2005 News 2004 News 2003 News 2002 News 2001 News December 28 Fog Blamed For Crash Injuring Downing Residents Local Dairy Producers Helping Push Farmers’ All Natural Creamery To Top Chamber Names Holiday Lighting Contest Winners Filing Underway For City, School Board Jobs Missouri Conservation Department Confirms Mountain Lion Sightings SCR-I Taking Part In 35th Annual High-land Tourney December 21 Mother, Three Children Left Homeless By Fire SCR-I Among Schools Recognized For ‘Distinction in Performance’ Granger Girls Hurt In Crash East of Memphis John Myers Appointed City Marshal Following Police Chief’s Resignation Seven Men Face Federal Charges Involving Illegal Firearms Sales At Rutledge Flea Market December 14 Five Memphis Residents Hurt In Accident City Finding Limited Legal Options For Exit From Electricity Contract Medicare Assistance Seminar Rescheduled for Monday Frozen Sprinkler Head Causes Scare at Hospital Water, Waste, CAFOs Top List Of Concerns Voiced During DNR Director’s Stop in Memphis CREP Program Being Considered For Local Watershed Protection December 7 Severe Storms Spare Scotland County DNR Boss To Visit Memphis Memphis Community Players to Perform Friday and Saturday Early-Morning Fire Claims Life of Memphis Man Shoemyer Asks MoDOT for Spending Details on Local Maintenance Following Storm Delays Downing City Board Discusses Using Surveillance Cameras November 30 Gorin Woman Hurt In Thanksgiving Day Crash Santa’s Helpers in Full Swing in Memphis Grass Fire Lights Up Bible Grove Skyline Heated Hearing Pits Neighbor vs. Neighbor In Pig Debate Holiday Crowds Set New Record at Theatre Special Clinic Promotes Great American Smokeout November 23 Health Department Receives $275,000 in Missouri Foundation for Health Grants Iowa Teens Hurt In Crash Near Brock Station Theatre To Host G.I. Holiday Jukebox Gorin Fire Department Receives $76,000 Grant for New Truck Rep. Munzlinger Sponsors Medicare Sign-Up Seminar City Begins Overhaul of Zoning November 16 Opening Weekend Deer Hunting Harvest Climbs Higher In 2006 Former SCR-I Graduate Has Work Published St. John’s Catholic Church to Host Thanksgiving Dinner School Board Fills Vocational Ag/ FFA Position At November Meeting Community Clothes Closet Thriving Beta Christmas Bazaar To Celebrate 25th Anniversary November 9 Chamber Announces Holiday Plans Natural Gas Price Drop Means Lower Winter Heating Bill EQIP Offers Incentives for Conservation Practices Voters Head To Local Polls In Mass For November 7th Election From High School Graduation, to the Battle of the Bulge – The Tale of WWII Veteran Ted Gundy WEALTH Group Recognizes November as Diabetes Awareness Month November 2 Kirksville Doctor Returning To Roots at SCMH Sheriff’s Department Closing In On Suspected Fuel Thieves Pheasants Forever Banquet To Be Held Saturday Night Face to Face with Your Candidates for State Senator and Representative Amendment 2 Debate Centering Around Question ‘To Clone or Not To Clone’ FSA Announces Emergency Loan Designation Caused By Drought October 26 Search For Missing Boy Ends Quickly Homeland Security Grant Program Will Include Local Decision Makers SCR-I To Hold Parent-Teacher Conferences on Friday Missouri Voters Being Asked To Raise State’s Minimum Wage Democratic Candidates Appear At Memphis Forum No Photo ID, No Straight Party Tickets At November Polling Places October 19 Amendment 3 Could Make Smokers Pay More To Puff Blown Fuses Cause Power Outage in City SCR-I Discount Card #344 is $100 Winner Local Couple Escapes Plane’s Emergency Landing Unscathed Deer Blamed For Accident Leaving Two Teens Injured Grave of War of 1812 Veteran To Receive New Marker Courtesy of VA October 12 Bloomfield, Iowa Man Killed In Motorcycle Crash on Highway 136 Relay For Life Making Plans For Seventh Relay Long-Time FFA Advisor Bill Cottrell Submits Resignation NEMO Network Receives $207,496 USDA