Forum Flashbacks, Sept. 17-Sept. 23
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Dozens of small airplanes and helicopters were on hand to dazzle spectators at the 30th annual Maryville Flying Club Fly-In on Sunday at the Northwest Missouri Regional Airport. The Maryville Pride Lions Club served breakfast, and airplane rides were available to spectators.
25 years ago
- Northwest Missouri State University football head coach Mel Tjeerdsma stood smiling from ear to ear after being drenched with Gatorade for the first time in 13 games as the Bearcats’ coach.
While Tjeerdsma has always claimed not to think much about the Bearcats’ school-record, 17-game losing streak, he cannot help but appreciate his team’s 45-13 thrashing of Southwest Baptist University yesterday at Rickenbrode Stadium as more than just another win.
It was “the” win; the one that ended the skid. It was Tjeerdsma’s “first” as head coach of the Bearcats.
“We knew it was coming,” he said after the game. “I did anyway. I really didn’t feel like there was any way we would lose this ball game. I have a lot of confidence in this ball club.” - It didn’t exactly happen the way city officials had planned, but a St. Joseph-based company arrived in Maryville this morning to begin one of the most inclusive street overlay projects in recent Maryville history.
The Maryville City Council has allocated $150,000 for the project, which city officials had initially anticipated would be done by another company which is in Maryville to do work for the state.
“That company had asphalt already up here, so we thought we could have the work done at a good price because they would not have to haul it over any sort of distance,” Assistant Maryville City Manager Ron Brohammer said. “Just to make sure we were getting the best deal around, though, we started checking out other offers.
Herzog came back with a bid that Brohammer said the city “could not refuse.”
Work began today on East Seventh Street and will stretch from Main to Depot streets.
15 years ago
- Hy-Vee employees and local officials gathered at the Maryville grocery store on Friday to see the progress of a large-scale expansion project at the store.
The new portion of the store will be built next to the existing Hy-Vee store, in space formerly occupied by an Easter’s supermarket. The store will be constructed in stages, according to Mark Brauer, assistant vice president of engineering for Hy-Vee, Inc.
“We are starting work now on the new portion of the store,” Brauer said. “When the new portion of the building is completed in mid-2006, the store will relocate into that section, and the existing building will be torn down to make way for construction of the rest of the store. The entire project should be completed sometime in the fall of 2006.”
The new Maryville Hy-Vee will be 51,000 square feet, more than 20,000 square feet bigger than the existing store.
5 years ago
- Maryville schools started the 2015-16 academic year with many projects and goals in progress or just ahead — inside and outside the buildings.
Construction continues on the new performing arts center at Maryville High School and on the addition at the Eugene Field Elementary School. At Wednesday’s board meeting, R-II Superintendent Becky Albrecht reported that despite some delay because of all the rain this past summer, the building schedule remains within its projected dates.
“I think in the next four to six weeks, there will be a big difference,” she said.
Albrecht said that in that time frame, she expects to see the roof completed on the expanded cafeteria and commons area at Eugene Field Elementary School. In addition, three sections of the Maryville High School performing arts center floor should be poured, she said. - The Nodaway County Commission has named Deputy County Clerk Karen Leader to the position of acting county clerk following the sudden resignation of Beth Walker on Sept. 9.
Leader was named to fill the vacant elective position on an interim basis under Section 49.101 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, which states that the commission shall appoint a county official to discharge the duties of the office until Gov. Jay Nixon appoints a successor.
Leader was assigned all of the protections and bonding requirements pertaining to the office, and the order was witnessed by Prosecuting Attorney Robert Rice.
Leader, 52, is a Maryville native and a 1981 graduate of Maryville High School. She joined the county staff 12 years ago as on office worker assigned to both the clerk’s and assessor’s offices.
