Thursday, December 7, 2023
Volume 151, No. 49 - Princeton, MO 64673
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PRINCETON TEAMS FALL TO PLATTE VALLEY POWERHOUSES, MERCER GIRLS WIN PAIR
Clark, area win in Chief’s Tavern chili cook-off
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The GRM Networks Board of Directors recently voted to return approximately $3.611 million to its member-owners. Board members, from left: FRONT - vice presideht Kyle Kelso, president Mark Yungeberg, member Gregg Davis and treasurer John McCloud; BACK - secretary Bruce George, assistant secretary Ray Meyer, assistant treasurer Allan Mulnix; and members Tim Lance and Mike Quick.
GRM to return $3.6+ million in credits Member-owners to mailed checks this month Special to the Post-Telegraph
PRINCETON, Mo. The GRM Networks Board of Directors has authorized the return of approximately $3 million in patronage capital credits to its member-owners. This includes approximately $2.4 million paid to members with service in 1999 and $611,000 paid to members with service in 2022. This year, GRM Networks has also returned more than $2.5 million to the estates of deceased members.
Combined, a grand total of more than $5.5 million will be returned to members, or their estates, in 2023. The December 2023 check distribution marks the 35th consecutive year GRM Networks has paid capital credits to member-owners. Since 1989, members of the cooperative have received more than $70 million in patronage capital credits. GRM Networks supports the local economy through its investments in the communities served
such as the payment of local taxes and the employment of more than 100 full-time employees. GRM Networks provides scholarship programs and learning opportunities for area youth, distributes quarterly community improvement grants to local organizations and sponsors numerous community events. The 2023 capital credit checks will be mailed the third week of December. For more information, or to report a change of address, members may contact Elizabeth Polsdofer at 660-748-2470.
Curbing government’s overreach is vital GARRETT HAWKINS Special to the Post-Telegraph JEFFERSON
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“Overreach” is oft used to describe the administrative state in Washington, D.C., and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one such example of our government’s regulatory tentacles. Missourians know this all too well based on past experiences with management of the Missouri River to heighten the libido of the endangered pallid sturgeon. Signed into law in 1973, the ESA was landmark legislation - and still is - depending on one’s experience with it. Environmental activists tout
99% of species protected under the Act have been saved from extinction. The flip side is less than 4% of listed species have actually been recovered and delisted. With each passing year, more species are added to the list, entangling more farmers, landowners, small business owners, and county governments in bureaucratic red tape. Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed whole-county restrictions on the use of Enlist herbicides due to the presence of the threatened American Burying Beetle. This affected Barton, Bates, Cedar, St.
Clair and Vernon counties in west central Missouri, as well as a wide swath of counties from Nebraska to Texas. Missouri Farm Bureau was persistent in working with our congressional delegation and others to get the restrictions lifted after it came to light that the beetle was not even a native species to this region of Missouri. The outlook isn’t as bright in other cases. In response to litigation and a recent court settlement, EPA is developing a draft herbicide strategy detailing how it intends to provide early mitigation for more than 900 listed species and habitats cov-
ered under the ESA. This complex proposal will result in costly regulatory burdens for millions of agricultural producers. Many will be forced to reduce the use of herbicides or prevented from using them altogether. Others will undertake costly counterproductive mitigation measures that will affect the sustainability of their operations. EPA has issued an equally onerous proposal called the Vulnerable Species Pilot Project (VSPP). The draft identifies mitigation measures for 27 federally threat-
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Joe Clark held his winning pot of homemade chili after won the annual Chief’s Tavern chili cookoff on Saturday. The contest raised $417 for the Backpack Buddies program. Special to the Post-Telegraph
PRINCETON Reputation has it that Joe Clark of Princeton makes a mean pot of chili. Reputation became fact Saturday afternoon when he won the annual Chief’s Tavern chili cook-off. The annual chili cook-off, held at Chief’s on the first Saturday of December, has long been an opportunity for participants to pit their best pot of chili against all others. For an entry fee of $10, anyone may enter. The winner will have bragging rights until next year’s contest. The chili cookoff has always been a fundraiser, with various local causes supported. This year, the Backpack Buddies program will be the recipient of the proceeds from the entry fee and the sale of whatever chili the judges don’t eat, and $417 was raised at this year’s event. Backpack Buddies benefits local children. For children that might have need of food to eat over the weekend, the school sends home a backpack filled with “child-friendly and child-accessible” food. “We are very fortunate to partner with the Mercer
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