3 seek Ray County E. District commission seat
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RICHMOND – Three men seek the Ray County Eastern District Commission seat. They are independent Karl T.
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H-C softballers fall in district semis
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NORBORNE – Hardin-Central’s softball season is over. The Bulldogs concluded their season with an 8-0 loss to the Braymer/ Breckenridge co-op Oct.
Ray clerk acts to keep elections safe
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RICHMOND – Ray County Clerk Glenda Powell, the county’s chief election official, said she has taken steps to assure the Nov. 3 election is safe from the potential of violence and COVID-19.
Western District Commission seat up for grabs
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RICHMOND – If voters agree, they could select the first woman in history to serve as a county commissioner. Or not.
Parson seeks to undo Clean Missouri vote; Galloway wants to honor public’s statewide decision
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COLUMBIA – Missouri’s most prominent party leaders are on opposite sides of Amendment 3, the call to change the public’s 2018 vote on Clean Missouri. Clean Missouri included a provision that has become controversial – how to decide where people vote to give fairer representation to each party.
COVID-closure causes blowup at county meeting
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RICHMOND – Democrats questioned, and Republicans criticized, the Ray County Commission regarding canceled plans for political gatherings at the Eagleton Center.
Eastern Commissioner Allen Dale, a Democrat, weeks earlier had told fellow Democrats they could not use the center for a political meeting.
“I was told about a month or so ago that we couldn’t use the Eagleton Center, couldn’t rent it out, because of the COVID thing, which I completely agree with,” Democrat Cindy Hewitt said prior to the Oct. 21 commission meeting.
SPARTANS GO VIRAL ON EAGLES
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RICHMOND – COVID-19 knocked more than two dozen players from the Richmond High School football roster before the Spartans’ Oct. 2 game, varsity coach Nick Persell said.
Mural brightens west side entrance into downtown
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RICHMOND – A mural depicting a Ray County farm from nearly 200 years ago is found on the building wall across from the Farris Theatre at West Main and South Camden streets. Ray County Community Arts Association President Melinda White said the association commissioned the work.
