With its championship win at the Central Activities Conference Scholar Bowl, the Scholar Bowl team from Pilot Grove C-4 School proved themselves worthy to play on a national stage. On Friday, April 22, the team will represent their school in a 108-team national competition: National Academic Quiz Tournaments’ Small School National Championship Tournament.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Shots fired at a house party in Pittsburgh early Sunday left two minors dead and at least eight more people wounded, police said. The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m.
For the elite athletes in the WNBA, spending the offseason playing in Russia can mean earning more money than they can make back home — sometimes even two or three times as much. But those who have done that also describe the loneliness of being away from family and friends, of struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, and of living in a place with only a few hours of sunlight in the winter and temperatures well below freezing.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Twitter said Friday that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a “poison pill” defense in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s proposal to buy the company for more than $43 billion and take it private.
The Boonville R-1 Education Foundation is a non-profit corporation governed by a board of directors representing a cross section of the community. According to Foundation President Richelle Kluck, “the Foundation was organized to raise funds to support, foster and promote the growth and well-being of the Boonville R-1 School District.” Founded in 2010, it was organized exclusively for educational purposes to provide supplemental funds for educational and scientific programs or activities for the Boonville R-1 School District.
Dr. Jim Gann opened his final school board meeting on Wednesday April 13.
Over 3,000 eggs were up for grabs at the Kiwanis Club’s Easter Egg hunt on Saturday, April 16. For over a decade, the club has been providing an egg hunt for children up through the second grade.
Americans were in the middle of the Great Depression when they elected Franklin D. Roosevelt president in 1932. Roosevelt was sworn in on Saturday, March 4, 1933, and promised, “I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.” He then set the pace by which every future president would be measured: “the first hundred days.”
Landon Zachary Belstle, a graduating senior at New Franklin R-I High School, has won a $2,000 MFA Foundation scholarship. The scholarship was awarded at the school’s Awards Assembly.
Sedalia, Missouri –April 13, 2022 – The State Fair Community College Theatre Arts program will present the children’s musical “The SpongeBob Musical” at 7 p.m. April 21-23 and April 28-30 and at 2 p.m. April 24 and May 1. A character dinner theatre will be held at 6 p.m. April 23 and 30. Performances will take place in the Stauffacher Theatre on the Sedalia campus.