2003 News 2002 News 2001 News December 30 Community Members Must Answer The Call For Jury Duty DNR Reports Price For Heating Fuels Down Slightly December 23 MACC Elects New Officers For 2005 SCR-I Maintains $1.6 Million Balance Despite Difficult Financial Times MoDOT Closes Rutledge Maintenance Facility Chamber Announces Winners In Holiday Decorating Contest Crash Leaves Lancaster Woman Trapped In Jeep Overnight December 16 Soper Hired As New Extension Office Program Director McBee Named Semi-Finalist For Miss Missouri Teen USA Title Saturday Show Will Be Final Holiday Matinee Rotary Club Moves Into To New Home On Square Patrol Reports Safer November on Scotland County Roads Firemen Called To Combine Fire West of Memphis December 9 Speedway To Host 1st Annual Awards Banquet Congress Appropriates $148,755 For SCMH Cemetery Is Main Topic Of Discussion At December City Council Meeting Community To Offer Hero’s Welcome For Local Marine Local Firemen Rush To Neighbor's Aid December 2 Matinee Movies For The Season Begin Saturday MPD To Serve As Special Santa’s Helpers Diver Helps Recover Truck At Lake Show-Me Injured Memphis Marine Back In United States Accident Leaves Local Postal Customers Wondering If Their Mail Was Delivered MoDOT Announces Routes in Scotland and Clark Counties To Be Resurfaced November 25 ‘Kids Who Care’ Raising Money For Wounded Marine Jessica Erwin Crowned New Miss Northeast Missouri First Bobcat Harvested in Scotland County Chamber To Host Christmas Opening in Memphis on Friday Federal Grant Helping SCR-I Schools Stress ‘Reading First’ November 18 SCR-I Schools Making the Grade Chimney Sparks Roof Fire At Norton Home Memphis Woman Injured In Crash On Route A Memphis Marine Injured In Fighting In Iraq Local Teen Shot In Deer Hunting Accident Christmas Bazaar Set For December 4th November 11 Memphis City Council Approves Cemetery Improvements In Advance Of Special Event MACC Meeting Focuses On Fall Promotions Tigers Heading Back To State Football Playoffs Car Destroyed By Fire On Bence Street Submissions Being Sought For Book About Bible Grove Miss Northeast Missouri Pageant Set For Nov. 20th November 4 NEMO Pheasants Forever Chapter To Host Eighth Annual Banquet Three Indiana Men Killed In Plane Crash Near Downing School Board Approves Sale Of Building Trades Home Local Voters Flock to Polls October 31 Eyewitness Recounts Final Seconds Of Tragic Flight October 30 UPDATE - Investigators Seeking Clues In Fatal Plane Crash In Northeast Missouri October 29 BREAKING NEWS! - Northeast Missouri Witnesses Second Fatal Plane Crash In Less Than Two Weeks October 28 BREAKING NEWS! - Northeast Missouri Witnesses Second Fatal Plane Crash In Less Than Two Weeks Berkowitz, Munzlinger Square Off In Debate For House Seat Chamber To Host Safe Stops for Trick or Treaters Students Back Republicans In Mock Election Blunt Predicts 63 Percent Turnout on November 2nd Bring John Home Project To Host Civil-War-Period Costume Review NTSB Investigates Plane Crash Near Kirksville October 21 Scotland County Woman Honored as Alumni of the Year RPC To Host Fall General Membership Meeting Area Chambers of Commerce Join Forces To Host Fall Tour Two Teenagers Injured In Crash On Route M High Winds Blamed For Cornfield Fire October 14 Fire Station To Host Emergency Planning Meeting Golf Course Offering $500 Holiday Raffle Movies Begin At Memphis Theatre October 22nd Memphis United Methodist Church To Observe 100th Anniversary City Council Makes Preparations For Housing Rehabilitation Project Traffic Crash Numbers Down Across Troop B October 7 Terry Rush’s New Book Dedicated to Memphis Padilla Named New Director of SCMH Ambulance Service School Seeking Bids For Sale Of New Building Trades House Sheriff’s Officers, Firemen Now Armed With Automated External Defibrillators Lcpl. Anthony Brush Deployed To Iraq September 30 Memphis Fire Department Receives $162,000 Grant For New Fire Truck Is Breast Cancer In Your Future? SCR-I To Host