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Volume 103 • Number 243 • Monday, December 16, 2013 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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Bearcats headed for ’Bama
(KEVIN BIRDSELL/DAILY FORUM) Bearcat fans tear down the goal posts at Bearcat Stadium for the sixth time in the last nine seasons following the Bearcats’ 27-13 semifinal victory over Grand Valley State. The Bearcats will face Lenoir-Rhyne in the Division II National Championship game Dec. 21 in Florence, Ala. See Sports on page 7 for the full story from Maryville Daily Forum Sports Editor Jason Lawrence.
Station owners apply for licenses
Convenience stores under new management By TONY BROWN News Editor
(Stillwater, Okla. Chamber of Commerce) Maryville native Joshua McKim was hired last week to head the non-profit corporation charged with recruiting new business and industry for Nod-
McKim returning as NCED director By JIM FALL
Executive Editor
Maryville native Joshua McKim has been hired as executive director of Nodaway County Economic Development. McKim, 36, a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University who holds a master’s degree in economics from the School of Business at Oklahoma State University, has led economic development programs in Junction City, Kan., and Stillwater, Okla., since leaving Maryville in 2005. Following his graduation from Northwest, he spent a year as an economic development planner for the Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments. For the past year, he has served as president of JAG Solutions Group, an Oklahoma business consulting firm that helped developing companies secure more than $100 million in assistance from local, state and federal agencies, as well as through private funding. Prior to that, he had served for three years as executive director of the Junction City/ Geary County Economic Development Commission and four years as economic development division director for the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce. “I have always loved Maryville,” McKim said Friday morning after finalizing his agreement with NCED. “I have nothing but fond memories from there. See McKim, pg. 3
Two longtime retail locations flanking downtown Maryville to the north and south along Main Street are changing owners. During its past two regular sessions, the Maryville City Council acted to approve liquor license applications for companies representing both the former Finish Line convenience store at 620 North Main and the Shop ‘n’ Hop convenience store at 623 South Main. The transition at Shop ‘n’ Hop, now to be called Jesse’s Last Stop, took place last week, and the store shut down for only a few hours before reopening under new management. The old Finish Line store has been shuttered for months but is scheduled to reopen soon as a Conoco station. According to a report submitted to the council by City Clerk Sheila Smail, Finish Line’s “potential new owner” is AI&D headed by Mohammad Ishfaq and Ejaz Ahmed, both of metropolitan Kansas City. Documents identified the company’s “managing officer” as Richard Bryant. Municipal staff told the council that underground fuel tanks on the property See Licenses, pg. 3
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(TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM) Closed for much of this year, the old Finish Line convenience store at 620 North Main Street, right, is soon to open under new management as a Conoco station. Also changing hands in recent weeks was Shop ‘n’ Hop, a gas station in the 600 block of South Main on the east side of the Halsey Street intersection.
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