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RICHMOND – The Show-Me Green sales tax holiday – an optional break from collecting sales taxes on some items – will take place again this year, the City Council decided. The seven-day holiday takes place from April 19 through April 25.

RICHMOND – Like a tornado hunting trailer courts, the COVID-19 pandemic has struck hard at long-term care facilities across the nation, starting with the first U.S. death Feb. 29, 2020, at a Kirkland, Washington, nursing home.

RICHMOND – Love, infidelity, endurance, desperation, hope, aging, exuberance, relationships at all levels… The vivid spectrum of human experience is arrayed in gorgeous detail in Rose Marie Kinder’s collection of shorts, “A Common Person and Other Stories.” Kinder from everyday life forges sincere, powerful revelations about what goes into being human, sometimes in glory and sometimes in shame, and told always with a genius for emotional honesty that eschews the maudlin in favor of the real. I enjoyed every story, the easy way in which the reader is introduced to likable and detestable characters.

COLUMBIA – 2021 marks the 50th anniversary for Oats Transit, a rural public transportation system that serves 87 counties in Missouri and is headquartered in Columbia. What started in 1971 with three vehicles and five drivers serving eight counties has grown to encompass much of the state.

RICHMOND – By cussing at the elected 911 Dispatch Board, demanding the removal of Director Kim Davis and declaring an overall lack of faith in the board, former Clay County detective Scott Childers, now Ray County’s sheriff, made an impression during his first month in office.

LAMAR, Mo. – University of Missouri Extension’s Stay Strong, Stay Healthy program for older adults is offered online at 1 p.m.