Grant To Improve System City Looking to Crack Down On Vandalism Police Department Seeking $10,000 Equipment Grant October 5 Greentop Man Hurt In Wreck On Route T Tri-County Cooperative Offering City Options On Electricity Front Newspaper Readers Can View Full Text of Ballot Proposals October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Father, Son Team To Perform Benefit For Youth Center September 28 Lil’ Memphis Blues Society To Host Concert Alternative Energies To Be On Display At Annual Dancing Rabbit Open House Forfeited Drug Money Helping Better Arm Sheriff’s Department Fall Brings Change but Need for Blood Remains Constant Homecoming Parade To be Held Friday September 21 School Board Fills Coaching Vacancies at Recent Meeting Disaster Declaration Sought For Drought-Stricken Missouri Newspaper Looking For Questions For Candidates MoPEP Rep Offers Little Immediate Relief For High Electricity Rates ‘Living Well With A Chronic Condition’ Educational Series Coming to Memphis September 14 Rezoning Paves Way For New Health Department Facility Homecoming at SCR-I Will Be Sept. 29th Extension Week To Be Celebrated Budget Woes Force City To Make Cuts Germany To Paris, A Dream Come True for Local Travelers September 7 Schuyler Teens Hurt In Crash Near Memphis Sheriff Warns Residents To Protect Personal Info Cook Gets Back on Motorcycle To Tour Missouri’s County Seats Scotland County Antique Fair Results Announced Leaders of Tomorrow Picture Date Announced Servicemen To Be Honored At City Hall August 31 Fair Board Hoping To Put Dent In Light Fund With Demolition Derby Fundraiser Memphis Man Has Four Times the Fun on His Birthday MDC, County Continue To Work Together for Community Rotary Club Bringing Big Top Back To Memphis New CT Scanner Is a Lifesaver For Memphis Man August 24 ‘Senior Chase’ Results In Six-Car Pileup On First Day of School Marshal Suspended, Officer Resigns During City Council Special Meeting MoDOT To Seal Route A In Scotland County Next Week Antique Fair Will Feature ‘Old and New, Tried and True’ Are Terrorists Shopping in Memphis Stores? Downing Woman Flown From Accident Scene August 17 SCR-I School Board Honors Pledge To Lower Tax Levy Bible Grove Preservation Day To Be Held August 19 Local Volunteers Help Relocate Community Clothes Closet SCMH Adds ‘One of Best Doctors in America’ to Local Medical Staff MoDOT Reopens Route AA Bridge Pump Outage Closes Pool Temporarily August 10 Glasscock, Rockhold, Clark Win Local Races In Primary Election Dog Attack Leads City To Consider Pit Bull Ban Rising Electric Bills Are Shocking Memphis Residents Scotland County Remains at Stage 2 Drought Alert As Conditions Worsen Across State Missouri Farm, Real Estate Values Continue To Climb August 3 Local Officers Take Part In Largest Drug Enforcement Operation In State History Mike Kelly To Headline MU Rally at Keith’s Police Looking Into Cruelty to Animal Cases Local Shoppers Can Take Advantage Of Sales Tax Holiday August 4th-6th Local Health Department Begins Pandemic Influenza Preparedness County Clerk’s Office To Be Open Saturday July 27 New NMCAA, Head Start Facility To Be Unveiled Thursday Parks Group To Meet Tonight To Discuss Repairs Memphis Police Investigating Break-In At Swimming Pool High School, Junior High Students To Enroll Next Week Motor Fuel Demand, Prices Remain High July 20 SCR-I School Board Approves Bus, Mower Purchases at July Meeting Legion Post Holds Flag Retirement Service Three Men Injured in Crash on Highway 136 First Heat Wave of Summer Hits Region With Dangerous Conditions July 13 Health Department’s Rezoning Request Hits Snag MoDOT Resealing Route 136 in Schuyler County SCMH Women’s Center Dedication Adds Another Asset to Local Healthcare System Search For Rutledge Man Ends Tragically Carnahan Awards Grant To SCR-I To Preserve History Downing Board Hears From Public at Hog Confinement Meeting