Area News
Lady Cats Win Season Opener
The Milan Ladycats opened their softball season outlawing the Brashear Tigers 5 to 4 on Saturday, August 28, 2021. Milan trailed the entire contest until exploding for 4 runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take a 5-3 lead. Some timely hits, plus costly errors proved the difference. Base hits were scarce for…
Read MoreRardon Children Donate to Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House Tabs – Decker Rardon and family of Wheeling, Missouri, delivered 203 pounds of tabs for the Ronald McDonald House in Columbia on July 21. The pandemic has changed the drop off procedure and last year the event was cancelled so this was actually more than a year of collections. Many individuals in…
Read MoreBack to School Area School Enrollment Numbers
Enrollment for the five area schools for 2021-2022 is 1127, down from the enrollment figure of 1244 in 2020-2021. Following is a breakdown for each school. Milan C-2 reports an enrollment of 634, up 25 since last year. Kindergarten through 6th grade had 329, 7th through 12th 305. Individual class breakdown is as follows: 2021…
Read MoreGrundy County R-V Announces New Staff and Teachers
Grundy County R-V School would like to introduce our new staff and our teacher for the new Pre-School we are opening this year. Pictured front row l(eft to right): Mrs. Lindsay Rhoades, Third Grade; Pre-School Teacher Mrs. Tiffany Carver; and Ms.Sam DeRyke, Kindergarten; back row (left to right): Mrs. Niki Edmondston, Middle School and High…
Read MoreGreen City Post Office Deemed Unsafe, City Will Tear It Down
By John Garlock, Courtesy of KTVO-TV Channel 3 GREEN CITY, Mo. — A U.S. post office in a small northeast Missouri community is now closed due to an unstable exterior wall and other structural issues. A letter dated August 13, 2021, is taped on the front door of the Green City Post Office. It states…
Read MoreMann Receives MRTA Grant
GRANT AWARD – Missouri Retired Teacher Association awarded a $500 grant to Ms. Brianna Mann, an elementary music teacher from the Green City School District. Ms Mann will use the funds to start an ukulele music program. The $500 grant was awarded to Ms Mann by MRTA Region 3 Vice President, Jane Callis. MRTA is…
Read MoreGreen City R-1 Awarded by Tri-County Conference
On Thursday, Aug. 12, Green City R-1 had the opportunity to host the Tri-County Conference annual meeting. At the meeting, conference champions from the 2020-2021 school year were presented with their plaques. Green City received 6 plaques. The All-Sports Champion presented to Jamie Tipton, High School Principal. The Conference Baseball plaque was presented to Dale…
Read MoreBack to School Start Dates and Activities
The five area schools will begin the 2021-2022 year beginning August 23rd and August 24th. Linn County School will open on Tuesday, August 24th with their Open House on Monday the 23rd from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Green City School will open on Monday, August 23rd with their Open House on Thursday, August 19th.…
Read MoreRoeslein and Smithfield Looking to the Future of Turning Manure into Energy
By Echo Menges North Missouri – Monday, August 16, 2020 – Two years after announcing their joint venture to harvest natural gas from hog manure in Milan, MO, the upper echelon representatives of Smithfield Foods, Inc. and Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) migrated back to Northern Missouri for another announcement: The North Missouri arm of the…
Read MoreRising Postal Rates Force Subscription Increases
Sooner or later, the day had to come. The post office has announced an 8.8 percent increase on periodicals postage, effective August 29, 2021. That’s on top of their 1.456 percent increase earlier in 2021, and their nearly 2 percent increase in January of 2020. In fact, since 2017, the postage we pay to mail…
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