County R-1. “Each situation is unique such as morning, afternoon, and evening temperatures. There are occasions when travel is not safe…

I sat in a very comfortable folding chair and had moved my electric heater from inside the cabin to the deck, where I would spend the evening deer hunting. It had been a quiet evening without seeing a deer, but that didn’t surprise me, as I fully expected the deer not to appear until the last 20 minutes of the day. There were plenty of tracks revealing that deer had been coming out to feed on the harvested cornfield I was hunting over. It was the Alternative Methods whitetail deer season, and unlike this year, a deer was needed to…

By David Sharp Green City (3- 0) adjusted to the graduation of several four year starting boys basketball players by transitioning to a lane based power attack, downing Brashear 61-39 in the boys championship game of the 82nd Annual Novinger Tournament. Clancy Ballinger led all scorers with 27 Green City points. Zane Patterson hammered home 19 points. Connor Pinkerton scored eight Gopher points. Ivan Littrell scored seven Green City points. Littrell is the lone returning starter from the 2023-24 boys district championship team. Levi Clark drove the lane for a 4-0 Brashear lead with a minute off the first quarter…

By: David Sharp Green City employed a strong inside-outside game to hand conference rival La Plata a 49- 39 loss in the girls championship game of the 2025 Novinger Tournament. Jaryn Hatcher helped Green City control the boards along with a game high 23 point night. Junior guard Macy Jeffries tossed in 22 points along with a ball handling and defensive presence on the perimeter. Green City led 7-4 after the first quarter and were pretty much in control most of the contest Jaryn Hatcher fired in a three pointer from the wing for a 15-4 lead with 5:21 showing…

Wayne Clem, age 94, of Lebanon, died at 8:28 a.m. Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at Memorial Hospital East in Shiloh. He was born February 3, 1931 in Milan, Missouri, the son of the late Milford and Margaret (Caldwell) Clem. He married Joyce Norman Aug. 20, 1955 in Milan, Missouri. She survives. Also surviving are three children: Sandra (Robert) Johnson of O’Fallon, Illinois, David (Peggy) Clem of Blackhawk, Colorado and Mark Clem of Lebanon; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a niece, Margaret (Randy) Lees of Ft. Meyers, Florida.

Buddy Lee Nickell, 93 of Milan, MO, passed from this life into Heaven on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at Sullivan County Memorial Hospital. He was surrounded by his wife, Vera, local family and listened to loving goodbyes from his family living in the states of Alaska and Washington. Buddy, was the first of five children born to James Dewey Nickell and Hazel Mary Coon Nickell, born on July 28, 1932, near Milan, Missouri. He attended rural Eggleston Grade School and later graduated from Milan High School in 1951; the largest graduating class Milan ever had. He entered the United States…

Milan pet food plant to close in January; layoffs hit nearly 5% of county workforce By Echo Menges The Sullivan County community is reeling after learning the Simmons pet food plant is slated to be closed just one month into the new year. Local government officials and Simmons employees were notified on Wednesday, Dec. 3, of the coming closure in accordance with federal law, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, 29 U.S. Code § 2101–2109. The WARN Act requires employers with 100 or more workers to give local governments and employees at least 60 days’ notice of mass…