July 6 Newspaper Office Renovation To Give New Look to West Side of the Square Voters Must Register By July 12th School Board Approves Three-Percent Raise For All SCR-I District Employees Propane Leak Closes Portion Of City Square Fire Destroys Barn on Gene Holt’s Property Blood Donors To Receive Free Busch Stadium T-Shirt June 29 Relay For Life Raises $24,000 To Fight Cancer Community Players To Present Broadway Musical Review First Baby Arrives Early at New Women’s Center Two Schuyler County Teens Hurt In Crash Arbela Couple Injured In Wreck Near Atlanta Treasurer Encourages Readers To Check Local Papers For Unclaimed Property June 22 Iowa Man Takes Own Life During Traffic Stop Absentee Ballots Available at County Clerk’s Office Funding Cut Forcing County To Change Bridge Plans Local Marine Marks Passing Of Comrades Community Players Preparing For Broadway Musical Review June 15 Gorin Man Killed In Train Accident Parent Voices Concerns At School Board Meeting MACC To Host Peanut Day In Memphis Law Officers Investigate Rash of Local Accidents Relay For Life Hitting the Streets June 16-17 Fair’s 128th Showing Arriving A Little Early June 8 Harry Baker Estate Leaves $400,000 Gift to Cemetery Reel To Spearhead Local Leg of Veterans History Project Organizer Planning Youth Swim Team In Memphis Whitney Named New Emergency Management Director Gorin Man Arrested On Drug Charges Onyx Agrees To New Three-Year Trash Contract June 1 Project Awarded for Bridge Rehab in Scotland County FFA Members To Monitor Corn Rootworms Teens Hurt In Car Crash In Schuyler County WIC Is Working In Scotland County and Across Missouri State Board of Education Drops the Wyaconda School District to “Unaccredited” Status Relay For Life Celebrating Conquering Cancer May 25 Meth Lab Bust Leads To Felony Charges Against Memphis Man School Board Makes Extra Duty Assignments At June Meeting V.F.W. Post To Host 60th Annual Memorial Day Service Chamber of Commerce Announces Winners In Mother’s Day Contest Jessica Humes Receives $1,500 Shelter Scholarship May 18 Five-Year Water Plan for Memphis Headed To DNR For Approval City’s Trash Contract To Be Rebid Relay For Life Is Fast Approaching City Council Delays Sign Removals Until June Downing City Hall To Get New Fence Scotland County Extension to Hold Garden N’ Grow Program May 11 Memphis Fire Department Receives Improved ISO Ranking SCR-I Expanding Summer School Feeding Program Council Votes To Eliminate Several Of City’s 4-Way Stops Trash Service Seeking Price Hike In July May 4 Chamber To Honor One Lucky Mother Search Warrant Results In Three Drug Arrests St. Paul Lutheran Church To Host First Services In New Building Volunteers Making Nursing Home A True ‘Care’ Center SCMH Celebrates National Hospital Week With A Look Back In Time April 27 Memphis Man Hurt In Crash On Route EE Arizona Family ‘Meats’ Its Match In Memphis Traffic Stop Nets Drug Bust In Memphis Police Conduct Subject of Special City Council Meeting National Nurses Day To Be Celebrated May 6th Pepsi SC Speedway Kicks Off 2006 Season April 20 City Council Approves $175,000 Airport-Improvement Project Gas Prices Up At Pump, Now Going Up At Home School Board Adds New Member, Elects Officers Route H Bridge in Scotland County Reopens Candidates Needed For Fair Queen Contest Improvements Continuing at Legion Park April 13 Racer Collapses In Pits At Scotland County Speedway Ministerial Alliance Plans Good Friday Service Simultaneous Blazes Cause Firemen To Split Forces Federal Grant Helps Juvenile Office Secure New Vehicle New City Officials Sworn In At April 6th Council Meeting Antique Fair Association Preparing For August Event April 6 Voters Make Changes At April 4th Election Highway 15 Resurfacing Work To Begin Next Week New Technology Ensuring Every Scotland County Vote Counts Higher Fuel, Fertilizer Costs Mean More Beans, Less Corn in 2006 Cattle Rustling