ARROW ROCK, MO — On Saturday, May 14, Friends of Arrow Rock will host and present a unique event, the Antiques and Decorative Arts Symposium—The World of Folk Art. The Symposium will take place from 10:00 a.m.
Sedalia, Missouri – State Fair Community College’s student art exhibition will open Thursday, April 14 in the Goddard Gallery of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art on the Sedalia campus. Admission is free.
Pastor Christopher Greenhagen, First Baptist Church of Boonville, welcomes more than 75 children and parents to community-wide Easter Egg hunt at Rolling Hills Park on Saturday, April 9. The field was sectioned off by grades and one egg in each section had a WINNER paper in it. The winners of the give-away baskets were: Aiden Potter, preschool; Keaton Green and Alex Derrick, 1st graders; Bailey Briggs and Lucus Stewart, 2nd and 3rd graders; and Vincent Beretta, 5th grader. (Photos by Liz Davis and Heather McKenzie)
The Boonslick Regional Library and Friends of the Library held Connect with Your Library…Connect with Your Community on Saturday, April 9 at the new library learning center on the Kemper Campus. This event focused on honoring local and area first responders.
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri Department of Transportation crews will begin the annual process of striping roadways across mid-Missouri, beginning Monday, April 11. Crews will start on minor routes where paint has faded, or no shoulder lines are in place. The process will then move to major routes, such as interstates and four-lane roadways, later this spring.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A community task force reviewing the death of a Black teenager who was restrained for more than 30 minutes at a Kansas juvenile detention center found that an officer changed his answers on a form that otherwise would have led police to take the teen to a hospital instead of booking him into the detention center.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – April is National Minority Health Month — a time to raise awareness about health disparities that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minority populations. The American Red Cross is reminding blood and platelet donors it’s critically important to maintain a stable blood supply this spring to support those with chronic illnesses and other blood needs in the U.S.
BORODYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — It’s almost Easter in Ukraine, where a trio of churches on the far edges of the capital considered faith, hope and charity on Sunday. In Bucha, shocked into silence by atrocities that left bodies in the streets, about two dozen of the faithful gathered for the service while the exhumation of bodies continued from a mass grave in the churchyard.
One question that the Visitor’s Center and the Chamber of Commerce office hear over and over, is “what’s happening in town?” or “where can we go to find out when events are going on?” To help with these phone calls and to centralize the answer, a joint project between the City of Boonville, the Boonslick Area Chamber of Commerce, Cooper County Public Health, Cooper County Emergency Management, and the Boonslick Community Development Corporation was undertaken. The result was the Boonville and Cooper County Area Community Calendar.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces dug in while Russia lined up more firepower Sunday and tapped a decorated general as war commander ahead of a potentially decisive showdown in eastern Ukraine that experts said could start within days with a full-scale offensive.