District #12 Softball Tourney Local Golfer Wins Free Trip To Florida With Hole In One Rockhold Testifies Before Congressional Hearing Scotland County Speedway To Host Pepsi/Mountain Dew Nationals Special September 23 Volunteers Working To Create Scotland County Cancer Fund For Local Victims SCR-I To Host Homecoming Week October 11th-15th October 6 Last Day To Register To Vote In Election Emily Kiddoo Named Missouri Teen Volunteer of the Year Dr. Keller To Close Medical Clinics in October Sheriff’s Department Investigating Series of Burglaries Across County September 16 Kahoka Man Seriously Hurt In Crash Near Gorin Arbela Men Sentenced To Two Years At Leavenworth Sign-Ups Going Slow For Popular CRP Program Scotland County Fire Department Continuing To Update Truck Fleet September 9 Council Says Pool Is All It Is Cracked Up To Be J’s Register Tapes for Education Program Helping Local Schools Jones Smashes Way To Win In 2004 Demo Derby DDCC Finds Insufficient Evidence To Investigate Sheriff Rural Water Planning Switch To Lake Rathbun by September 15th MoDOT Seeking Input From Motorists On Route Z Closing September 2 Briggs-Smith Memorial Airport Receives Funds Antique Fair A Big Success Despite Rain Demo Derby To Highlight Busy Labor Day Weekend Bo Yearns Honored For Heroism In Helping Save Downed Pilot School Board Leaves Tax Levy Unchanged at $3.36 August 26 Antique Fair Stands the Test of Time Cantril Mail Man Injured In Crash Near Arbela Gorin R-III District Receives $120,000 Reading First Grant Bank of Kirksville Seeking To Purchase MCM Savings Gorin Fall Festival Set For September 4-5 August 19 Crusade Raises $6,828 To Fight Cancer County Closes Trash Compactor National Wild Turkey Federation To Host Banquet In Memphis Scotland County Pharmacy Opens Doors for Business City, County Can Not Reach Agreement On Dispatching Cigarette Blamed For Porch Fire on Jefferson Street August 12 Pool Project Hits Another ‘Crack’ in the Road Marshall To Give Concert to Benefit Bible Grove School Proposed Price Hike Has City Mulling Options For Dispatching Memphis Man Injured In Plane Crash Memphis Receives $411,750 CDBG Grant For Housing Rehabilitation Bible Grove Preservation Day To Be Held August 21 August 5 Onyx Acquires WCA’s Trash Collection Services In Memphis Memphis Man Hurt In Crash In Downing No Cost Childhood Immunizations Available at NEMO Family Health Clinic November Ballots Set as 39% of Voters Make It To Polls For Primary Election Memphis Family Can Stay Cool After Winning $10,000 Construction Issues Top Busy July Agenda For School Board July 29 Police Make Arrests In Residential Burglary Grant Funds New Radio System For Sheriff’s Department Officials Gearing Up For August 3rd Primary Contested County Races Expected To Generate High Voter Turnout William H. Dixon, M.D. Joins Staff At SCMH Who Are These Guys (and Gals)? July 22 MDC Gives $6,000 To Local Fire Departments NMCAA To Host Back To School Fair July 30th Community Players Complete 2004 Summer Production Memphis UMC To Welcome New Minister This Sunday Fitness Center Launches Final Year Of NAP Tax Credit Campaign County Completes $200,000 Off-System Bridge Project July 15 Third Annual Heather Fogle Memorial Softball Tourney Set For July 16-18 It’s Good To Be the King (or Queen) of Rotary BBQ Two Milton Men Injured In Crash Lottery Sales Highest Ever, Up 11.5 Percent Special Fair Coverage To Be Published July 29 Second Quarter Food Prices Drop Nationwide July 8 Scotland County Rotary Club Celebrates 25th Anniversary Value-Added Farm Tour Makes Stops In Area Local Feed Producers Receive Grant City Council Receives Pool Progress Report At July Meeting Memphis Theatre To Host Musical Tribute To Sinatra July 1 Relay For Life Raises $30,000 For Battle Against Cancer Extension Council Donates $1,500 To Youth Center Clinic To Offer Men’s ‘Tune-Ups’ Superintendent Huff Retiring After 40 Years With SCR-I School District SCR-I Board Balances Budget For Seventh Straight Year