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RICHMOND – The Richmond Rotary Club and the city united to plant 19 trees July 19 at the Pavilion Square. The Pavilion Square is a developing park in downtown Richmond on the formerly vacant lot at the corner of East North Main and North Thornton streets.

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri is set for redistricting – lines being redrawn for U.S. House and Missouri House and Senate seats.

RICHMOND – While much of Ray County slept, varsity coach Staci Maddux and her Spartans kept a Richmond softball tradition going Monday morning. To commemorate the start of fall sports practices, the Spartans staged their version of Midnight Madness at Southview Park.

RICHMOND – Monday’s girls golf practice meant more than time spent chipping and putting to Richmond junior Kennedy Wrisinger. She reunited with fellow Spartans and Richmond coach Murray Dennis.

RICHMOND – Roosters crow loudly, seemingly already in competition, unaware crowing is not a criterion as Jasmine Gates, this year’s Ray County Fair poultry judge, arrives. Hailing from Cairo, Missouri, Gates removes from their pens various chickens, bantams and full-sized roosters while running her fingers over their feathers and testing their weight, and examining their body structure – combs, beaks, breasts, wings, legs and feet.

ORRICK – To celebrate Independence Day and to express gratitude to veterans, representatives from the Orrick Christian Church dropped by the Veterans Community Project Outreach Center in Kansas City to deliver more than 150 items and more than $1,600 in donations.

RICHMOND – Senior Center Director Pat Mills said she does not know when the center will be ready physically to reopen and, when ready, when people can enter. Reopening depends on the completion of renovations, and entry depends on the COVID-19 Delta variant.

RICHMOND – Sheriff Scott Childers and Ray County commissioners agree at least some inmates must be housed elsewhere while the county grapples with structural deficiencies and potential health issues at the Ray County Jail.