Profiles
Chorale leader receives Senior Service Award
Maryville resident Michael Phillips, director of the Nodaway Chorale community choir, is one of 18 honorees from northwest Missouri to receive the Lieutenant Governor’s Senior Service Award. Altogether, Lt. Gov. Mike Parson presented the award to 61 older Missourians in recognition of the exceptional service they have rendered to their home communities. The award was…
Read MoreNo-frills ‘coffee shop’ keeps the java flowing
It is a Main Street tradition across virtually all of small-town in America. Every weekday morning small groups of men and women cluster around tables in crowded diners and cafes and share coffee and conversation before heading off to their own shops and offices. Often the tables fill up again around 10 a.m. for the…
Read MoreWords are the world for new Bearcat alumna
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Excelling with the Speaking Bearcats speech and debate team at Northwest Missouri State University has inspired Maryville native Emily Meyers, who graduated Saturday, to embark on a career as a motivational speaker. Meyers, the daughter of Kerry and Marsha Meyers, helped the Northwest forensics squad acquire a series of national championship this…
Read MoreBird Hunters United field trials return to Mozingo
For anyone who grew up in the Midwest in the 1950s and ’60s it’s a classic American tableau enshrined on dozens of now-fading Kodachromed covers of Field & Stream magazine: a tan-clad hunter sighting down the barrel of an over-and-under shotgun as a lean, tense dog stands at point nearby and a whirring covey of…
Read MoreRoses’ lifetime love of art blossoms at DeLuce
Paintings by a local couple are currently on display at Northwest Missouri State University in an exhibit sponsored by the university’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts. The exhibit, located in the first-floor gallery of the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building, celebrates the creative accomplishments of emeritus Professor of Art George Rose and his wife,…
Read MoreNorthwest announces Dau Professorship
MARYVILLE, Mo. — For the first time in its history, Northwest Missouri State University will offer an endowed professorship after receiving a $500,000 cash gift in honor of an alumnus and supporter of the school’s instrumental music programs. The recent gift establishes the Dennis C. Dau Endowed Professorship in Instrumental Music. The endowment fund remains…
Read MoreCentury-old bloom fades at Plant House
When February’s chill gives way to the March wind this spring, and area gardeners begin to think about seeds and sprouts and the bounty of flowers and home-grown produce to come, one bit of gardening tradition will have disappeared in Nodaway County. After just more than 100 years of operation — 50 of them under…
Read MoreThorn named to lead Daily Forum news operation
Cody Thorn has joined the staff of the Maryville Daily Forum as managing editor. Thorn, 35, has been a member of the St. Joseph News-Press sports staff since 2010. He also spent five years at the Neosho Daily News and began his career as a sportswriter with the Joplin Globe in 2000. A native of…
Read MoreVolunteer seeks funds to aid African school
To most Americans the poverty afflicting millions of people in developing nations worldwide are just stories they see on television or read in a newspaper. But for Joe Ford, a retired livestock biologist known in Maryville for his work with the local Habitat for Humanity organization, the suffering of the world’s poor and dispossessed is…
Read MoreCongenital amputee inspires others to achieve
MARYVILLE, Mo. — The Student Activities Council at Northwest Missouri State University will present motivational speaker Kyle Maynard, a quadruple congenital amputee whose accomplishments include climbing Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, in Charles Johnson Theater. The auditorium is located on the ground floor of the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building across…
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