Missouri State Teachers Association Endorses Berkowitz June 24 Patrol Reports Pair Of Wrecks On Route M Extension To Host Milk the Goat Contest Absentee Ballots Available At Clerk’s Office Seniors Must Sort Through Medicare Discount Prescription Drug Cards Musical My Way To Be Performed July 13th-17th Kids Finding ‘Summer Adventure’ At School June 17 MACC Asking Motorists To ‘Shell Out’ For Peanuts USMTS Returning To Memphis For Special Thursday Race Blood Supply Spiraling Toward Empty! USDA Awards $45,000 Grant For Local NRCS Farm Project Relay For Life Hitting The Streets June 18-19 EDA Grants ECAP $962,435 For Ethanol Project June 10 Former Memphis Resident Killed In Crash In Moberly Voters Say No To $5 Million Sewer Proposal Police Arrest Teenagers On Stealing Charges Council Considering Options For Replacing Light Poles On Square SCR-I Board Of Education Fills Teaching Vacancies Rotary Club To Host Fishing Derby Saturday June 3 Voters To Decide Fate Of $5 Million Sewer Project Teen Work Camp Coming To Memphis County Clerk’s Office To Be Open Saturday City Anticipating August Opening Date For New Swimming Pool Jessie Cotton Headed To Miss Missouri Pageant May 27 V.F.W. To Host 58th Annual Memorial Day Service Area Suffers First Severe Storm Of ‘04 Lisa Shultz To Speak At Cancer Support Meeting Scotland County Will Issue ‘Conceal and Carry’ Permits Dairy Farmers Milking More Dollars Out Of Consumers May 20 Emergency Service Personnel Are There When We Need Them Reception For Retiring Teachers On Thursday Hospital Execs Ask Congress For Funding Sheriff’s Department Says ‘Click It or Ticket’ Arts Festival Brings Several Hundred Exhibits To Memphis Downing City Board Reaches Agreement With Internet Service May 13 Ella Ewing Arts Festival Offering A ‘Big’ Day Of Fun SCMH’s Four Decades Of Service Honored During Hospital Week Cable Company Planning $250,000 Upgrade in Memphis Memphis Police Officers Make Pair Of DWI Arrests City Council Refuses To Grant Permission for July 3rd Party Local Hunters Help State Set New Record For Turkey Season May 6 Help Coming From Oklahoma For Ministerial Alliance’s Community Works Gorin Teen Facing Felony Gun Charges Additional Probate Records Now Available On Microfilm Mock Crash Provides Training For Emergency Workers Bar Fight Lands Iowa Man In Memphis Jail Tornadoes Cost Missouri Insurers $500 Million April 29 Solid Waste District Funding $150,000 In Projects During Fiscal Year 2004 Teachers Will Continue To Climb Career Ladder Berkowitz Pleased Education Money Has Been Released Release Of $197 Million Withholding Still Leaves Education Under Funded Youth Center Taking Steps Toward Future Skin Cancer Screening At Health Department April 22 ‘Little’ Memphis To Host Own Blues Concert Nursing Home Expanding to Offer Adult Day Care Service Conservation Department To Spend More On County Roads USDA Awards $500,000 To NEMORPC For Revolving Business Loan Program SCR-I Board Beginning To Fill Teaching Positions For 2004-05 School Year Windy Weather Whips Up Pair Of Grassfires April 15 City Utilities Take Step Forward In Technology World Street Department Considering Replacing Intersections On Square Theatre To End Season With ‘The Passion of The Christ’ Council Approves Sale Of Property To Allow Memphis Business To Expand Local Marine Returns From Deployment Illinois Girls Hurt In Crash Near Gorin April 8 Memphis Gets Plug In Electric Coop Magazine City Council Retains Incumbents, County Road and Bridge Tax Passed At April 6 Election Arbor Day Foundation Honors Memphis Again Legal Battle Over Conceal and Carry Law Has Local Sheriff’s Department Taking ‘Wait and See’ Approach County Kick-Off Cancer Crusade Group Meets MACC Seeking Entries For Arts Festival April 1 Ballots Finalized As Filing Closes For August Primary Outstanding MSIP Review Clouded By Continuing State Funding Concerns Health Department Seeking Community Awareness During Public Health Month Election Officials Expecting Low