2004 News 2003 News 2002 News 2001 News December 29 Fire Department Receives New Thermal Imager MACC Names Decorating Contest Winners Higher Demand, Lower Inventories Help Support Higher Petroleum Prices December 22 Shooting in Gorin Under Investigation Circuit Clerk and Recorder of Deeds Position To Split Into Two Offices South Portion of Highway 15 To Be Resurfaced In 2006 SCR-I Board Approves Plans For Summer School December 15 Four File For Embattled City Marshal Office Little League Plans Changes For ‘06 Season Chamber Needs More Entries For Holiday Contest Council Gives Okay For All-States To Continue Expansion Robinson Wins First Annual Timber Ridge Texas Hold’em Tournament of Champions December 8 Salvation Army Volunteer Bell Ringers Needed in Memphis Citizen Complaint Raises Zoning Issues With Proposed Business Expansion Santa’s Helpers Seeking Additional Public Support New Contracts Awarded at City Council Meeting School Board Approves Sale Of Latest Building Trades Home December 1 Salaries To Increase In 2007 For County Officials Santa Letter Deadline Set For December 14th Chamber Gives Away $300 in Memphis Bucks DESE Gives SCR-I School District Good Grades On Annual Report Card Missouri Deer Hunting Totals Down in 2005 Holiday Matinee Movies Set To Begin Saturday November 24 Memphis Man Hurt In Crash On Lovers Lane Thanksgiving Meal Will Cost More This Year Grant Will Help County Update Voting Equipment Local 4-H Kids Sending Fan Mail To U.S. Troops Physicians Warn Of Depression During Holidays Grace Rudy To Celebrate 100th Birthday November 17 Gorin Woman Life Flighted From Crash Site Former Memphis Men Helping Bring Power Back To Hurricane Victims Miss Northeast Missouri To Be Crowned Saturday Night County Salary Commission To Set Pay Scale For Local Elected Officials Deer Season Off To Good Start In Scotland County Chamber to Kick Off Holiday Shopping Season On Sunday November 10 City Council Considering Options for Memphis City Marshal Position Gift From Kerr Estate Helps Care Center Buy New Van Luncheon Planned To Honor Local Veterans in Memphis Kahoka Man Killed In Crash On Route H All Ahead For All-States As Local Company Set To Expand Superintendents Pose Question, ‘To Drive or Not To Drive?’ November 3 Audit Reveals SCR-I In Strong Financial Condition With $1.7 Million Balance Elvis To Perform Again in Memphis Fire Destroys Combine at Norton Farm Arbela Woman Hurt In Crash On Route H Scotland County Cancer Fund Celebrates First Anniversary Pheasants Forever Banquet To Be Held Saturday Night October 27 Fair Board, Race Fans Start Fund Drive For New Lights Financial, Phone Scams Being Reported Locally Relay For Life Blitz Of County On October 26 High Pump Prices Have Some Seeking Fuel Alternatives October 20 Resurfacing Work To Begin On Highway 15 Three Scotland County Properties Recognized as Century Farms NRCS Reports EQIP Sign Up Deadline Holidays Are Main Focus Of MACC Meeting Romanian Farmers Visit Local Dairy As Part of USDA Tour Firemen Douse Small Blaze In Bean Field October 13 Pepsi-Cola Marks End of An Era As Bottling Line Closes Mom’s Treasured Recipes Cooking Up A Cure for Cancer Property Issues Highlight October Memphis City Council Meeting Galaxy Cable Franchise Sold To LongView Communications Conservation Department ‘Sharing the Harvest’ With Scotland County October 6 MoDOT Seeking Input On Proposed Route D Bridge Replacement Project Three-Day Race Spectacular At Memphis Track Rep. Behnen to Announce Candidacy for State Senate Construction Set To Begin on New $445,000 Head Start Building Board Approves Purchase of Cameras For School Buses September 29 Illinois Men Hurt In Crash on Clay Street Community Crusade Raises