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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
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Established Sept. 4, 1864 - 157th Year - No. 8
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Twelve Pages COVID-19 58 Active On Monday
County Deaths Now At Seven
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Seniors Emily Owen and Quincy Griffin were crowned the 2020 Trenton High School homecoming queen and king during ceremonies prior to Friday night’s football game with Milan. Pictured are, from left, junior attendants Harley Hall and Connor Crawford, senior attendants Carly Spencer and Canyon VonBurg; king Quincy Griffin and queen Emily Owen; senior attendants Jessa Shipley and Payden McCullough; sophomore attendants Eliana Cowling and Coleman Griffin; and freshmen attendants Kate Clark and Gabe Novak.
Briefs... Flu Shots By Appo ointtmen nt The Grundy County Health Department will be giving adult flu shots by appointment from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2. Consent forms can be downloaded from the GCHD website, www.grundycountyhealth.org, in advance. Persons are asked to call the office at 660-359-4196 to schedule their appointment. Vaccines will be administered curbside on the west side of the health department. Participants are asked to wear a mask. The health department has not yet received its shipment of children's vaccine. Vaccines are currently available for persons age 18 and older, including high dose flu vaccine for those age 65 and older.
Flushin g Wo ork Un nde er Way y Water distribution system flushing is now under way by Trenton Municipal Utilities crews and will continue throughout the month of October. Flushing will be done in the area south of Crowder Road and west of Main Street and crews will continue flushing various areas inside the city limits during the remainder of the month. This is a semi-annual requirement of the water treatment process. TMU Comptroller Rosetta Marsh said there may be some water discoloration during the hours of flushing, which will be from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. It is recommended to run water for a short period of time to make sure it is clear before doing laundry or waiting until after flushing hours. For any questions, persons should contact the water treatment plant at 359-3211. Photo Courtesy of Trenton Middle School
Trenton Middle School Principal Daniel Gott has been chosen as the 2019-20 Northwest Missouri Middle School Principal of the Year by the Missouri Association for Secondary School Principals. Gott was recognized for the honor by students and staff during ceremonies on Friday, receving a plaque from the MASSP, as well as a “#1” plaque and a cash award from staff members. Gott is in his fifth year as principal at TMS. Trenton resident Justin Collins, who is the middle school principal at Gallatin, received the middle school principal of the year honor for first- and second-year administrators.
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Window, Ya ard De eco orating Although the Missouri Day Festival has been officially cancelled for 2020, the traditional window and yard decorating contests will still be taking place. “Missouri Day Western Style,” the original festival theme, will also be used as the theme for both contests, with cash prizes being awarded to the first- and second-place winners. The window decorating contest is being sponsored by Farmers Bank of Northern Missouri while Citizens Bank and Trust is sponsoring the yard decorating contest. The entry deadline for the widow decorating contest is 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 12 while the yard decorating contest deadline is 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15. Entries to either contest can be made by contacting the chamber at 660-359-4324.
