Editorials

Last week, Maryville’s Host Lions Club, Optimist Club, Kiwanis Club, Pride Lions Club, Rotary Club and Elks Lodge announced they would come together to raise money for a common cause on the National Day of Service and Remembrance. The effort, true to its goal of honoring and remembering the lives lost during the Sept. 11…

Each year the hustle and bustle of back to school brings on the busy schedules, more traffic, more work and seemingly less time. However, it also brings us a time of community. As fall school sports and activities have begun in our communities throughout Nodaway County nothing reminds us more of how together we really…

Over the past decade, every couple of years we generally agree that an indoor pool would be nice, look at each other, and go our separate ways. Now, though, is a good time to think seriously about the possibility. The Maryville Aquatic Center, which closed out its 29th summer last week, is nearing a tipping…

As classes begin at Northwest Missouri State University this week, our community feels whole again with the buzz of students back in Maryville. We welcome new and returning students alike back to their home away from home. Each summer, we get to imagine what our town would be like without college students becoming a part…

The award of nearly $6 million in federal RAISE grant funding to complete phase 2 of the South Main Corridor Improvement Project is yet another coup for us here in Maryville and a tremendous testament to officials at all levels of government working together to allow our community to build for the future. Last year,…

We applaud the transparency and dedication of Nodaway County Clerk Melinda Patton, her staff and the poll workers who labored deep into the night on Tuesday and through Wednesday ensuring not only that each vote in Tuesday’s primary election was counted, but that each voter would also be confident that their vote counted. The distinction…

Traditionally, midterm primary elections are not high-turnout affairs. We hope this year’s will buck that trend, at least here in Nodaway County. Although nationally the talk of the midterms is focused on the U.S. Senate and House — and, certainly, there are important choices to make in those races for us here in northwest Missouri…

We applaud the county officials, members of the 4th Judicial Circuit’s mental health leadership team and Judge Robert Rice in their efforts to create the Northwest Missouri Cooperative Mental Health Board of Trustees. The four-county agreement signed last week in Maryville that officially created the board is historic not only in its acknowledgment of the…

It’s Nodaway County Fair Week, and we thank all the people who work so hard to help our community celebrate … well, being a community. And that’s what the Nodaway County Fair brings us every year. Our annual summer fair has long been a proud tradition of gathering together, eating and having fun. Nowadays, it’s…

Election season is upon us again — although, when isn’t it? On Aug. 2, Nodaway County voters will go to the polls to vote on candidates for U.S. Senate, state House and Senate, and local positions like county recorder and township board, along with others at each level. While primary elections don’t get the same…