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Ray County Museum staff are taking full advantage of the slow winter months, organizing items the museum houses and planning for springtime activities when the weather abates. Museum director Cathy Gottsch gave an update regarding the building and artifacts.

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series, with the first having published in the Jan. 5 edition.

About midway through the fourth quarter, some of those fans watching Orrick face Norborne Jan. 5 in varsity boys basketball might have been expecting a nail-biting finish.

Richmond varsity girls basketball coach Kaylee Vantrump hopes her Spartans play like they practice this week in the Lawson Invitational, just as they did Jan. 4 during their 51-45 loss to visiting Pleasant Hill.

The Humane Society of Ray County (HSRC) found ways to keep the floors dry, the animals warm and spirits high this past holiday season. Ray County Commissioners have yet to look at the county-owned building and agreed at the last meeting with HSRC members to go look and walk through the building to see its disrepair. HSRC President Atalie Blackwell, Jennifer Mills and Clare Flamank talked about the current state of the building – especially the roof. Blackwell explained the roof has places where the outside is visible, water comes in from the rain, and at any given time, she believes it will cave in.

Wood Heights man James Wayne Woodruff Sr., 68, will face Eighth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Joseph Donald McGaugh at his next criminal setting hearing on Jan. 19 at 9 a.m.

Justin Robinson, a 40-year-old Richmond man, has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Tuesday, March 19 with Ray County Judge Lori Baskins at the Ray Circuit Court Division. Robinson had two cases totaling 18 felonies.