Over $6,200 To Fight Cancer Movies Return to Memphis Cinema This Weekend Local Distributor To Offer New Option for Soft Drink Consumers Rotary Bingo To Begin Thursday Night Missouri Row Crop Yield Forecasts Down From 2004 September 22 Memphis V.F.W. Post #4958 To Celebrate 60th Anniversary Class of 1950 Dedicates Trophy Case in Memory of Classmates Bible Grove To Host 5th Annual Rodeo Patrol Adds New Trooper To Zone 6 Two Memphis Men Escape Crash With Minor Injuries Gorin Alumni Association To Host 50th Annual Banquet September 15 Community Development Block Grant Will Help County Replace 10 Bridges Local Fund-raisers Being Held For Hurricane Victims Texas Man Hurt In Crash On Highway 136 Effects of Hurricane Katrina Being Felt Locally Two Memphis Businesses Burglarized Library Earns $2,100 Grant for Computers September 8 Sheriff’s Deputy Busts Meth Lab Near Crawford Rising Fuel Prices Costing Local Utility Customers School Board Considering Adding Baseball After Boosters Pledge $3,500 John Cook Completes Motorcycle ‘Tour de Capitals’ Senator Talent Outlines Anti-Meth Legislation at Memphis Meeting Council Grants Variance To Allow Brush Property to be Considered For Rezoning September 1 School Board Gives Go Ahead For One-Year 29 Cent Tax Levy Increase Drought Costing Northeast Missouri Farmers the Most Neighbors of Proposed Hog Farm Voice Concerns at Public Hearing Rutledge Fall Celebration Planned For September 17 Highway Patrol Ready for Labor Day Weekend Internet Search Lands Benson In Memphis as Hospital’s New DON August 25 Scotland County to Honor ‘Antiques, Today’s History’ Erwin Named Runner-Up in 2005 Missouri State Fair Queen Contest Family Brings Mishra Back to Memphis and SCMH School Opens With a Number of New Faces Among the Faculty Blood Drive Dedicated to Austin Poole August 18 National Wild Turkey Federation Chapter To Host Fund Raiser Pool Averages 100 Swimmers Per Day in First Season County To Host Public Hearing On Proposed Hog Operation Bible Grove Preservation Day To Be Held August 20 Gorin Fall Festival Planned For September 3rd and 4th August 11 Calling All Cars – City, County Agree To Pursue Joint Dispatching Contract SCR-I Mandatory Drug Testing To Be Held Aug. 12 Guardsmen Set To Return After Deployment Board of Education Prepares For Start of New School Year Citizen Concerns Addressed at Special Meeting in Arbela Missouri Farm and Real Estate Values Jump Up 10 Percent August 4 Memphis Marine Helping Hinder Iraqi Insurgents No Summer Production for Players Battle Of Athens Reenactment To Be Held August 6th-7th Local Girls Hurt In Crash in Memphis Back-to-School Shoppers To Enjoy Sales Tax Holiday July 28 Gorin Firemen Receive $2,506 Matching Grant NMCAA To Host Back To School Fair Downing Teen Seriously Hurt In Accident Library Awarded Local Records Preservation Grant Kahoka Police Chief Arrested in Chillicothe High School, Junior High Students To Enroll Next Week July 21 City Sign Grant Not Approved By MoDOT Shelleys Named Scotland County Farm Family Missouri Drought Effects Felt Across 106 Counties Crash Statistics Continue To Climb in County Auction Premiums Help Support Fair Exhibitors Local Telephone Rates To Go Up In August July 14 Water Tower Work Could Mean Low Water Pressure County, City To Revisit Dispatching Agreement Fair Queen To Be Crowned Opening Night Area Officials Lend a Hand at Youth Center Workday Memphis Council Reviews Needed Repairs For City-Owned Properties Double Features To Be Held Saturday At SCS July 7 Rotarians Bestow Awards at Annual Banquet FX Series, 30 Days, To Feature Dancing Rabbit School Board Approves Deficit Budget For 2005-06 Fiscal Year June 30 Rutledge Teen Injured In ATV Accident Old Vehicles – Are They Fixer-Up Projects or Public Nuisances? Area Shows To Fill The Sky With Fireworks Local Cowboys Get Chance To Challenge Pros at Scotland County Fair Rodeo Memphis Man Hurt In Crash On Route N June 23 How Tall is Too TALL? Blood Donors Can Win Free Cardinals Tickets Missouri Seeking Owners of Millions in Unclaimed Property Rutledge Man Seriously Hurt In Accident Demolition Derby To Be an Equal Opportunity Crasher Sheriff Warns About Possible Scams in Area June 16 Extensive Improvements Planned for Route 136 MACC Asking Motorists To ‘Shell Out’ For Peanuts MoDOT Says ‘Practical Design’ Will Save Almost $400 million Rutledge Girl Injured In Two-Car Crash Summer Youth Choir Being Formed at Dancing Rabbit Reception Planned For Cancer Survivors June 9 Peanut Days To Be Held June 18th Improvements to Continue at Legion Park SCMH Closing Road To Allow Expansion SCR-I School Board Approves 2.8 Percent Raise For Teachers Liquor Licenses Lead Agenda At June City Council Meeting Local Relay for Life Set For June 17-18 June 2 Westhoff House Destroyed By Early Morning Fire Corporal Byrne Finally Brought Home To Rest Miss Northeast Missouri Send Off To Be Held June 3rd Vietnam Vet Fred Clapp Delivers Memorial Day Message in Memphis Gorin Man Seriously Hurt In ATV Crash Library Summer Reading Program To Begin June 6 May 26 Memphis Teen Seriously Hurt In ATV Crash Cancer Fund Tripling Benefits For Victims PF, MDC To Host Kids Fishing Derby New City Swimming Pool Ready to Make a Splash V.F.W. Post To Host 59th Annual Memorial Day Service May 19 Memphis Boosters To Host Mizzou Sports Dinner Candidates Needed for Miss Scotland County City Pursuing $50,000 Grant For New Signs, Sidewalks William Reckenberg Appointed as New East Ward Alderman Crash Numbers Continue To Climb Locally Dr. Schneider Honored For 10 Years at SCMH May 12 Eight Candidates Seeking Vacant Alderman Position Funeral Parade Route Set For ‘Bring John Home’ Ceremony Memphis Man Indicted In Adair County Civil War Battle Returning to Memphis City Square Ridge Street To Receive $7,700 Safety Upgrade City Set To Repeal Liquor License Ban on Square May 5 Thailand Rotary Group Study Exchange Team Visits Memphis SCMH Marks 35th Year With Continued Progress, Expansion Rural Water, City Meet To Set the Record Straight on Recent Split Stolen Vehicle Recovered in Scotland County April 28 MoDOT Director Addresses Area Leaders in Memphis Fire Damages Home On East Mety Street Special Meeting Focuses On New Signs For City Long Range Planning Committee Sets Goals For School District Volunteers Prove Nursing Home is a ‘Caring Center’ Chamber To Offer ‘Sweets and Treats’ at Art Festival April 21 Illinois Anglers Get Caught With Some ‘Expensive’ Fish Law Officers Conduct Safety Checkpoint Auditor’s Office Begins Scotland County Review Scotland County Speedway To Open Race Season This Weekend SCR-I School Board Holds Special Meeting to Certify Election Results Organizers Plan Practice For Civil War Union Burial April 14 Mike Stone Named Mayor of Memphis Kahoka Man Hurt In Crash Near Granger Rec-Plex To Begin Gym Construction This Summer DOR Offers License Bureau Contract To Greta Slocum City Water Rates on the Rise Again City ‘Baling’ Out of Hay Contract April 7 Just 20-Percent Of Voters Take Part In April 5th Election Voters Back Road and Bridge Fund Free Trees Available To City Residents SCR-I School Board Discusses Long Range Planning Committee Incumbents Returned To Serve On SCR-I Board Cancer Fund To Host Supper, Benefit Auction March 31 Ballot Light On Races Likely Means Low Voter Turnout for April 5th Election Firemen Put Out Pair Of Grassfires Pepsi’s Glass-Bottle Line Is ‘All Washed Up’ Memphis Police