Forum Flashbacks

5 years ago Citizens casting ballots in Tuesday’s general election responded positively to an intensive “voter information campaign” conducted over the past several weeks by the City of Maryville and Northwest Missouri State University with regard to a proposed 5 percent “bed tax” that will add about $4 a day to local hotel bills. The…

5 years ago City officials moved rapidly Wednesday afternoon to evacuate a decades-old storefront building on the west side of downtown Maryville with a dangerously bowed wall. Municipal Code Enforcement Officer Jim Wiederholt said the building, located at 124 W. Third on the south side of the street at the corner of North Buchanan, was…

5 years ago As expected this week, the Maryville City Council terminated its contract with Wertzberger Architects of Marshalltown, Iowa, the firm it hired last year to design a proposed $4 million conference center at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park. … “They (Wertzberger) submitted a very strong proposal,” City Manager Greg McDanel told the council Monday,…

5 years ago Nodaway-Holt High School will soon be getting a new digital sign. At the regular meeting of the Nodaway-Holt R-IV Board of Education Tuesday night, the board was presented with three options to replace the old sign, which was destroyed in a tornado in the summer of 2015. All three designs were offered…

5 years ago The Platte Valley Eagles’ softball team avenged Jefferson’s loss in last year’s District 16 championship game, defeating Stanberry 6-3 on Saturday afternoon in King City. Both pitchers stymied their opponents in the first half of a game that was scoreless through four innings. Scoring opened in the top of the fifth inning…

5 years ago Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was in Maryville Tuesday to tout a couple of state-backed local initiatives he praised as measures that will create new opportunities for early childhood education on the one hand and workforce training and readiness on the other. During ceremonies at SSM Health st. Francis Hospital, Nixon announced $1.5…

5 years ago In something of a repeat of the effort to educate voters earlier this year about a couple of sales tax measures earmarked for development and operations at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park — including construction of a $3.4 million conference center — the City of Maryville is once again reaching out to citizens…

5 years ago The higher education philosophy is changing at Northwest Missouri State University. On Thursday, Northwest hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new professional schools, commemorating a change to profession-based learning at the University. Profession-based learning, according to Provost Dr. Timothy Mottet, creates an environment where students are ready to enter the workplace the…

5 years ago Father Gregory Polan, 66, most recently abbot of Conception Abbey, a Benedictine institution located in Conception in eastern Nodaway County and home to Conception Seminary College, has been elected abbot primate of the Order of St. Benedict. Gregory was chosen to lead the 1,500-year-old religious order over the weekend during the Congress…

5 years ago Aside from raising Nodaway County’s collective blood pressure for a few anxious seconds Saturday morning, an earthquake that rattled across the nation’s heartland from southwest Texas to Illinois did little, if any, damage locally. In fact, after the initial shock, local residents almost immediately started cracking wise on Facebook and other social…