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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Hannibal Regional celebrated the grand opening of the Healthy Way Fitness Trail expansion, the Healthy Way Nature Trail, on Tuesday, July 11. Located on the west side of the medical campus next to the Emergency Department parking lot, the newest addition to the trail adds just under a half mile to the…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The July/August “Art For The Health Of It” exhibit at the Hannibal Arts Council’s satellite gallery within Blessing Health Hannibal features works by Hannibal artist and educator James Zimmerman. Creating art from age 2, Zimmerman stands firm on the fact that he will always be an artist and will always allow art…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Route 16 in Lewis County is scheduled to close on Monday, July 24, as work begins on the bridge rehabilitation project located over U.S. Route 61, 0.7 mile north of Route P at Canton. A signed detour will be in place to route traffic around the bridge closure. All entrance and exit…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Quincy (Ill.) Bicycle Club and the Goldinger family of Palmyra recently gave a generous gift of more than $5,000 to the Life.Light.Hope Fund at the James E. Cary Cancer Center and the Hannibal Regional Cancer Institute in memory of Charlotte Goldinger. Goldinger was a retired Palmyra school teacher and avid bicyclist…
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PALMYRA, Mo. — The Great River Tigers annual summer bash will be held Saturday, July 22 at Jackson Park Golf Course in Palmyra. A social hour will begin the evening at 5 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 each for a pork loin dinner. Carolyn Henry, dean of the University of…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The upcoming exhibits at the Hannibal Arts Council feature a wide variety of media that will be on display at the Hannibal Arts Council, 105 S. Main, from July 21 through Sept. 9. On display will be: Local artists have submitted works for the “Sanctuary” open show that will feature the work…
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ST. LOUIS — For kids like Sandy Mitchell, Ted Theis and Janet Johnson, childhood in the North St. Louis County suburbs in the 1960s and ‘70s meant days playing along the banks or splashing in the knee-deep waters of Coldwater Creek. They caught turtles and tadpoles, jumped into deep stretches of the creek from rope…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The umbrellas set up over several of the public computers at the Hannibal Free Public Library are not for decoration, instead they are protecting the electronics from dripping water. Buckets sit on the floor to collect water in other areas of the library and when rain is forecasted, the library employees are…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. – Good food, cool cars, and some famous faces will be found in Hannibal starting July 21 and 22. The fourth annual Hannibal Bar-B-Q Festival will be held at 4015 Market and hosted by Heartland Auto Body and Towing. It will be two nights of live music, with Friday night dedicated to rock…
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MONROE CITY, Mo. — California’s Proposition 12, which imposes livestock confinement regulations on farmers around the country who sell to the state, became the law of the land on July 1. Scott Hays is a fifth generation pork producer at Two Mile Pork in Monroe City, and when it comes to livestock, he believes local…
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Hort Report provides information to help you with your garden, flowerbed, yard and other landscaping projects. Readers questions are welcome. Welcome to all the new readers of The Hort Report. Thanks to Bob Gough and David Adam with Muddy River News for giving this opportunity to write for them. I hope all the…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Carolyn Martinez has found a handy way to cut down on food costs. The Pike County woman enrolled in a dehydrating class sponsored by NECAC. It’s just one of many life-skills classes offered by the agency. In a press release, Martinez said, “I’ve got a garden going, and I’m ready to have…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Sodalis Nature Preserve provides a habitat for a variety of animals and several different species of bats. Habitats will be the focus of the night hike at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 14, at Sodalis Nature Preserve. The full night hike program lasts about two hours and follows a two-mile paved trail. Representatives…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Sunday, July 9. is Christmas in July Day at the Hannibal Aquatic Center. Children ages 5-17 who bring in an unwrapped new toy for the Toys for Tots program will get in free at the pool, which is open from 1-6 p.m. Toys for Tots of Northeast Missouri provides toys for about…
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CANTON, Mo. — The Culver-Stockton College Board of Trustees elected H.B. Turner to serve as chairman of the board effective July 1. He will lead a board of 31 trustees, three of whom were newly elected. Turner succeeds Ronald W. Leftwich after 33 years of service to the Board of Trustees, including 14 years as…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to appoint Melissa Cogdal as the Hannibal City Clerk, replacing Angel Zerbonia. The council unanimously voted last month not to retain Zerbonia after an investigation for a hostile work environment. Cogdal has served as the deputy city clerk since June 2022. She took on…
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EWING, Mo. — Chris Chinn, director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, will be the featured speaker at a free Women in Agriculture workshop from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2, at the First Baptist Church of Ewing, 21875 Highway 6. The event is free, and lunch is included. Chinn, a fifth-generation farmer, lives in…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Hannibal Mayor Pro Tem Mike Dobson confirmed Wednesday at the Hannibal City Council meeting he will request for a judge rehear impeachment charges against Third Ward Councilman Stephan Franke. Marion County Associate Judge John J. Jackson granted a motion to dismiss impeachment charges against Franke on June 6, who represents the 3rd…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Although not all the boats were shipshape by the end, all hands were on deck June 24 for the seventh annual cardboard boat races sponsored by Hannibal Parks and Recreation. Each boat contained two passengers in the races that were held at the Hannibal Aquatic Center Jenna McDonald, aquatics director at the…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Caden Friedlein, who has cerebral palsy and wears a cochlear hearing device, anxiously waited his turn to grab a brush and slosh paint on a fence. He beamed as he talked about his favorite activity. Caden waits for the fence painting event all year long. His parents, Shawn and Amy Friedlein, and…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Hannibal’s favorite couple spent their last full day as Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher in Central Park selling raffle tickets to support the future of Tom and Beckys long after they go through the program. Koryn Miller, the 2022-23 Official Becky, and Dallas Nicholson, a Tom Ambassador, stood in the Tom and…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Early Bird Kiwanis Club recently presented Kurt Haner and two students with the Hannibal High School Finance Club with a check for $515 to reimburse the club for the use of a rental car while in Cleveland for the National Finance Challenge. This year’s team came in first place…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Alicia Rollins, an Edward Jones financial advisor in Hannibal, recently received the firm’s Ted Jones Entrepreneurial Award for her exceptional achievement in building client relationships. She was one of 1,442 financial advisors firmwide to receive the award. The award is named after Ted Jones, the son of the firm’s founder. He became…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Admiral Coontz Recreation Center will be closed Tuesday, July 4, to celebrate Independence Day and will reopen at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 5. There will be no senior adult dance. Regular hours for the Admiral Coontz Recreation Center are 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday through Friday with the weekly senior adult dances…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — A Hannibal man was killed Saturday when a tree fell on his camper. The Hannibal Fire Department was dispatched at 9:09 p.m. Saturday, July 1 to 1601 Montana for a report of a large tree that had fallen on a camper. Upon arrival on scene, firefighters found a victim trapped by the fallen…
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