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RICHMOND – Ongoing maintenance problems at the Ray County Jail continue going on. Problems include water coming up through the poorly constructed jail floor, water dripping down through the ceiling’s electric light fixtures, poor video monitoring, sheet-metal walls that can be torn into strips to use as knives, an unreliable heating and air conditioning system, poor ventilation and too little re quired access to natural light.

RICHMOND – Hundreds of people lined downtown’s streets for the Shirkey Golf Course Christmas Parade. The parade organizer and Shirkey general manager, Ken Lacy, said the golf course took over the parade last Christmas season, when those who normally organize the parade did not because of COVID-19 concerns.

RICHMOND – For about three weeks, Richmond High School worked on a general aid fund to help community families struggling during the holiday season with anything from the lights being turned off to other financial hardships, Student Council sponsor Michaela Lamb reported.

RICHMOND – The Rock Wall at Richmond Middle School has been a favorite activity of P.E. classes since 2005, based on school information.

JEFFERSON CITY – “At least” $4,348 collected in cash by former City Clerk Marla Berndt as sewer bill payments is unaccounted for in Homestead Village, a Ray County town of roughly 185 people near Excelsior Springs.