Missouri
HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal School District announced several administrative appointments for the upcoming school year in a news release Thursday morning. Michele McCoy was named the district’s new director of curriculum and instruction. She previously served at Hannibal High School (HHS), first as dean of students then most recently as assistant principal. Blake Niemann…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Coyote Hill will be the host of its first pancake breakfast, sponsored by Benson Financial Group, from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday, June 21, at First Christian Church. The event will feature delicious pancakes and sausage and raffle tickets for a variety of raffle baskets. It also will highlight the work the…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Susan Johnson led her final Board of Education meeting as superintendent of the Hannibal School District Wednesday night, capping a 34-year educational career in the district and over a decade as its superintendent. Following the meeting, Johnson described feeling a mix of emotions towards her retirement: fear, for a changing norm; excitement,…
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Women’s health in Missouri is undergoing continuous transformation, influenced by legislative developments, technological progress, and evolving public health priorities. This dynamic landscape is further shaped by longstanding access disparities. These factors collectively shape the quality and availability of care for women across the state, from metropolitan areas to remote rural regions. As the healthcare landscape…
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ST. LOUIS – A Missouri woman on Wednesday admitted stealing her brother’s Social Security disability payments during the decade he spent in prison. Lora Houck, 57, of Kahoka, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to one count of theft of government money. A press release from the Office of the United States Attorney,…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Douglass Community Services recently announced the return of its summer food pogram in Palmyra, designed to ensure that children and youth in the community have continued access to nutritious meals during the summer months. The program will run from June 23 to Aug. 11 with children receiving a weekly food box containing…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Alliance Art Gallery is presenting in June several works by artist Preston Jackson, a world-renowned painter and sculptor. Jackson’s work explores themes of the human condition through the lens of histories and ecologies. The gallery exhibit will feature large canvases paintings of African animals, showcasing their strength, power and beauty as…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Clarity Healthcare mobile clinic is a special vehicle equipped to meet people in need of medical care. Clarity, a federally qualified health center, and Loaves and Fishes, an outreach program that serves hot meals to people in need, have partnered to contact more than 200 unhoused people since March 2024. Cindy Epperson,…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Robert Koehn, 3rd Ward Council Member, brought the issue of fireworks to the floor for the third time at Tuesday night’s Hannibal City Council meeting. “This was a subject that’s come up again … It’s come up twice for discussion and been tabled both times,” Koehn said. “We owe it to the…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The bridge rehabilitation project on the Interstate 72/U.S. 36 Mark Twain Memorial Bridge near Hannibal has been completed, and the bridge is now open and restored to one lane of traffic in each direction. Traffic will continue to be reduced to one lane on eastbound and westbound I-72/U.S. 36 over the bridge,…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Industrial Development Company (HIDC) has approved a $15,000 loan to Jones Machining Company LLC, a precision machine shop based in Palmyra, to help owner Leighton Jones buy additional materials and increase capacity for larger, more complex projects as the business scales to meet growing demand. Jones Machining’s loan was made…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Tree Board’s Tree of the Month for June is an oak tree at 3285 Palmyra Road at the home of Brian Osborn, who planted the tree 35 years ago after buying it in Shelbina. The Tree Board established a Tree of the Month Award to celebrate Hannibal’s beautiful urban forest…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Birthday Blessings is a non-profit organization with headquarters in West Plains. The organization has volunteer teams in Hannibal, Sedalia, Troy and Warsaw. Birthday Blessings provides children in foster care with resources to meet their physical and emotional needs. More than 20,000 children are in foster care in Missouri. Birthday Blessings assists local…
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The calendar says spring, but the weather hasn’t been agreeing with it. We are having cool nights and not normal warm days, along with not enough rain for this time of year. Hopefully these will get better in the coming days. Fighting Codling Moths in your apple trees is easy by making Codling Moth traps.…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — American Legion riders will be participating in a pre-registered American Legion members ride, The American Legion Legacy Run, beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 28. American Legion Post 55 of Hannibal, is seeking sidewalk supporters to wave flags along the route to show support for the 100-150 riders who will be…
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CANTON, Mo. — Culver-Stockton College (C-SC) has appointed Michael Seale as its next provost and vice president for academic affairs, effective July 1. Seale currently serves as assistant vice president of academic affairs at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Ky. “I am particularly interested in Culver’s commitment to the liberal arts,” Seale said in a…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The vision of Harvest Outreach, which began in 2010, is to create a Christ-centered community where people and families facing hunger, addiction and hardship can find restoration, support and a path to lasting recovery. Harvest Outreach provides sober living residences for both women and men, as well as life coaching, job placement,…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Great River Honor Flight board of directors recently announced that the 76th mission will be its first all-women veterans honor flight on June 18–19, leaving from Hannibal. Thirty-seven veterans will participate. Five served during the Vietnam era, 18 during the Gulf War and the remaining 14 served between those conflicts. They…
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