Forum Flashbacks
Forum Flashbacks: March 17-23
5 years ago As they have for nearly three decades, hundreds of green-clad revelers lined a street in downtown Maryville on Thursday to drink, greet friends and neighbors, and cheer on participants in this year’s World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Bearcat head football coach Adam Dorrel and his staff, who led the 2015 squad…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: March 10-16
5 years ago The Maryville City Council this week appointed eight of nine members to serve on a municipal Tourism Committee being created under guidelines tied to a 5 percent transient guest tax on hotel bills approved by voters last November. Also known as a bed tax, the levy will add about $4 to the…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: March 3-9
5 years ago “We were lucky,” said Nodaway County Emergency Management Director Christy Forney on Tuesday — the morning after a Monday-evening storm produced one and possibly two tornadoes. Forney said a twister confirmed by North Nodaway Fire and Rescue personnel hit the ground around 6:30 p.m. approximately two miles northeast of Skidmore near Highway…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Feb. 24-March 2
5 years ago Local youth golfers will have a chance this summer to join one of the fastest growing sports organizations in the United States. Maryville’s Mozingo Lake Golf Course will join with St. Joseph Country Club and Moila Shrine Country Club to create the PGA Youth League of Northwest Missouri. The organization is part…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Feb. 17-23
5 years ago In a matter of minutes Saturday night a capacity crowd at the Maryville Community Center raised more than $5,000 for a new preschool and childcare center at SSM Health St. Francis Hospital. That was the start of a successful evening of fundraising. The gala, dubbed An Evening Under the Big Top, included…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Feb. 10-16
5 years ago The men and women whose lives anchor a leading segment of Nodaway County’s single indispensible industry — agriculture — gathered at the Tri-Meadows meeting hall Saturday to celebrate another year of growth, progress, and profitability. Nearly 300 members of the Nodaway County Cattlemen’s Association attended the organization’s fourth annual Cattlemen’s Roundup, a…
Read MoreBernard, Bearcats fly past Griffons
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Trevor Hudgins has had lots of chances to speak to the media recently. Seemingly every game, Hudgins is breaking another program record. Saturday’s 84-61 victory over Missouri Western was another 20-plus point game, but the assembled media was going to give Hudgins a break from talking after the rivalry game. Hudgins…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Feb. 3-9
5 years ago Many Maryville officials turned out Friday for opening ceremonies welcoming the city’s newest corporate citizen, Maryville Carbon Solutions. The first manufacturing facility opened by Boulder, Colorado-based startup Bolder Industries, Maryville Carbon, is housed in the former Carbolytic Materials Company plant, which closed in 2012 after a troubled three-year run that included an…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Jan. 27-Feb. 2
5 years ago Maryville business and civic leaders gathered at Northwest Missouri Regional Airport on Friday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and luncheon celebrating the completion of a $3.4 million runway reconstruction project. State Rep. Allen Andrews, R-Grant City, delivered brief remarks to the group on a refurbished airport taxiway, calling the upgrade, which was funded…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Jan. 20-26
5 years ago When Northeast Nodaway principal Ken Grove was tapped to take over for superintendent Dr. Jeff Mehlenbacher, who retires this July, the search was on to find Grove’s replacement. The board didn’t have to look too far to find the right man for the job. Assistant principal Jason McDowell gained approval by the…
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