There are now seven Grundy County deaths in which COVID-19 have played a role, according to information provided by the Grundy County Health Department. The health department reported that the number of deaths as of Monday increased by five since the last report published by the Republican-Times in its Friday edition. Other Monday numbers show a total of 233 positive COVID cases reported since testing began, with 58 cases currently active. Of those active cases, 47 are listed as probable, meaning the probable cases meet clinical criteria AND epidemiological evidence (close contact with a confirmed or probable case; travel to or residence in an area with sustained, ongoing community spread; or a member of a risk cohort as defined by public health authorities during an outbreak) with no confirmatory lab testing performed for COVID-19. The active numbers reported on Monday (55) are up by five from the numbers reported Thursday (53). Six new cases were added over the weekend. Grundy County has seen its total COVID numbers rise by 205 in just over one month, with only 28 positive cases reported on Aug. 10. There were just four active cases at that time. Grundy County reported its first two positive cases on May 21. Area counties and their totals include Sullivan, 210 (27 See COVID, Page 6
Nominee Faces Senate Hearing
Barrett Could Be Ginsberg Polar Opposite WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett paid homage to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her White House speech Saturday as a shatterer of glass ceilings. She said she would be mindful of the woman whose place she would take on the Supreme Court. She even commented that her children think their father is the better cook, much as Ginsburg used to talk about her husband's prowess in the kitchen. But the replacement of the liberal icon Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court, by Barrett, who would be the fifth, would represent the most dramatic ideological change on the Supreme Court in nearly 30 years and cement conservative dominance of the court for years to come. Barrett, a judge on the federal appeals court based in Chicago, made clear in her Rose Garden address that she looks to conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she once worked, and not Ginsburg, on matters of law. “His judicial philosophy is mine, too. Judges must apply the law as written. Judges are not policy makers,” Barrett said. She was referring to their common method of interpreting laws
and the Constitution based on what they were understood to mean when they were written. Ginsburg, who died this month at age 87, and Scalia were dear friends, but they were on opposite sides of the most divisive issues of the day. Barrett's conservative judicial record, her writings and speeches suggest that she too would be Ginsburg's polar opposite on a range of issues that include abortion and guns. Barrett has cast votes suggesting she would uphold state abortion restrictions that Ginsburg found violated the Constitution. Barrett also favors a more expansive interpretation of gun rights. Ginsburg believed deeply that the Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion. She was a firm opponent of a broad reading of the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms.” The differences don't stop there. Barrett has been critical of Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion upholding the Affordable Care Act, which is again facing a constitutional challenge at the Supreme Court. Ginsburg was one of five votes that saved the law on two prior occasions. If Barrett is confirmed before the Nov. 3 elec-
National Weather Service
Sunny and chilly days are in the forecast this week. We’ll have starry skies at night with lows dipping into the high 30s and low 40s. The high at Trenton on Thursday, Sept. 25 was 81, Friday’s high was 86 and Saturday’s high was 88. The high on Sunday was 74, with a low of 51 and .85 of an inch of rain. The high on Sunday at the Government Weather Station near Spickard was 64, the low was 46, with .49 of an inch of rain.
tion, she would get a chance to weigh in on the latest lawsuit to overturn Obamacare, which is set for arguments a week later. The contrast between Ginsburg and Barrett most resembles the differences between Justice Thurgood Marshall and the man who replaced him in 1991, Justice Clarence Thomas. Marshall was part of the majority in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that declared a nationwide right to abortion. In his first year on the court, Thomas joined a dissenting opinion arguing that Roe should be overturned. Marshall was a firm supporter of affirmative action programs in education and a fervent opponent of the death penalty. Thomas holds opposing views on both issues. The backgrounds of Barrett and Ginsburg also are very different. Barrett is a Catholic from New Orleans. The Brooklyn-born Ginsburg was Jewish. Barrett had the chance to serve as a Supreme Court clerk. Ginsburg was able to secure a clerkship with a lower-court judge only after the intervention of a law school professor. But they both taught at law schools and became appeals court judges in their mid- to late-
40s. The both focused on procedural and technical legal issues in their scholarship. The debate over Barrett's confirmation already is raging, with one focus on gun rights. Ginsburg was not part of the majority in the Supreme Court’s two major gun rights decisions in 2008 and 2010. But the court had been reluctant to take on big new cases involving gun restrictions. Barrett’s ascension to the Supreme Court could give gun rights advocates the vote they need to bring the issue back to the court in the near future. Both her supporters and detractors have pointed to her 2019 dissent in which she argued that federal and Wisconsin laws prohibiting someone convicted of a serious crime from owning a gun should not necessarily apply if the conviction was for a nonviolent crime. The two judges in the majority agreed with Trump administration arguments that the defendant, Rickey Kanter, could not own a gun. Barrett wrote that “while both Wisconsin and the United States have an unquestionably strong in-
What’s Inside... The THS football team took on Milan on Friday night, dropping its homecoming contest to the Wildcats. See page 2 of today’s Republican-Times for a recap of the game played at C.F. Russell Stadium.
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