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COLUMBIA – Cash Honeycutt, Richmond, placed second for his Hampshire gilt and third for his Poland China gilt in the Missouri Pork Association’s Youth Show Pig Circuit competition. Points for the circuit could be earned from six of eight shows held across Missouri between June and July.

RICHMOND – The Missouri Highway Patrol completed annual school bus inspections in Ray and Clay counties, requiring repairs before buses are driven. The state requires bus repairs within 10 days of the inspection.

AMES, Iowa – At the edge of a corn field on a clear but windy June day, microbiologist Tom Moorman lifts a metal lid and reveals a collection of bottles, tubes, meters and cables in a shallow pit. The system is designed to capture runoff from 24 plots.

RICHMOND – Richmond’s infrastructure includes about 42 miles of city streets that the city maintains, with this year’s summer work completed. Streets are maintained regularly to ensure a viable transportation system for residents, businesses and visitors, city information states.

HARDIN – Bridge work on Route J over Crooked River is underway, forcing the road to close for the next three months. The plan is to replace the bridge deck and improve the approaches, Missouri Department of Transportation spokesman Markl T.

LIBERTY – COVID-19 cases in Clay and Ray counties, and across the state and nation, continue to rise, though there are moderation signs nationally and in the Northland. Nationally, new cases rose by 2.8% from last week to this week and the trend line over the past few weeks is down, though nearly 3,718 additional deaths in the past six days remains a fact health experts continue to try to reduce.