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Read MoreUnited States Senator Roy Blunt made a stop in Glasgow to inspect river levels Friday afternoon. The river level crested just below 32 feet on October 12. The cutoff between “moderate” and “major” flood stages is 32 feet.
Read MoreThe GFWC Golden Study Club will host its 66th Annual Halloween Parade and Costume Contest on Saturday, October 27th on the Fayette Courthouse lawn.
Read MoreThe Fayette High School marching band won a pair of first place trophies at the Central Methodist University Band Day on Saturday.
Read MoreTwo area men are now in prison after they were sentenced to time in the Missouri Department of Corrections last week.
Read MoreThe Fayette City Council met in regular session Tuesday, Oct. 2 at City Hall. Several guests were present to discuss naming changes, street closures, derelict/vacant housing, and the purchase of a new fire truck.
Read MoreArea Sports
Maybe it was the cold. Maybe it was the wet field. Whatever it was, the Fayette Falcons were held scoreless for an entire half of football. The Falcons (7-1, 6-1 Lewis and Clark) hosted the Salisbury Panthers (1-7, 1-6 Lewis and Clark) at Thomas S. Davis Memorial Field on Oct. 12, winning 32-15. It was…
Read MoreThe 2018 softball season came to and end for the Fayette Lady Falcons (8-10) after an 11-1 loss to the New Bloomfield Lady Wildcats in the quarterfinal round of the Class 2 District 8 tournament on Oct. 9.
Read MoreThe Harrisburg softball Lady Bulldogs (9-13) saw their 2018 softball season come to an end with a 10-1 loss to the Salisbury Lady Panthers in the Class 1 District 7 Tournament semifinals on Oct. 10 in Sturgeon, Missouri.
Read MoreBY MIKE URSERY SPORTS EDITOR Replacing six players in Class 1 softball can be a not so easy task, but it will be expected of New Franklin Lady Bulldogs head coach Ross Dowell in 2018. New Franklin bid farewell to five seniors at the conclusion of the 2017 high school softball season. That sixth…
Read MoreBY MIKE URSERY SPORTS EDITOR The Higbee Lady Tigers have one goal in 2018 — to finish the year with a winning record. Head coach Amy Pottebaum’s Lady Tigers went 2-13 in 2017 with a team that was fairly young and inexperienced. This season, Higbee has seven starters returning, and the team is primed…
Read MoreBY BRANDON BUTLER Rudi Roeslein is the epitome of the American Dream. He was 7-years old when his family immigrated from Austria to the United States. His possessions fit in the backpack he was carrying. Today, Roeslein is a very successful businessman who revolutionized the manufacturing of aluminum cans through his processes of modular engineering.…
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