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Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 15,591 deer during Missouri’s early youth portion of the 2020 deer hunting season, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. 
 
Top counties were Franklin with youth hunters harvesting 336 deer, Howell with 324, and Osage with 320. The count was as of Monday.
 
In Audrain county, hunters took 145 deer. Ninety of these were antlered bucks, 10 button bucks and 45 does.
 
Last year, youth hunters harvested 18,289 deer during the early youth portion. 

Some are yellowed. 
 
A few are brittle. 
 
That’s not surprising. Some are 130 years old.
 
Some are just about an inch in length. Others measure 18 inches or more.
 
All are part of a historic collection of more than 100,000 newspaper article clippings from The Ledger which eventually be more readily available for people doing local historic research.
 

It’s the same every year. The United Way of Audrain County takes applications from local nonprofits in need of funding. They host a kick off for the organization’s fall fundraising campaign. United Way volunteers – there is only one employee, and she is part time – meet with business owners and local clubs as part of that effort. And every year they set a fundraising goal, in this case $100,000, to be allocated to those local charities.

But this is 2020, a year that has created challenges.

The Audrain County Health Department did not have to look far to find their new boss. Healthcare veteran and long time Mexico resident Craig Brace was named as the new Administrator and CEO of the organization by the ACHD Board of Health.

The announcement was made on Monday.