Investigating Theft of Trailer and Race Car March 24 Area Search Warrants Lead To Seven Arrests On Drug Charges Gorin Man Hurt In Crash West of Medill Schools’ Recycling Contest To Conclude March 31st Voters Being Asked to Renew ½ Cent Sales Tax for County Road and Bridge Fair Board Pursuing $10,000 Upgrade To North Restrooms Cancer Crusade Kick-Off Dinner Set For April 6 March 17 Local Crash Numbers Up In February Speedway To Host 2nd Annual Car Show On Memphis Square Little League To Hold Final Sign Up Keokuk Man Arrested In Burglary Case Radio Gift Will Help Local Dispatching Tabletop Drill To Be Focus Of SCERM Meeting March 10 SCR-I Drama Class To Perform ‘The Legend Of Robin Hood . . . Sort Of’ Downing Man Seriously Hurt In Crash East Of Lancaster Water Rates Subject Of Work Session License Bureau Contract Dispute Ends With Mayor’s Resignation P.E.O. Makes Donation To S. C. Cancer Fund Spring’s Weeks Away, But Grass Fire Season Is Here March 3 Pepsi Donating Vehicles To Area Fire Departments Deer Blamed For Two-Car Crash Near Arbela Sirens To Sound For Statewide Severe Weather Drill March 15 City of Memphis Taking Over County Licensing Duties Arrest Made In Fairgrounds Vandalism Case School Board Receives Pair Of Teacher Resignations At February Meeting February 24 Soil District Meeting To Be Held March 3rd Memphis Chapter Celebrating National FFA Week February 19th-26th Scotland County Teams To Open District Play Tuesday Night Tip Leads To Meth Drug Bust In Rutledge Memphis Democrat Planning Special ‘Bring John Home’ Edition February 17 Three Motorists Injured In Crash On Route BB Dairy Day Program Set for February 24th in Memphis Commerce Department Invests $52,000 in Northeast Missouri $1.3 Million Grant Delivering New Birthing Center For SCMH To Marines, Bridge Is Like ‘Big Lego Set’ Gorin R-III Receives $99,773 DESE Technology Grant February 10 Sheriff’s Department Busts Meth Lab Near Arbela Weiler Brothers Open Parts Store In Memphis Tiger Trail Team Hosting 4th Annual Walk-a-thon Contested Hay Contract Headed To City Attorney For Final Judgment RPC To Offer Severe Weather, Tornado Spotter Training City Of Downing To Hold Budget Hearing February 3 Scotland County Cancer Fund Issues First Benefit Check Nine Year Old Hurt In Crash on Clay Street Fire Destroys Business on Highway 136 in Downing School Board To Hire Engineer For Curb and Gutter Project Local Woman Hurt In Crash On Highway 15 Relay For Life Kick-Off January 27 Gorin Home Destroyed By Fire Sunday Morning Sheriff Warns Of Scams Seeking Personal Info Chamber Sets Dates For 2005 Events County Enacts Ordinance To Limit Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations EMS Providers Gather For Emergency Planning Meeting Two SCR-I Teachers Vying For KTVO Dream Wedding Giveaway January 20 Ambulance Service Makes 512 Responses During 2004 Blues Society Sponsoring Concert At V.F.W. Highway Patrol Report Reveals Safer Year On Local Roads Inclement Weather Makes For Tough Decisions For School Administrators Highway 61 Project Moved Forward Thanks To Amendment 3 Funding January 13 2004 Was Relatively Calm Year For Fire Department Bingo Returns To County On Thursday Local Agencies Teaming Up To Help Area Youth January Memphis City Council Meeting Focuses On Contracts Area Sustains First Major Winter Storm, More Possibly on the Way Free Bone Density Screenings For Scotland County Residents January 6 Memphis Girl Injured In New Year’s Eve Crash Sheriff’s Department Looking Into Thefts In Bible Grove Area Paper Makes New Year’s Resolutions Kloe Robbins Is 1st Baby Of New Year At SCMH Memphis UMC Collecting For Tsunami Disaster Relief Ballots Filling Out For Variety Of Local Governing Boards
