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Board of Alderman bids to clear Monroe City water plant ponds, a $100,000 job that was skipped for a few years
MONROE CITY, Mo. — The Board of Aldermen on Oct. 22 authorized the city’s water plant operator George Hausdorf to seek bids to remove sludge from the plant’s settling ponds and spread it on farmland, a job estimated at $100,000. The motion allowed People Service to go out for bids on “the sludge removal from…
Community
Six hurt, one flown to hospital, in two-vehicle crash in Shelbyville
SHELBYVILLE, Mo. — A 74-year-old Shelbyville man was seriously injured and flown to a Columbia hospital Saturday after a two-vehicle crash on Missouri Route 15 in Shelbyville that injured six people, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.The crash happened at about 11 a.m. Oct. 24, the Highway Patrol said. A 2006 Ford Focus driven…
Sports
Monroe City Track and Field Tradition Earns Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Honor
By Jason Vance The Monroe City boys track and field program was built on hard work, teamwork and generations of athletes who took pride in wearing the black and gold. That tradition received statewide recognition Oct. 25 when the Panthers were inducted into the 2026 class of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, honoring a…