Editorials

We encourage everyone in Nodaway County to take some time before March 7 and fill out the workforce and child care needs survey that is part of the city of Maryville’s effort to address what is perhaps the largest threat to our community’s growth into the future. For years, industry leaders in our county have…

Greg McDanel’s imminent departure as city manager, announced last week, will bring to an end an extraordinary 13-year tenure leading Maryville. Communities are built by individuals who leave their marks in untold ways — great and small, obvious and less so, tangible and intangible. It’s not always easy to see how an individual affects a…

It’s a good day to live in Nodaway County. The overwhelming passage of a $50 million bond for a new water treatment plant is another vote of confidence in the future of our community. There’s still a long way to go between authorizing bonds for a new water treatment plant and sipping water that was…

This week we hope you’ll take some time to read through our annual Progress edition, highlighting just some of the major events, businesses and improvements we’ve seen change, grow and continue to form our community within the last year and some of those we can look forward in 2025. If there’s one thing we think…

There are certain bedrock expectations that are so integral to what we do every day that we don’t even contemplate them. We know that every time we flip a switch, the lights will come on; every morning the sun will rise in the East; and that safe, clean water will come out of the tap.…

As has become a new routine hereabouts, Old Man Winter dawdles until January, but when he does finally arrive, he enters with the subtlety of the Koolaid Man — bringing with him this year a snowstorm that dumped about 10 inches of snow across the county. Alongside frigid temperatures, it was fit for neither man…

It was with some surprise that we reported this week the observations of two respected local public officials who say they’ve never seen people so angry and belligerent. No, it’s not surprising that people are angry and belligerent — anyone who has ever worked in any service job, or really any public-facing job, understands our…

A new year is upon us again — did someone put this thing on fast-forward when we weren’t looking?? — and with it, better intentions for a clean slate. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve opened a fresh calendar, starting over at the beginning will always be accompanied by a sense of opportunity at…

W e here at the Maryville Forum most certainly believe in Santa Claus, and even those few on staff or on the Editorial Board who may be on the fence are certainly more than willing to hedge their bets that the jolly fat man in red and white exists. So as we publish letters to…

Even in a time of pervasive cynicism, the Christmas season remains a time when people are just a little bit nicer, a little bit more considerate, a little bit more generous, even — maybe especially — to strangers. Maybe it’s because many of us know we’re about to spend some extended time in close proximity…