Profiles
Gary’s Barber Shop to celebrate 50 years with an open house
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Quick with his scissors and his wit, local barber Gary Greeley has spent the last 50 years shearing and shaving people from throughout northwest Missouri, southern Iowa and beyond. Born near Elmo, Greeley suffered from asthma and told The Forum he had to get off the farm. He went to barber school…
Read MoreYounger inducted into Iowa aviation hall of fame
GREENFIELD, Iowa — Connie Rex Younger, a man with Nodaway County ties, was announced as a 2022 inductee into the Iowa Aviation Museum Hall of Fame. Nicholas A. Turner, of Elliott, Iowa, was the other inductee in the 2022 class. An induction program for the two men in conjunction with a fly-in will be held…
Read MoreBlackford to attend Missouri Scholars Academy
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Connor Blackford, son of Nate and Andrea Blackford and a sophomore at Maryville High School, has been selected to attend Missouri Scholars Academy, a three-week-long academic enrichment program. Each year, after meeting certain criteria, one or two Maryville sophomores are selected by the school to attend the academy. “(Selected students) have to…
Read MoreLongtime D.A.R.E. officer Smail retires
MARYVILLE, Mo. — For more than 30 years there has been a constant strong presence among the youth in Maryville and Nodaway County schools. One only needs to utter the program D.A.R.E. and one image immediately comes to mind — that of Rick Smail. The longtime area law enforcement officer hung up his duty belt…
Read MoreMaryville resident honored at 2022 gala event
MARYVILLE, Mo. — During the St. Francis Hospital Foundation’s annual gala event, Maryville resident Donna Holt received the fourth annual Spirit of St. Francis Award on Feb. 19 at the Mozingo Event Center. The foundation’s board of directors selects recipients of the Spirit of St. Francis Award based on the five values of the hospital’s…
Read MoreAlma Nash: On the march
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Alma Nash was one of those people who never stopped working, and she didn’t let the fact that she was born a woman in 1883 limit what she could do. Nash is most well-known in the state of Missouri for her direction of the Missouri Ladies Military Band, which participated in the…
Read MoreMissouri Ladies Military Band
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Even though it is hard to imagine a time in our state’s history when women could not vote, it is a right that many women fought hard to get. The push for women’s suffrage really picked up in the 1910s in Missouri. Some women joined suffrage organizations, some traveled the state to…
Read MoreSarah Caldwell: Music’s Wonder Woman
MARYVILLE, Mo. — While world-renowned opera and small-town Missouri do not often go hand-in-hand, Sarah Caldwell stands out as a prominent anomaly. She was born in Maryville in 1924 and was involved in the town’s musical community at an early age. Caldwell was a young prodigy and began to perform concerts outside of the state…
Read MoreLocal 7-year-old’s work featured in magazine
CONCEPTION, Mo. — Carina Murray, a 7-year-old homeschooled student from Conception, received an honorable mention in the October 2021 Cricket League art competition. “I didn’t expect to win,” Murray said. “I thought that was pretty amazing,” adding that she was disappointed others could not win. Geared toward children ages 9 to 14, Cricket magazine features…
Read MoreNorthwest student promotes self-worth through songs, speeches
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Since she was a teenager, Northwest Missouri State University student Jessica Vogt has been performing and speaking under the name JessAngelique. Angelique started songwriting at age 12. From there, she grew in her talents and began to share them with others. “I did this thing that was called girls club when I…
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