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Leader of the Month: Shelby Kennemore

Published by admin on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 11:07am

Year in School: Junior.

Parents names: Steve and Sarah Kennemore.

High School Activities: Varsity tennis, varsity soccer and GLOW.

Favorite Food: Chicken.

Favorite Restaurant: Chick-fil-a and Panera Bread.

What is your favorite school memory? Going to sectionals in tennis.

Bulldog of the Month: Amelia Denham

Published by admin on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 10:59am

Year in School: Junior.

Parent’s Names: Chris and Robbin Denham.

High School Activities: FCA, Jazz Band, Band, FFA, Tennis, Track (Manager), ASTRA, Student Council

Favorite Food: Springfield Style Cashew Chicken and Stir Fry

Favorite Music: I have a wide taste in music
 
Favorite Pro Sports Team: St. Louis Cardinals

What is your favorite activities/athletics memory? National FFA Convention and the Band Trip to Disney

Mexico schools use data to adapt in classroom

Published by admin on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 7:47am

At first glance the numbers look dire. Almost three-quarters – 74 percent – of Mexico’s first graders tested in 2020 are reading below grade level. Checking the scores of students enrolled in first through fifth grades, none meet the schools’ end of year expectations.

But numbers, as John Kitchens knows, can tell different stories.

SSM St. Mary's Hospital puts limits on visitation

Published by admin on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 7:44am

On Monday a new set of visitor restrictions went into effect at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Mexico in response to the number of COVID-19 cases locally and across the state.
 
“We have seen an alarming increase in hospitalizations from COVID-19 and a substantial increase in community transmission,” said Mike Baumgartner, regional president of SSM Health in mid-Missouri. “In an effort to keep our patients and staff as safe as possible, we are limiting the number of people coming into the hospitals on a daily basis.”
 

Honoring the fallen

Published by admin on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 7:43am

A line of duty funeral procession makes its way down Clark Street Monday afternoon. The funeral was held in honor of Richard Allen Wright, 61, of Mexico, who passed away on Thursday, Nov. 19, at Hannibal Regional Hospital. Funeral services were Monday at Arnold Funeral Home with Bob Stanford officiating with burial in East Lawn Memorial Park.

Suspect allegedly connected to murder arrested in Las Vegas

Published by admin on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 7:42am

Police in Nevada arrested Timothy S. Midgyett on Saturday for the June 27 murder of Chance Davis in Mexico.

Midgyett was the last outstanding warrant in the fatal home invasion case. On July 31, Quincy, Illinois police arrested Deyton L Curtis-Fisher. On Oct. 8, the US Marshals arrested Sadiq J Moore in Columbia.
On Saturday night, officers with the Las Vegas Police Department stopped a vehicle occupied by Midgyett. He was arrested without incident.

New cannabis dispensary is one of only two now open in central Missouri

Published by admin on Sat, 11/21/2020 - 3:29pm

Green Releaf dispensary’s first sale of THC flower came shortly after 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Owner Jay Patel missed it.

“I wanted to make the first sale, but I had to come out and talk to you guys,” he said with a laugh, referring to The Ledger and KOMU television’s Lauren Schwentker.

His staff were kept busy, however. Patients lined up more than an hour before THC sales began. And there was a steady procession through the doors Wednesday afternoon.

High water leaves marks at library

Published by admin on Sat, 11/21/2020 - 3:27pm

Water, water everywhere.

The line is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and can likely be found in a book at the library. On Wednesday, however, the phrase could be taken literally.

Staff members of the Mexico Audrain County Public Library arrived at the building that morning to find the floors soaked and water spraying from radiators upstairs and down.

“We don’t know what happened,” said Christal Bruner, director of the library district.

Mexico’s Christmas parade canceled, Health Department cautions against gatherings

Published by admin on Sat, 11/21/2020 - 3:23pm

Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce director Dana Keller can only look at what might have been – floats, bands, crowds, Christmas cheer. And with a theme of An All-American Christmas for the parade, she says, “we were trying to include a lot of veterans.”

On Tuesday, however, the Chamber issued a notice that the annual holiday tradition in downtown Mexico had been canceled.

Weather hampers opening weekend of firearms season

Published by admin on Sat, 11/21/2020 - 3:21pm

Deer were scarce on the opening weekend of the November firearms season, at least compared to last year.

Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows that hunters in Missouri harvested 80,525 deer on Nov. 14 and 15. A year ago hunters checked 88,760 deer during opening weekend. In Audrain County, hunters took 636 deer.

Another 173 deer were downed on Monday and early Tuesday around the county.

Top harvest counties for opening weekend were Howell with 1,499 deer harvested, Bollinger with 1,453, and Franklin with 1,446.

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