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5 years ago The Biggest Little Horse Show in the World galloped through its 80th year over the weekend in Pickering. Hosted, as it has been for decades, by the Pickering Lions Club, the Pickering Horse Show embraced nearly 50 classes of saddle competition and western-style racing contests in addition to Friday’s draft horse event…

5 years ago For nearly 100 years, J.C. Penney Co. has had a retail store located in Maryville, first downtown and then, beginning in 1981, at the Maryville Mall Shopping Center on South Main. But in March the company announced it would close 138 stores, and the Maryville location was the only one in Missouri…

5 years ago Crappie anglers at Mozingo Lake have noticed a distinct fall-off over the past couple of years in the number of fish they’re reeling in, and the Missouri Department of Conservation is working to do something about it. Earlier this summer, MDC, which manages the Mozingo fishery – known as perhaps the hottest…

5 years ago Two of the more popular — and unique — midway attractions at the Nodaway County Fair this year were a pair of animal exhibits named Woody’s Barn Yard and Woody’s Menagerie. The Barn Yard consisted of a miniature sawdust-covered track that — following the traditional “Call to the Post” fanfare — was…

5 years ago The Nodaway-Holt Education Foundation has received a sizeable boost from an alumnus who passed away last year. Near the end of June, Dennis and Karen Dakan presented the Foundation with a check worth $917,000 from Dennis’ uncle, Edward Dakan. Edward Dakan passed away at 93 years of age in March of 2016,…

5 years ago Nodaway County more or less dodged the bullet during a major summer storm overnight Wednesday that produced tornadoes, heavy rain, hail, flash flooding, some crop damage and severe lightning across the region. There was one very close call, however, as multiple first responder agencies worked well past midnight to rescue a motorist…

5 years ago Local civic and business leaders gathered at SSM Health St. Francis Hospital on Friday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony officially dedicating a new cancer clinic and chemotherapy infusion center. The 3,500-square-foot facility, created from renovated space formerly comprising seven patient rooms, embraces a private infusion room, a blood-drawing room, six curtained infusion bays,…

5 years ago The Administration Building, Bearcat Stadium, Lamkin Activity Center and Colden Pond are just a few of the landmarks at Northwest Missouri State University. But the list of notable campus locations could grow by one as soon as next summer now that ground has been ceremonially broken for the Hughes Family Center —…

5 years ago In 2005, Maryville got a new soccer team. After watching the Maryville High School girl’s soccer team put up a disappointing season, Cleo Samudzi determined that there needed to be competitive soccer available to kids before they got to high school in order to foster better play. So, in the midst of…

5 years ago “It’s been kind of a special day,” Maryville Public Safety Director Keith Wood said late Thursday morning, his desk sporting a small red, white and blue bouquet and a cluster of blue, silver and parti-colored balloons. The occasion, which Wood had forgotten about before the gifts and good-wishes started arriving, was the…