Profiles
Apple honored with Mo. Realtors ethics award
Local real estate agent Larry Apple, a noted member of Maryville’s business community for more than 40 years and a past president of Missouri Realtors — the state’s largest trade organization — recently received the Bruce Aydt Code of Ethics Leadership Award during a Missouri Realtors conference at the Lake of the Ozarks. The award,…
Read MoreFirefighter Scouts join in annual ‘water fight’
Things got wet and wild on the Maryville square Monday evening during the annual “water fight” and hot dog feed hosted by the Maryville Public Safety fire division. Several rural fire and rescue agencies participated in this year’s event, including Polk Township, Parnell, Barnard, Worth County, Union Township (Pickering), and West Nodaway (Burlington Junction). The…
Read MoreHopkins festivalgoers ride the ‘barn quilt trail’
A mule-drawn wagon, homemade music, and arts and crafts from across northwest Missouri added to the distinctly country feel of a barn quilt trail festival Sunday afternoon at the Hopkins city park. Members of the North Nodaway High School sophomore class sold ice cream and iced tea to the meandering crowd on a perfect late…
Read MoreDrone pilot flying high with aerial photo business
When it comes to getting his new business off the ground, Jerod Downing is aiming for the clouds. While he’s not giving up his day job at Maryville Rent to Own quite yet, Downing, who lives with his wife and three children near Burlington Junction, is literally flying high when it comes to his belief…
Read MoreLearning comes natural during conservation days
Rainy weather may have forced a change in location this week for a pair of fourth-grade conservation field days hosted by the Nodaway County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Missouri Department of Conservation, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of children eager to learn about the natural world. Hosted by local Natural Resources…
Read MoreSummer ranger recalls glory of national parks
If the Nodaway County Historical Society Museum’s most recent acquisition could talk, it would tell the story of a local man’s lifetime love affair with the glories of the natural world and what remains of America’s Western wilderness. Now 78, retired Northwest Missouri State University biology professor David Easterla’s academic career stretched across more than…
Read MoreLessons of 9/11 linger for city’s top firefighter
Time, it seems, eases even the deepest and most heartfelt loss. And so this Sunday in Maryville is likely to be much like any other and nicer than most. The sun is supposed to shine, and temperatures are forecast in the mid-70s — the kind of weather that is just about as perfect as weather…
Read MoreBareback rider follows pro rodeo dream
At one time or another, probably every American youngster fantasizes about being a cowboy. Russell Redden, a 21year-old college student who grew up in Maryville and still lives here during the summer, is living that dream. Broad shouldered and bearded, tanned and tough, Redden not only looks the part, the homegrown rodeo bareback bronc rider…
Read MoreArea bow fisherman lands record catch
CONCEPTION JUNCTION, Mo. — Jonathon Randall, Conception Junction, recently became a state-record-breaking fisherman for the second time, according to a release issued by the Missouri Department of Conservation. Randall was fishing with a bow and arrow this spring at Smithville Lake in Clay County north of Kansas City when he shot a river carpsucker weighing…
Read MoreA Day in the Life: Music teacher continues family legacy
Although Vanessa Parsons has been teaching music for a considerable amount of time, almost 20 years, her love of music goes back even farther. Growing up in Red Oak, Iowa, Parsons watched her parents sing, play, and teach music. Her father was the church organist and her music teacher in middle and high school, and…
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