Profiles
McCrary retires after 48 years at St. Francis
MARYVILLE, Mo. — SSM Health St. Francis Hospital recently honored nurse Billye McCrary, RN, BSN, on the occasion of her retirement. McCrary served as a member of the hospital’s medical staff for nearly 50 years, according to a hospital release. Friends and colleagues saluted her service during a reception on Dec. 29. Prior to going…
Read MoreHall retires after long banking career
Members of the Maryville area business and financial community gathered at Nodaway Valley Bank on the downtown square Wednesday to offer congratulations to veteran local banker Bob Hall, who is retiring after more than 40 years in the industry. For decades, Hall’s professional life has served to illustrate the essence of community banking, a part…
Read MoreVolunteer honored for local blood drive efforts
Local resident Evie Church has been honored by Community Blood Center for spearheading blood drive efforts that resulted in Maryville being named the top community in the region for units collected during 2015. CBC Account Manager Betty Tinker recently presented Church with the Kansas City-based blood bank’s Top Organization award for her work on behalf…
Read MoreRedden bids tech school ‘family’ farewell
The students, faculty, and staff at Northwest Technical School, the vocational education arm of the Maryville R-II School District and a dozen other northwest Missouri school systems, have lost their Mom. Also their sister, aunt, best friend, and go-to co-worker at the front desk. After three decades at NTS — a period that has seen…
Read MoreFour who served savor long friendship
They were soldiers once: strong, straight young men thoroughly trained to serve, fight for, and if necessary kill and die for their country. And they are friends still, all these years later, four Maryville High School grads who on October 18, 1966, each entered the U.S. Army on the same day. Three served in Vietnam,…
Read MoreAuthor to spook out about mysterious Maryville
Jason Offutt, the Northwest Missouri State University journalism instructor otherwise known as Maryville’s master of the spooky, ghostly, otherworldly, paranormal, and downright weird, will offer up a string of strange and scary tales next week during an after-dark presentation at the Nodaway County Historical Society Museum. Offutt’s evening of spectral speculations is to begin at…
Read MoreNew generation reshapes Woodruff Arnold
Recent coffee-shop talk around Maryville has it that one of this town’s most venerable businesses — Woodruff Arnold Construction & Plumbing — is closing. Well, as it turns out that’s not exactly true. Rather than closing its doors at 1315 S. Main St., the family owned enterprise is merely transforming itself to meet the needs…
Read MoreFirst produce harvest nears for Lettuce Dream
Lettuce Dream, a non-profit greenhouse operation in Maryville that plans on offering vocational training opportunities to people with cognitive and developmental disabilities, is a dream no longer. The facility’s first crop is nearing maturity and, according to Rego Jones, a Lettuce Dream board member and senior horticulture instructor at Northwest Missouri State University, should be…
Read MoreClass act: Run honors late teacher’s legacy
If our days are valued by the fullness left behind in the hearts of those we knew, then the impact of April Lawyer’s life remains a boundless treasure. The former Maryville High School special education teacher died suddenly at age 52 a year and a day before the 5K run/walk held Saturday in her memory.…
Read MoreFirefighters hone bus wreck response skills
Firefighters from a half-dozen area departments, including Maryville Public Safety, spent about eight hours Saturday participating in a special course designed to prepare them for the kind of call every first responder dreads — a catastrophic school bus accident. But while the thought of a bus full of children trapped and possibly injured inside 20,000…
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