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AUDITOR ALLEGES ‘FRAUD’

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

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.

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WWII flier turns 100 years old

4 years ago By Samantha Zelaya

LAWSON – World War II veteran Lindell Jarman, Lawson, celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by family on Thanksgiving. Having spent three years in college, Jarman, then 21, volunteered for service July 30, 1942, in Kansas City, Kansas, based on National Archives information.

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AUDITOR ALLEGES ‘FRAUD’

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia Editor-in-chief

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.

Berndt also allegedly failed to pay her own sewer bill and falsified ledgers to conceal non-payments, based on an investigation completed Wednesday by State Auditor Nicole Galloway’s office.

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Richmond boys start late on hoops season

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

RICHMOND – Coach Kevin Jermain has found himself shorthanded during Richmond’s leadup to the varsity boys basketball season. Upperclassmen such as seniors Keyshaun Elliott and Layne Cavanah, and junior Jack Gogue – who helped the Spartans reach the Class 4 state quarterfinals last season – were preoccupied with football during November.

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Snyder blessed with high hoops turnout, football run

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

Snyder is on Richmond’s varsity football coaching staff. He also is in his fourth season as the head varsity girls basketball coach. Thus, he found himself shuttling between the football practice field, where he helped the Spartans reach the Class 2 state semifinals, and the high school gym as he helped the Richmond girls prep for the season, which began Nov. 23 with a 44-12 road win over Orrick.

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Hogan in familiar territory as Richmond’s new grappling coach

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

RICHMOND – The area wresting scene and coaching Richmond wrestlers are nothing new to first-year Spartans varsity coach Cody Hogan. Hogan is a 2007 Richmond High graduate.

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Girls coach moves from bleachers to bench

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

HARDIN – First-year varsity girls basketball coach Annie Finley has known her Bulldogs for years. One Bulldog has known Finley for a lifetime: senior post player and daughter Morgan Finley.

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Summer reps benefit bulldogs

4 years ago By Shawn Roney

HARDIN – As he prepared Hardin-Central to start the 2021-2022 varsity boys basketball season, coach Brent Behler had an advantage over last season. COVID wiped out the Bulldogs’ hopes of getting summer workouts in 2020, Behler recalled after practice Nov.

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