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Body RICHMOND – Changes looming for the Ray County Senior Center include a possible summer versus fall reopening. Center Director Pat Mills talked about reopening in about five weeks.

Body EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tristn Jevon Center for Recovery, 704 Wollard Blvd., Richmond, is expected to help people like Tristn Jevon deal with mental health and addiction, his stepfather, Robert Cox, Excelsior Springs, said.

Body RICHMOND – The most famous and infamous characters in the multiuniverse gathered for the Richmond Mushroom Festival under 13-year-old Aidan Leroy’s Brick By Brick awning. Grogu in his high-tech stroller.

Body COLUMBIA – Missouri 4-H continues to partner with Feeding Missouri and the Missouri Farmers Care Drive to Feed Kids.

Body RICHMOND – A new 911 building? A new justice center? Each side agreed the other needs a new facility. They disagreed on whether the Ray County Commission has any control over the 911 Board’s sales tax income.

Body RICHMOND– The state is auditing Ray County offices. “We start the audit on Monday,” state Audit Manager Julie Moulden told the County Commission last week.

Body RICHMOND – Reacting to a lawsuit filed by fired former Superintendent Mike Aytes, the Richmond Board of Education denied the suit’s most explosive allegation – that head football coach Nick Persell acted in a sexually harassing manner toward an athletic trainer, Savanna Nobile.

Body RICHMOND – Although debuting on the square during the Richmond Mushroom Festival, Boothe 109 is the name of a store, not a festival booth. With people walking out holding ice cream cones, Boothe 109 must be an ice cream shop.

Body RICHMOND – The Eagleton Center will reopen for community events, the Ray County Commission decided April 30. The center closed more than a year ago because of the pandemic.

Body RICHMOND – The Richmond Fire District has purchased a John Deere Gator and firefighting skid. The 2021 Gator is equipped with water, a pump, a hose and firefighting foam to use on grass and brush fires.