Voter Turnout On Tuesday City To Give Trees For Right Of Ways Blood Drive Monday At Baptist Church March 25 New Voter I.D. Cards Being Mailed McNamar To Be Featured Guest At ACS Cancer Crusade Kickoff High Winds Whip Grassfire Across More Than 200 Acres Scotland County Senior Citizens Can Save With New Medicare Prescription Program Voters Will Decide Future of Special Road and Bridge Levy NEMO AAA Board, Silver Haired Legislature Are Seeking Nominations March 18 Little Fox Outdoor Shop Opening For Business In Memphis March 20th Bible Grove To Host Big Buck Show Bentz GM Country SC Speedway To Host Car Show Health Department Receives $54,329 Grant From MFH Gas Still Cheaper In Missouri Despite 9-Cent March Increase Final Little League Sign-Up Is March 20 March 11 Statewide Severe Weather Drill Set For March 16 Missouri Farms Numbers Continue To Decline Large Crowd Attends 59th Annual Soil and Water Conservation District Meeting Community Action Agency Seeking CDBG ‘Head Start’ for New Building Property Dispute Points Out City Council Has Little Control Over Marshal Job March 4 Filing Opens With Flourish Of Candidates Local Farmer Heading Group Working To Bring Corn Processing Plant To Region Two More SCR-I Teachers Reveal Retirement Plans Munzlinger Pledges To Keep Fighting for Northeast Missouri Community Cancer Crusade Set To Kick-Off Dr. Schneider To Offer Men’s ‘Tune-Up’ Public Seminar February 26 Walkers Will Help Raise Money For Tiger Trail Speedway Planning Racecar Show On Memphis Square Soil and Water To Host Annual District Meeting Omicron Theta’s March Madness Lending a Hand To Aid Ronald McDonald House Arbela Hosts Gathering To Welcome Soldier Back Home Little League Sign-Up Set For March 6th February 19 County Candidates’ Ballot Spots To Be Decided By Lottery Bentz GM Country Secures Speedway Sponsorship Rights Chamber Seeking Slogan For Festival Christian Church Turning Donated Building Into Community Youth Center Friday the 13th Proves Unlucky For Local Motorist Holt, Cotton Crowned At Courtwarming February 12 Pool Contract Awarded To Sparks Construction Chamber Gets Approval For Art & Wine Festival Outdoor Shop Leases Building On City Square KMEM, News Director Rick Fischer Receive Media Honor Relay For Life Takes First Steps Toward 2004 Event Memphis City Council Awards Bids At February Meeting February 5 Project ChildSafe Visits Memphis To Promote Firearms Safety Extension To Host Farm/City Fest in Memphis Longhorn Conversions’ Trailers Gaining Notority For Manufacturer Retirements, Resignations Will Create Vacancies On SCR-I Staff Pessimistic Forecast Could See SCR-I Funding Cut By $475,000 January 29 Filing Period Closes For April Election Director of Nursing’s Resignation Draws Large Crowds To Care Center Meetings Basketball Tournament Raises $2,700 For After Prom Project Scotland County Ranked 44 In Missouri KIDS COUNT Report January 22 Memphis Woman Hurt In Crash Near Cemetery Local Customers Receiving E-mail Banking Scams Chase Ends In Scotland County With Drug Arrest Local Groups Join Together To Share the Harvest With Needy Families Brothers Arrested Following Altercation At Gorin Home Crawford Man Facing Assault Charges After Alleged Shooting January 15 Escaped Prisoner Takes Own Life After Being Recaptured Heaton Sturm Is First Baby Of New Year Born At SCMH PD Makes Two Arrests After Search Of Home Citizens Take Center Stage At January City Council Meeting Fire Department Responds To 54 Emergency Calls In 2003 2003 A Record Year For SCMH Birthing Center January 8 Berkowitz Seeking To Regain Seat In House Of Representatives Grace Cameron Celebrates 100th Birthday Red Cross Emergency Blood Appeal Extended Gerth’s Celebrates 100 Years In Business January 1 Victim’s Brother Arrested Following Shooting In Gorin Chamber Announces Winners In Christmas Decorating Contest Fire Department’s New Rescue Unit Ready To Roll Donors Needed For Blood Drive January 12 NEMO Area Agency On Aging Public Hearings
