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The heads of their class
5/15/2013
Fayette High School’s gym was filled to capacity Friday night to see 52 graduates from the Class of 2013 receive their diplomas.
Following a welcome from superintendent Jim Judd and high school principal Darren Rapert, commencement speaker Jay Jacobs took center stage. Jacobs, a 1988 graduate of Fayette High School, is the managing director for PIMCO, a firm based out of California.
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CMU president, students and faculty honored
5/15/2013
Commencement at Central Methodist University this past Saturday (May 11) was a special one for the more than 300 graduates recognized that day, yet was even more memorable for three of them.
The three were surprised when President Marianne Inman named them recipients of CMU’s highest student honors.
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New Franklin High School graduates celebrate
5/15/2013
Emily Nicole Hendrix and Tyler Gavin White were named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, at the New Franklin High School graduation ceremony held Sunday. Emily’s GPA is 3.94. Tyler’s GPA is 3.73. More pictures of the New Franklin graduation ceremony are on Page 8, along with scholarship recipients.
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Peery concludes 46 years in CMU classroom
5/15/2013
Advances in science and technology come at a staggering pace; it often seems as if the only constant is change. But for science students at Central Methodist University, since 1967 there has been one other constant: Dr. Larry Peery. That constant came to an end with the close of the Spring 2013 semester when Peery, CMU professor of physics, walked away from his Fayette classroom for the final time. Thus ended an almost unheard-of 46 year run, teaching at the same institution.
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Four CMU students graduate from Honors Program
5/15/2013
Four students from Central Methodist University graduated from the CMU Honors Program last Saturday, May 11. The Honors Program is designed to empower students by offering alternative educational opportunities.
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Local athletes perform well at state
5/23/2013
Heading into Saturday’s finals of the Missouri State Track and Field Championships held at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, two area relay teams had legitimate chances at winning state titles. One was trying to defend its title, the other was wanting to finish its season as a winner.
In the end, both relays fell short of their goal. The New Franklin girls 4x100-meter relay claimed a top-three finish in Class 1 for the third straight season, while the Glasgow boys 4x400-meter relay came off a strong preliminary performance Friday to take fourth place in the finals.
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CMU men’s golf places 27th at nationals
5/23/2013
Central Methodist finished the third round of the 62nd annual NAIA Men’s Golf National Championship 27th overall, concluding its first-ever run in the national tournament. The five-member team tallied a three-day score of 652 (330-322-317) at Creekside Golf Course.
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Driftwood Outdoors: MDC stocking Bull Shoals with striped bass
5/23/2013
We are gliding across glass flat water along the rocky shoreline of Norfolk Lake by the light of a crescent moon. Darrell Binkley, a.k.a Bink, owner of Bink’s Fintastic Guide Service points to a hardly noticeable finger of rocks and tells Kevin Eastwold to throw his 6-inch surface plug directly at it. Eastwold obeys and a split second later it sounds as if someone has dropped a bath tub in the lake.
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Jay of all trades
5/22/2013
Jay Thompson graduates from high school on Sunday, and there’s one thing he wants to do before receiving his diploma.
He wants to stand on a podium.
No, it’s not just any podium, and it actually has nothing to do with graduation. This podium is big and white with multiple levels, and during one particular weekend in May, it rests on the infield at Dwight T. Reed Stadium in Jefferson City.
In other words, Thompson wants to medal at the Class 1 State Track and Field Championships this weekend. And he’ll have three chances to receive All-State honors to get to the podium.
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Double trouble
5/22/2013
For the second time this season, Pilot Grove brought in its ace pitcher, Trenton Young, to shut the door on New Franklin.
The junior right-hander got the job done in the teams’ first meeting on March 19, leading Pilot Grove to an extra-inning win to start the season. New Franklin wasn’t about to let the Tigers come away unscathed this time.
With the bases loaded and one out in the fourth inning, Tyler White and Tanner White had back-to-back two-run singles off Young to open the floodgates of a 9-1 New Franklin win in the Class 1 District 10 championship game. It’s the second consecutive district title for the Bulldogs.
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Harold L. Earnest (1931-2013)
5/22/2013
Harold L. Earnest, 81, a pharmacist who for several years owned what had been the old Birkhimer Drug Store on the south side of the Fayette square, died April 13, 2013, in a San Juan, Texas, nursing home.
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Don Bartholomew (1948–2013)
5/22/2013
Well known Armstrong resident Don Bartholomew passed away May 14, 2013, at Moberly Regional Medical Center. He was 64.
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Chester Graves (1953-2013)
5/22/2013
Chester Graves, 59, of Fayette was caught up into glory on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at Harry S. Truman Veterans Hospital in Columbia.
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Larry Gilmore (1960–2013)
5/8/2013
Fayette resident, Larry Gilmore, died suddenly at his home May 4, 2013. He was 52 years of age.
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