Being Revived From Old West Days By Rising Beef Prices March 30 Voters To Decide Municipal, School Issues on Tuesday Genealogical Work Concludes With Induction Into Mayflower Society Anonymous Donor Gives $7,000 To ‘The Place’ County Clerk’s Office To Be Open Saturday Clothes Closet Seeking Support From Community Farmers’ Market Workshop To Be Held In Memphis March 23 Free Seminar Will Help Locals With Medicare Part D Decisions National Weather Service To Host Storm-Spotter Training in Memphis Local Manufacturer Building Prototype for New Hygienicare Disability RV Cancer Fund Continues To Expand Benefits MoDOT Closes Route H For Bridge Repair March 16 Tornado Reported In Arbela Area SCR-I Among Missouri’s Most Improved Schools On MAP Test SCMH Adds New State-Of-The-Art Chemistry Analyzer Local Volunteers Planning Relief Trip To Louisiana School Board Offers Teacher Contracts At March Meeting March 9 Fire Damages Interior of Mobile Home Filing Opens With Flurry As Candidates Declare For Offices Council Approves Airport Agreement At March Meeting Food Pantry Expanding Efforts To Keep Local Community Fed Rain May Bring Relief For Fire Departments March 2 Soil and Water Conservation District’s Annual Meeting Set For March 10th Board of Education Sets 06-07 Calendar at February Meeting March 8th Is Final Day To Register To Vote Circuit, Associate Circuit Courts To Consolidate Offices Cancer, Heart Disease, Alzheimer’s Are Top Concerns According to Local Health Survey Little Paws Rockin’ Out On March 11th February 23 Cancer Fund To Host Benefit Supper, Auction Fire Damages Home On Bence Avenue Hospital’s New Women’s Center Nearing Completion Filing Opens Tuesday For County Offices Successful Benefit Caps Off Golf Course Fund-Raising Efforts World Day Of Prayer To Be Held March 3rd February 16 Care Center Adds New Rehabilitation Service City Awards Contract For Baker Farm Lease Memphis Teen Hurt In Crash On Brock Bottom Two Memphis Motorists Injured In Fatal Crash in Schuyler County Gorin Man Hurt After Child Accidentally Fires Shotgun Lady Tigers Earn #1 Seed In Districts February 9 Economic Development Lease On Hold Pending Site Review MACC To Host Valentine’s Day Dance Firemen’s Basketball Tourney Helps Raise Nearly $4,000 For After-Prom Missouri Farm Numbers Decline Slightly in 2005 Memphis City Council Handles Short Agenda at February Meeting February 2 PF, MDC, City of Memphis Joining Forces On Project Firemen Douse Blaze At Arbela Wood Products Corn Growers Coalition To Host Dinner in Memphis VFW To Host Benefit Supper and Auction for Golf Course Michael Burks To Perform at Winter Party Gorin Man Arrested On Drug Charges SCR-I School Board To Sell Surplus Property January 26 Fitness Center Hosting Open House For Grand Opening Of New Gym Theater To Host Showing Of ‘The Last Farewell’ Relay For Life Kickoff To Be Held Feb. 15th Firemen To Get New, Improved Turn-Out Gear State Auditor’s Office Completes Review of Scotland County Ballots Finalized For April 4th Municipal, School Board Elections January 19 Carson Miller is First Baby of 2006 at SCMH Chamber of Commerce Making Plans For 2006 Warmer, Dry Winter Leaves Region Ripe For Grass Fires Donor Offers $25,000 Challenge To Timber Ridge Golf Course Identity Theft Program To Be Held at Theater January 12 Races Shaping Up For Mayor, Marshal and Alderman County Cancer Fund Planning Money Makers City Awaiting Signature On New Lease Agreement Police Department To Target Traffic Offenders Candidates File For Local School Boards Grass Fire Burns Shed On Ward Benson Property January 5 Two Local Firemen Travel South To Aid In Hurricane Relief Efforts License Office Will Relocate, Remain Open Blood Drive Tuesday At 1st Baptist Church Former Arbela Man Found Murdered In Wyoming Three Suspects Indicted In Murder of Arbela Teen Computer Grant Helping Sheriff’s Department Wade Through Paperwork
