Capturing great moment makes sports shutterbug think
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Emmalea Kilpatrick got me to thinking. Or rather, taking a picture of her did.
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Resident on soybean board
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JEFFERSON CITY – During the Missouri Soybean Association annual meeting in Jefferson City, farmerleaders stepped up to serve Missouri’s soybean growers, association information states. Ray Countian Ronnie Russell represents District 1, along with Andrew Lance and C.
Grants for specialty crops
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JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Agriculture is accepting proposals through March 8 for anticipated funding from the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. “These grant funds will assist projects in both rural and urban settings, allowing our producers to find continued growth and success,” Missouri Agriculture Director Chris Chinn said.
HAVING OPERATED
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HAVING OPERATED for at least 100 years, a Missouri Century Farm is recognized in Ray County. Jim Proffitt from the Missouri Farm Bureau makes the Century Farm recognition presentation to Sandra Graham Ferguson outside the Eagleton Center in Richmond. BRIAN RICE
Century Farm applications sought
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COLUMBIA – Those with a family farm since Dec. 31, 1922, may apply for Missouri Century Farm recognition.
Ray, Clay counties, Excelsior Springs unite to fight future downtown floods
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RICHMOND – Three Excelsior Springs leaders asked and received Ray County Commission support for a Fishing River study to prevent floods that have struck the city several times since 1951, including June 25, 2021.
Railroad, residents at odds on closing crossings
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RICHMOND – Talk continues but solutions remain elusive regarding safe rail crossings at and near Henrietta. After the Missouri Department of Transportation had sold the old Highway 13 bridge in Henrietta to the Ray County Commission, which could not afford maintenance, the overpass closed due to safety issues.
Two people appointed to Restitution Committee for sheriff, prosecutor ‘
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RICHMOND – Ray County Presiding Commissioner Bob King agreed to appoint two people to the Law Enforcement Restitution Committee. King named Julie Nelson and Rachelle Berry to the committee.
