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February 9, 2024 • Volume 5, Issue #6
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• Around Town...... 9B • Churches.......... 10B • Classifieds......... 11B • Food.................. 8B • Fun & Games.... 12B • Pets for Adoption �� 3A • Obituaries........ 11A • School News........ 8A • Features/Voices �� 1B • Weather........... 10A
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Chiefs heading to the Super Bowl on Sunday Exciting model railroading classes offered – SEE PAGE 2A.
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WEEKEND WEATHER: 71 on Friday, but much cooler the rest of the weekend. Chances of rain on Friday evening and Sunday evening... when the low will be 31.
BY K.D. MICHAELS, Staff Writer The Kansas City Chiefs are headed to the Super Bowl this weekend! The Chiefs, with a record of 11-6 this season, will take on the San Francisco 49ers (12-5) in Super Bown LVlll. Since Branson is the Official Vacation Destination of the Kansas City Chiefs, here are a few fun Kansas City Chiefs and Super Bowl facts and figures. • A reported 113.6 million people watched last year’s Super Bowl. It is often the most-watched
televised event of the year. • A 30-second commercial in this year’s Super Bowl comes at a price tag of $7 million. • The Super Bowl will bring approximately $1.1billion in revenue to the city of Las Vegas. • It is the first time Las Vegas has hosted a Super Bowl. • The cheapest ticket to this year’s Super Bowl is $5,477. The average price for a ticket to Sunday’s big game is $9,300.
• Since the Allegiant Station opened in 2020, Kansas City has a 4-0 record at that stadium, while the 49ers have only won one game in Las Vegas. • Kansas City hired Andy Reid as head coach in January 2013. Since that time, the Chiefs have not had a losing season. No other team in the NFL has an active streak of winning seasons for more than five years. • If the Chiefs win, it will be Quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ third Super
Bowl win. That is a feat only accomplished by four other quarterbacks— Tom Brady (seven), Joe Montana (four), Terry Bradshaw (four) and Troy Aikman (three). • Patrick Mahomes will make history this week by becoming the youngest quarterback to start in a fourth Super Bowl. At the age of 28, Mahomes is two years younger than Tom Brady was when he started in his fourth Super Bowl. • The Kansas City Chiefs are now recognized as the
“Most Loved Team in Missouri.” (Sorry, Cardinals!) • Pop mega-star Taylor Swift, girlfriend of Kansas City’s Travis Kelce, has brought about the equivalent of $331.5 million in brand marketing, merchandising and value for the Chiefs and NFL. (What an influencer!). • The last time Kansas City and San Francisco met in a Super Bowl was four years ago, at Super Bowl LlV. Kansas City beat San Francisco 31 to 20. Go, Chiefs!!!
Tax assessment petition continues in Taney County Submitted to Branson Globe A petition to place a property tax assessment freeze on the August ballot in Taney County is nearing the target number of signatures, according to the resident who is spearheading the petition process. Josh Smith said the petition is “very close” to the number of signatures needed, including a contingency allowance for any verification issues that may be encountered prior to the May deadline for certification of the petition for August voting. From his contacts with people working on the issue elsewhere in Missouri, Smith said the property tax question is in various stages in different Missouri counties. The situation in Texas County is somewhat concerning, he said, as a petition there held the required number of signatures but commissioners are not placing the issue on the ballot because of misunderstandings about a resolution that has already been done
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and the commission’s interpretation of language in SB 190. Other counties are also still in the petition process. Some counties have, in fact, adopted their own versions of the property tax assessment freeze, which was included in SB 190 last summer along with other provisions designed to help elderly Missourians on fixed incomes. Some counties’ versions, including neighboring Christian County, use language that limits the freeze to retirees actually receiving Social Security payments, which Smith and others have pointed out is unfair to teachers, railroad workers and others whose retirement plans function as a replacement to Social Security contributions. Smith said there are proposed bills in both the Missouri House and the Missouri Senate to clarify the language of SB 190 to eliminate such discrepancies; he is most hopeful about HB 2482, proposed by Rep. Ben Keathley of St. Louis County. Among SEE PETITION, PAGE 11A
Just a piece of the collection once displayed in the Branson Hall of Fame, now seen at the Song of Hope Museum (Special to Branson Globe)
Song of Hope announces historic collection BY K.D. MICHAELS, Staff Writer A collection of paintings of various Branson Legends that once graced the walls of Branson’s Hall of Fame have a new home. The powerful exhibit is now a part of the Song of Hope Museum. “Since the beginning of the creation of the Song of Hope Museum, we have been cognizant of the fact
that this isn’t the first effort to preserve Branson’s musical history,” explained Marshall Howden, Branson City Alderman and founder of the Song of Hope Museum and movement. “One prominent effort was the Branson Hall of Fame.” Howden, in a Facebook post, continued, “Because of the existence of such a
Hall of Fame in the past, we’ve never attempted to recreate that format. Instead, the mayor and I have opted to celebrate entertainer holidays such as Shoji Tabuchi Day and Mel Tillis Day. Howden recently connected with Richard Maxwell, who operated the Branson Hall of Fame, who
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