Area News
Grants Funds Helping City Divert Recyclables from Landfill
A pair of grants from the Solid Waste Management District have helped the City of Memphis implement a recycling program, pictured (L to R) with some of the equipment funded by the grants are Lucinda Chubb of the Northeast Missouri Regional Planning Commission, city administrator Allen Creek and city clerk Angela Newman. The city of…
Read MoreNew Law Offers More Options for Missouri Voters
Most recently Senate Bill 631 passed in the Missouri senate, which makes modifications regarding the current elections this year. The bill was introduced by Senator Daniel Hegeman (R), who also sponsored the bill with Dan Shaul (R)on December 2, 2019 and was signed into effect by Governor Parson three weeks ago. One week before SB…
Read MoreCOUNTY CLERK’S NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that a Primary Election will be held at the regular polling places in each precinct of said County of Scotland and that the polls will be open between the hours of 6:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M., on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in August 2020, being the 4th…
Read MoreNew Scotland County Trooper Coming From Latest Highway Patrol Academy Graduating Class
The newest member of the Scotland County law enforcement community will be commissioned with the Missouri State Highway Patrol with the latest graduating class of the department’s law enforcement academy this week. Kurtis A. Hurley of Center, MO will be among the 21 graduates honored in a ceremony June 26th. He has been commissioned to…
Read MoreNew Sawmill Business Helping Local Timber Come ‘Full Circle’
Joshua Clarkweiss fashions some local timber into lumber on his portable sawmill, which is part of his new business venture, Full Circle Forest Products. Just like pork chops don’t really come from the grocery store, 2×4’s don’t originate at the lumber yard. Wood for building comes from trees, and one local business owner has recently…
Read MoreBlessing Named to Missouri Western Spring 2020 Dean’s List
St. Joseph, Mo. – June 4, 2020 – Missouri Western State University named 394 students to the Dean’s Honor Roll for the spring semester of 2020. Students who carried 12 hours or more for graded credit and earned a grade point average of 3.5 or better qualify for the honor. Abby Blessing of Memphis was…
Read MoreScheduling a Ride with OATS Transit
(Macon, MO June 15, 2020) OATS Transit, a Missouri-based transportation provider, is in the process of rolling out new procedures designed to make scheduling trips and dispatching buses more efficient. For the last 49 years, local residents and drivers have dedicated hundreds of hours answering phones and taking reservations for trips. Beginning July 8, 2020,…
Read MoreRecent Arrivals at Scotland County Memorial Library
Adult Non-Fiction Curbside service is available. Give us a call if you’d like any of these new books. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything, by B.J. Fogg Plan Your Estate, by Denis Clifford About Your Father and other Celebrities, I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mom to her Dirty Son,…
Read MoreAshcroft Awards Reading Challenge Software Grant to Scotland County Library
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced Scotland County Library has been awarded a Reading Challenge Software Grant of $350. Reading Challenge Software Grants help public libraries implement the reading challenge/tracker software solution of their choice to provide partial or full online summer reading programs in 2020, as well as other reading challenges throughout the…
Read MoreLocal Students Named to IHCC Spring Honor Roll
Local Students Named to IHCC Spring Honor Roll OTTUMWA, IA – Indian Hills Community College has released the names of the 511 students who were on the college’s academic Honor Roll for the 2019-20 Spring Term. To be included on the Honor Roll an IHCC student must be enrolled fulltime and have a grade point…
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