Show Your Quilts At the Corn Festival Quilt Show
By Echo Menges The Knox County Kut-Ups Quilt Club is inviting quilt lovers of all ages and experience levels to display their quilts at this year’s Corn Festival Quilt Show. New quilters are encouraged to participate. Everyone is welcome! The annual event attracts quilters from throughout the region to show their work free of charge.…
Read MoreMilan FFA Students Named National Finalists
FFA Members, Teams Vie for Selection to Compete in 2025 National FFA Agriscience Fair Samuel Alvarez and Ethan Pearce of the Milan FFA chapter have been named finalists this year in the Social Sciences category in the Division IV of the National FFA Agriscience Fair. The team placed first in their division in April at…
Read MoreKAREN RUTH STRANG
Karen Ruth Strang (nee Jacobs) was born March 31, 1943 to Irwin Jacobs and Irma Jacobs (nee Crowder) in Trenton, Missouri and passed away on Thursday, August 14, 2025 in Shelby Township, Michigan at the age of 82. She grew up in a small town in rural Missouri, where she lived next door to her…
Read MoreJOHN J. PAYNE SR.
John J. Payne, Sr. was born at home on July 2, 1940, son of Harley and Mildred Payne of Green City, in a world much calmer and milder where life was familiar and predictable. Even though the USA would enter WWII only a year and a half later causing turmoil for the rest of the…
Read MoreGERALD ALFRED “JERRY” FEHR
Gerald A. (Jerry) Fehr, 83, of Kirksville, Missouri, passed away Saturday, August 9, 2025 at Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan, Missouri. Jerry was born January 19, 1942 in Saint Charles, Missouri, the son of the late Alfred and Aldine Fehr. Jerry is survived by his wife Dora Mae of the home; two sons, Dennis…
Read MoreGrundy Electric Coop Held 87th Annual Membership Meeting
Grundy Electric Cooperative’s Annual Membership Meeting was held August 7, 2025, at the Trenton High School in Trenton, Missouri. More than 200 members and guests attended the meeting, which featured key updates from cooperative leadership, financial reports, board elections, bylaw amendments, and prize drawings. Prior to the business meeting, GEC Community Foundation President Cliff Addison…
Read MoreBack to School Start Dates and Activities
By Phyllis Fleshman The five area schools will begin the 2025- 2026 year all on Tuesday, August 19, 2025. Milan, Linn County, Newtown- Harris and Grundy R-5 will continue to have the four day week. Green City will continue with the five day. The Milan C-2 PTO will sponsor a Back to School Bash on…
Read MoreMSHP Reminds Drivers Children Are Going Back to School
MSHP Press Release August has arrived and with it the 2025-2026 school year. The Missouri State Highway Patrol would like to encourage parents to include conversations about safety when preparing their students for school. It’s also important that drivers be prepared for the change in traffic patterns as students begin another year of instruction. In…
Read MoreAdair County Historical Society Highlights History of Green Castle Name Dispute
Submitted by April Dobrinske, Courtesy of the Adair County Historical Society Adair County’s neighboring county to the west is Sullivan County. Did you know they once had a struggle over the name of one of their towns — Greencastle. It seems that the O.K. Railroad put the name “Castle” on their depot, rather than the…
Read MoreBEVERLY JUNE JACKSON
Beverly June Jackson, 83, formerly of Green Castle, Missouri, passed away Sunday, August 10, 2025 at the Schuyler County Nursing Home. Beverly was born March 11, 1942 to Raymond H. and Clara Doreen (King) White. On June 24, 1959, she married the love of her life Larry Jackson, he preceded her in death in March.…
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