Forum Flashbacks
Forum Flashbacks: April 8-14
25 years ago The City of Maryville will be turning over one of its duties to the private sector. In an era of downsizing government, this is more commonly known as privatization.The Maryville City Council unanimously approved a contract between the City of Maryville and the New Nodaway Humane Society of Maryville for acting as…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: April 1-7
25 years ago For the sixth time in three years, patrons of the Maryville R-II School District voted down a bond issue to fund the building of a new middle school and expand the high school.Receiving just over a simple majority, 1,674 to 1,673, the bond issue needed a four-sevenths majority to pass.The R-II Board…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks, March 25 – March 31
25 years ago One of the great educators of fire safety in Maryville, passed away Friday afternoon. Sparky the fire dog, a Dalmatian, had been with the Maryville Department of Public Safety since 1988, prior to an accident with one of the department’s trucks.The truck was leaving on a call to extinguish a car on…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: March 18 – March 24
25 years ago What better way is there to understand the body than to jump inside? The concept may sound impossible, but area elementary students are doing just that during the Show-Me Body Walk held at St. Gregory’s which began March 19.During the Body Walk, which will continue through March 29, students entered the mouth…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: March 11 – March 17
25 years ago “I’m not against the schools, but this is the problem …”This is how a majority of voters looked at the first and last school bond issue, while three other bond issues received a majority of yes votes, yet not enough to demand a tax levy increase to build new school facilities.In less…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: March 4 – March 10
25 years ago Twenty-one people addressed the Mozingo Recreation Advisory Board on recommendations which would be made to the Maryville City Council concerning hunting at Mozingo Lake.A majority of those who addressed the board were opposed to hunting at Mozingo, with five area citizens in support of restricted sports hunting and two Missouri Department of…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Feb. 25 – March 3
25 years ago Fourteen area citizens addressed the Maryville City Council last night regarding concerns about hunting being allowed at Mozingo Lake.David Easterla, wildlife specialist and co-author of “Birds of Missouri,” was the first to address the Council on the issue.“I am not against hunting,” Easterly said. “Hunting has its place, but not at Mozingo…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Feb. 18-24
25 years ago A lone picketer paced the east entrance to the Maryville Treatment Center this morning, presumably protesting the use of non-labor workers by companies contracted to do work at the treatment center.The man represented the Carpenters’ District Council Kansas City and Vicinity and declined to comment to the press directing questions to Lewis…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Feb. 11-17
25 years ago Students, faculty and staff at Northwest Missouri State University will be signing a special valentine.At noon, today, Northwest signed a giant valentine for Mercedes Ramirez, the Northwest junior international business major who survived the Colombian airliner crash just before Christmas. Ramirez who was released last week from a Kansas City hospital is…
Read MoreForum Flashbacks: Feb. 4-10
25 years ago A truly remarkable woman for any age, the 80-year-young Alice Gabrielson has won Missouri’s 6th annual “Older Worker of the Year” for Northwest Missouri by the Division of Aging.Gabrielson is a cafeteria employee at Maryville High School. She has worked for the district for 14 years, having also worked in the cafeteria…
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