FORUM FLASHBACKS: April 11-12

By Phil Cobb | April 11, 2019 |

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Cast members of the 1994 Maryville High School Production of “Guys and Dolls” are shown on stage during a dress rehearsal. A Broadway classic, the musical tells the story of “gamblers and saving souls” amidst scenes from New York City nightlife in the early 1950s.

25 years ago

The wheels are in full motion for those involved with the musical production of “Guys and Dolls” set to take place this week at Maryville High School.
Dress rehearsals this week indicate show time is near for the cast. Starting time is set for 8 p.m. each night, with the inaugural performance slated for Thursday night. The musical can also be seen Friday and Saturday night.
According to Music Instructor Marilyn Rhea, the show is set in New York during 1951 and is the story of “gamblers and saving souls.”
An orchestra, the staff, crew and the cast translates into numerous people being involved in the production.
Maryville has a new mayor. With a unanimous vote, the Maryville City Council approved a motion from Councilwoman Bridget Brown naming Councilman Dale Mathes the city’s new mayor near the end of Monday night’s council meeting.
Mathes replaces Gerald “Doc” Henggeler as the city’s mayor. Councilman Bob Huffman, who was elected to the council by voters last week, fills the vacancy left by Henggeler on the council. Henggeler, who did not seek re-election to the council, is running for the Nodaway County Presiding Commissioner’s seat.

15 years ago

Secretary of State Matt Blunt is encouraging eligible high school seniors throughout Missouri to register and vote in this year’s elections as part of the Missouri First Vote Program administered by his office and funded through private donations.
Area high school seniors are being encouraged to vote in the upcoming election. Nodaway County Clerk Beth Hann sends each Nodaway County high school registration forms for students in the senior classes.
“I haven’t seen a great increase in the number of 18-year-old citizens registering to vote,” Hann said. “I have been working on this since last December, starting by sending the registration forms to the superintendent of the schools, but there was little response.”
It may have been a little uncustomarily chilly outside this past weekend, but Bearcat bats provided all the necessary heat with a monster power surge in a three-game home series sweep over Pittsburg State.
Northwest Missouri State won 13-8 on Friday and on Saturday completed the sweep by winning 19-2 and 8-7.
The Bearcats baseball team has now won seven of its last eight ball games to improve its record to 25-13 overall and 11-7 in the MIAA.
Heading into the weekend the Bearcats were mired near the bottom of the conference in sixth place; that will certainly change now as they will definitely jump past Pittsburg State at least.

5 years ago

Three Iowa men were indicted this week by a federal grand jury for the armed robbery of the Citizens Bank & Trust branch in Burlington Junction, according to an announcement released by the office of U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Tammy Dickinson.
Donald D. Kestner Jr., 26 and Torrence Joseph O’Neill, 26, both of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and Travis Joe Davis, 27, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, were charged in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City.
Wednesday’s indictments allege that Kestner, O’Neill and Davis stole $12,282 from the bank on March 21, 2014.
Almost three months ago Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced she was upholding the decision of Nodaway County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Rice not to file felony charges in a case of alleged rape at a teenage party in Maryville.
Recently Peters Baker was back in town to talk to Northwest Missouri State University students about how the legal system works to protect victims of sexual assault.
The rape investigation and its aftermath caused a weeks-long stir in the national media following Rice’s controversial decision, which led to Baker’s appointment as special prosecutor.