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BRIEFS Assistant Principal Hired
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education held a closed session meeting on Tuesday morning. At the meeting the board voted to hire Carolyn Schmidt as the assistant principal at Rissler Elementary School.
Park Board Agenda
The Trenton Park Board will hold a meeting today (Wednesday) at 5:15 p.m. The meeting will be held at the upper shelter house at Moberly Park. Items on the announced agenda include election of officers, and reports from the pool, grounds and facilities committees as well as a report from superintendent David Shockley. The meeting is open to the public.
County Seeking Proposals
Grundy County is seeking formal, qualifications-based sealed proposals from licensed and qualified providers for a turnkey project to provide the county with a new digital simulcast radio network. A mandatory pre-proposal conference is set for Tuesday, July 20 at 10 a.m. at the Grundy County Courthouse. All proposals must be submitted to the Grundy County clerk at the courthouse by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7.
T-C Board OKs Budget
The Tri-County R-7 Board of Education approved its 2021-22 budget during a special meeting held Wednesday. According to information provided by Superintendent David Probasco, the board is anticipating revenues of $3,821,585.06, with expenses projected at $4,008,171.51 for an expected deficit of $186,586.45. That deficit will be offset by the carryover in the 2020-21 budget. The board also approved payment of the remaining bills in the 2020-21 fiscal year and voted to make needed fund transfers. Board members were updated on the status of ongoing capital projects. Proposals for renovation of the old gym were reviewed, with no action taken, and COVID-19 planning was discussed, also with no action taken. The next regular meeting is scheduled for Thursday.
Vaccine Clinic Set For July 15
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FREEDOM CELEBRATED
Downtown Trenton was the place to be on Friday night as the city celebrated Independence Day with a variety of activities. Headlining the event were the Peterson Brothers, at top, YouTube sensations who produce videos to inform people about what they do as farmers and agriculture in general. Other entertainment at the event included axe throwing, above left, and a bounce house, above right. The Independence Day celebration was a free event sponsored by Main Street Trenton, H & B Farms, K4C Premier Cottages LLC, the Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce, American Family Insurance – Cara McClellan Agency, Chula Farmers Co-op, the Trenton Lions Club, Lamma Excavating, Kendall Foster Crop Insurance and Farmers Bank of Northern Missouri.
Flordia Man On The Run Arrested Dale E. Green, who had been liv-
ing at 314 E. Second St., in Laredo, Dale Green, Who a fugitive out of Florida, who Had Been Living In was was convicted of sexual battery by an Laredo, Apprehended adult with a victim under the age of A Florida man who has been living in Laredo for over a year was arrested over the weekend at Walmart in Chillicothe.
12. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Marshal’s Office attempted to apprehend him, but were unsuccessful. The GCSD put out information on Green through its app and a citizen who had seen that infor-
mation spotted Green at the Chillicothe Walmart. Police were contacted and Green was arrested bringing the manhunt to an end. According to information from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Green was originally convicted of his charge in 2011 in Hillsborough, FL. He is currently being held in the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail pending extradition to Florida.
Gov. Parson Floats Incentive Program Under 40% Of Missourians Are Vaccinated JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson's administration floated the idea of a statewide COVID-19 vaccination incentive program and the possibility of a “substantial grand prize” during a meeting of health officials, a newspaper reported. The Kansas City Star said it obtained notes from
a June 25 Zoom meeting of the Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence during which a senior state Department of Health and Senior Services official shared the potential program. The notes from the meeting compiled by the center's secretary said of a potential program: “Will likely start in July. Working with MO state lottery. 3 separate drawing structures.” Consideration of incentives comes as the fastspreading delta variant
ravages rural Missouri. The state has one of the nation’s highest rates of COVID-19 transmission and, according to the CDC, led the nation last week in the proportion of delta variant cases. Less than 40% of Missouri's population has been fully vaccinated and the figure is less than 20% in some rural counties. Asked about incentives this past week, Parson said, “Everything is on the table.” A Parson spokesperson said Friday only that work is continuing on po-
tential incentive options. According to the notes from the June 25 meeting, incentives would involve multiple drawings centered on people vaccinated by certain dates. Educational scholarships for adolescents are also contemplated. “We would be thrilled to see incentives put out by the state,” said Scott Clardy, assistant director of health department in Boone County, who attended the meeting.
The Grundy County Health Department will hold a COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Thursday, July 15 from 2-6 p.m. The clinic will be held at the health department. Appointments are required and can be made by calling the health department at 359-4196. Individuals may also sign up for the clinic online by visiting www.grundychd.org The vaccine at this clinic will be the Pfizer vaccine, which is approved for individual ages 12 and older. The phizer vaccine is a two-dose series with the second dose being given 21 days after the first. The clinic is open to all, and the health dpeartment is encouraging school-age children over 12-years-old to get the vaccine befor school starts back up. According to CDC guidelines, fully vaccinated people do not have to quarantine following exposure if they are not symptomatic. As of now, 25 percent of Grundy County’s population is vaccinated. The county currently has 16 active cases. The total number of cases the county has seen since the onset of the pandemic is 1,252.
Woman Accuses Former Sheriff
BETHANY, Mo. (AP) — A woman has alleged in a civil rights lawsuit that a former northwest Missouri sheriff gave her drugs and sexually assaulted her. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that the claims involve former Harrison County Sheriff Joshua Eckerson. He killed himself last year after a special prosecutor charged him with misdemeanor counts of misuse of official information by a public servant, trespassing and domestic assault. It’s unclear if those charges are related to the lawsuit because the criminal court documents are sealed. The woman is identified only as Jane Doe.
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