State poster contest for students ends Oct. 31
COLUMBIA – Missouri students in grades 3-12 have until Oct. 31 to submit poster designs to commemorate Missouri’s bicentennial in 2021.
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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
RICHMOND– The Richmond News received first-place awards in national, multi-state and state competitions for 2019, in addition to being named the No. 1 small newspaper in Missouri on Saturday for the second year in a row.
Celebrating National 4-H Week with three local youth
4-H is an organization that empowers youth in STEM education, agriculture, healthy living and civic engagement. Projects that move towards career opportunities and real life experiences encourages youth to take steps forward that they may have thought impossible.
RAY RECORDS 2 COVID DEATHS
RICHMOND – The Kansas City Region COVID-19 Data Hub on the Mid-American Regional Council’s website posted two Ray County deaths. Ray County Health Department Director Shelby Spor could not be reached for comment, including about the virus victims’ ages and communities.
Daughters adopt road in mother’s name
RICHMOND – The Kansas City metro area’s Adopt-A-Highway coordinator, Vanessa Clark, works under a warm fall sun along north Highway 13 in Richmond on Saturday. “People get in contact with me to adopt a highway, who want to do the litter cleanup,” she says.
NO HUGS FOR BEARS
JEFFERSON CITY – Bear could become targets for Missouri hunters on the south side of the Missouri River from the lower side of Platte County to the north tip of St. Louis County.
State revises coyote-, hog-hunting regs
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Conservation updated regulations regarding coyote hunting and feral hog control.
National 4-H Week from Oct. 4-10
RICHMOND – The National 4-H Council has created this year’s theme for National 4-H Week, Opportunity- 4All, to rally support for Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program and identify solutions to eliminate the opportunity gap that affects 55 million youngsters across America.
IRS adds time for drought-stricken farmers to replace livestock
WASHINGTON − Farmers and ranchers forced to sell livestock due to drought may have another year to replace the livestock and defer taxes on any gains from the forced sales, the Internal Revenue Service stated.
Heat can wreck roads
JEFFERSON CITY – Although not as dramatic as the name would imply, pavement “blowups” are the summer’s version of potholes.
