Russell Franklin "Rusty" O'Dell Jr.
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Russell Franklin “Rusty” O’Dell Jr, age 62, of Higginsville, MO, was taken home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, December 21, 2021.
December 2021
Richmond board names 2022-23 superintendent
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RICHMOND – Dr. Greg Darling resigned, effective June 30, as Richmond School District superintendent of schools and Dr. Bryan Copple will take the job.
Copple is the Gallatin School District superintendent.
Ruth Ann Latham
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Ruth Ann Latham 70, of Richmond, MO, passed away suddenly on December 16, 2021, at Carroll County Memorial Hospital in Carrollton, MO.
Ruth Ann was born on April 9, 1951, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri to Byron F. and Juanita (Lynn) Taber. She was the oldest of three children, followed by Annette (Taber) Baker and Byron Taber Jr.. She married Corwin O. Latham with whom she had two daughters, Darcie (Latham) Taylor and Tara (Latham) Wolf.
Glenda Sue Estes Prewitt
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Glenda Sue Estes Prewitt went to be with the Lord and join her beloved husband, Harold Dean Prewitt on December 17, 2021.
Daniel Joseph "Dan" Dilley
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Daniel Joseph “Dan” Dilley
1969-2021
Pattonsburg, MO: Dan Dilley, 52, Pattonsburg, MO passed away Tuesday, December 14, 2021 with his wife and children by his side.
Bureau reports fewer children live in poverty
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RICHMOND – Poverty is decreasing in area school districts, based on Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Additional money goes into county jail repairs
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RICHMOND – Ongoing maintenance problems at the Ray County Jail continue going on. Problems include water coming up through the poorly constructed jail floor, water dripping down through the ceiling’s electric light fixtures, poor video monitoring, sheet-metal walls that can be torn into strips to use as knives, an unreliable heating and air conditioning system, poor ventilation and too little re quired access to natural light.
FENTANYL DRUG SUMMIT FOCUS
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PLEASANT VALLEY – Sheriff Will Akin opened the Community Drug Education Summit with the reason for calling together law enforcers, mental health specialists and the public: “We are investigating an unprecedented number of cases involving deaths due to drug overdoses. We’re talking about teens and young adults here.” A DRUG HUB Poorly made, deadly drugs – primarily fentanyl, a synthetic opioid – flow into Ray, Clay and Jackson counties.
‘Witch! Witch!’ 2022 elections looming
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Complex issues require hard work to solve, making them too difficult to use to win political campaigns, so politicians fall back on the tried-and-true practice of faking problems, blowing them out of proportion and then offering solutions to those phantom problems.
Doctors work remotely to aid nursing homes
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JEFFERSON CITY – The COVID-19 pandemic caused nursing homes to change policies overnight, with telehealth adopted widely in an effort to reduce stress on the health care system. Telehealth did so by keeping residents safe and avoiding unnecessary transfers to already-overwhelmed hospitals, based of University of Missouri information.
