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Clever Clovers 4-H Club joins 4-H Feeding Missouri food drive

5 years ago By News Staff

RICHMOND – The Clever Clovers 4-H Club plans to participate in the statewide 4-H Feeding Missouri food drive. Youth ages 5 to 18 will collect, sort and deliver donations to the Ray County Senior Center Food Bank for distribution communitywide.

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Despite intervention of virus, Missouri income rises for farm families

5 years ago By News Staff

COLUMBIA – Large government payments helped 2020 Missouri net farm income match or exceed the 2014 record of $3.4 billion, Abigail Meffert said. Meffert is a senior research associate with the University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, or FAPRI.

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Drive-through clinics for Ray County scheduled to take place in April, May

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

RICHMOND – A location is being sought to hold a vaccination clinic in Ray County during May, but those who do not want to wait can go to a clinic next week in Lafayette County. The Health Care Collaborative of Rural Missouri – in collaboration with the Ray County and Lafayette County health departments – will host a drive-through vaccination clinic in Lexington on April 17.

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May 16 graduation date set

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

RICHMOND – Graduation is set to take place May 16 on the Richmond High School football field – not news, typically, as graduation is a normal event. But...

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Pool roof replacement work in progress

5 years ago By J. ‘miles’ Ventimiglia

RICHMOND – Pool roof repairs sank into the deep end, with the whole roof needing replacement. “Those joists are just a mess,” Park Superintendent Terry Dickey said Monday at the site.

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MoDOT announces Route J completion

5 years ago By News Staff

HARDIN – The Missouri Department of Transportation has opened the re-decked Route J Bridge over Crooked River in southern Ray County. Crews began rehabbing the bridge in November 2020.

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FIRED SUPERINTENDENT FIRES BACK

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

RICHMOND – Former Richmond School District Superintendent Mike Aytes’ employment discrimination suit includes allegations of cheating and sexual harassment involving head varsity football and baseball coach Nick Persel

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AREA ELECTION RESULTS

5 years ago By News Staff

RICHMOND – These results are for contested races in Ray County and Excelsior Springs... HEALTH DEPT.

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Easter egg hunt at park

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

RICHMOND – Hundreds of community residents surrounded the hunting grounds April 2 at Maurice Roberts Park during the first of two Richmond Parks and Recreation Department Community Easter Egg hunts.

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Between the eras of quills and keyboards, most written communication across the globe relies on...

5 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

Focusing on a couple of glass display cabinets, Steven Ritter, Excelsior Springs, goes over plans with staff about the coming auction’s agenda, starting with a lifetime’s collection of coins, followed by writing pens and jewelry, and then back-and-forth calls between inkwells and watches.

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