July 11, 2024 -- Trenton Republican-Times

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Deputy Sheriff Pay Controversy Studied

Any doubt that there is a lot to consider on the subject of Missouri deputy sheriff pay has more or less evaporated, and the impressions of the community seem to be pretty well baked in to the cake. If one backs the need to enhance deputy salaries, they are firm in that contention. If one believes that budget processes establish approved expenditures for the current budget year, those believing that way are firm in that contention.

Amending budgets already established in the middle of the stream is not an easy task, and any changes that can be made are likely postponed to the next budget cycle.

The facts are these:

Grundy County Deputy Sheriffs, when entering the job, make just over $30,000 a year as compared to Trenton Police officers whose entry pay begins at $45,000 and change. The two current deputies are paid approximately $41,000 and $38,000 each, having received salary bumps over the last few years, and moving laterally across the pay scale with years of experience.

Deputy Sheriffs receive a special “supplemental pay” of $125 monthly and $1,500 annually through state supplemental salary funding.

For the last two years, Sheriff Rodney Herring has [See SHERIFF, Page 2]

Tragedy Strikes A Locally Owned Family Business

On July 8th between 12:30 and 1 a.m. a fire broke out at the Jamesport Country Store resulting in a devestating total loss to the community. Jacob Schrock expressed that he had been by the store between 4 and 5pm on July 7th to do his normal well check. All was well. Mr. Schrock shared that the fire department was timely in their response to the call and fought tirelessly for hours but unfortunately they were unable to save any of the building. There were no reported injuries. According to Mr. Schrock the Jamersport Country Store had planned to open a new store in the future, however, they were still a year pout from that process. He was unsure of exactly what that timeline looks like now but they do intend to rebuild.

TMS Students Crush it at FCCLA Confrence

The 2024 FCCLA National Leadership Conference (NLC) took place in Seattle, WA, from June 29 –July 3, drawing more than 8,000 students, educators, and guests from across the nation. This gathering provided a valuable platform for attendees to expand

their leadership skills, sharpen their talents, explore career pathways, and listen to inspiring speakers.

The highly anticipated Students Taking Action with Recognition (STAR) Events were at the heart of the conference. Over 4,300 FCCLA Members com-

peted in these events, where they were recognized for their proficiency and achievement in chapter and individual projects, leadership skills, and career preparation. The collaboration between youth and adults in managing the [See TMS, Page 12]

Clarification on Airport Hangar Construction

In the past story on the Airport Hangar construction approved by the Trenton City Council, a bit of clarification is required. The Council approved the new construction of 6airplane bays, from options to construct 4, 6, or 8 bays. The total cost for the City will be $112,660 and total build cost of $510,039, the remaining amount being provided by Missouri Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration funds.

The project is a “new build” and not a renovation as previously reported. Finally, it was erroneously reported that Marvin Humphreys cast a “no” vote on the ordinance. In fact, the “no vote” came from Councilman Calvin Brown.

Photo by Becca Giesken

Photo by Becca Giesken

Photo by Craig Mcintosh

Photo by Becca Giesken

BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR — A spectacular detonation at the Trenton Community Fireworks show, sponsored in part by the Trenton Chamber of Commerce July 4. Photo by Kimberly Meeker

THINGS THAT GO BOOM—Spectacular photo of Fireworks July 4 over CF Russell Stadium. The show, conducted by Brad Coursey and Pyrotechnics Productions was a smash. Photo by Brad Coursey

Turner Wagner, Eva Pagel, Alexis Bundridge, and Tony Esquivel, from Trenton Middle School Competed in the National STAR Event Competition at the 2024 FCCLA National Leadership Conference in Seattle, WA, June 29 – July 3, 2024

Photo Submitted by Joy Bridges

requested and received $20,000 in an overtime pay fund to compensate deputies for time beyond their appointed shifts. It is important to note that while deputies receive overtime pay, Sheriff Herring, as an elected official, cannot draw more than the $45,777 annual salary he is currently allotted, despite working 65-85 hour weeks, being on call 24/7 and in the wake of the resignation of his third deputy earlier this year, inserting himself into the deputy patrol schedule and working nights.

Currently short one deputy in the Sheriff’s office, no applications have been received given the current starting salary figure. It should be noted that Trenton Police Department was down at least one officer for an extended period with a starting salary more than 33% that of a starting deputy.

Actual expenditures by budget by the Sheriff’s Department were $414,452 in 2022, $457,131.37 in 2023 and the approved amount for 2024, still underway, was $498,800 as reported by County Clerk Courtney Campbell and District Commissioners. The significant expenditures over time reflect some salary movement, but are more significantly attributed to participation in drug and crime task forces requiring more expense, in addition to other major needs of the department for technology, vehicles, etc.

Overall pay for the Sheriff and Deputies in 2022 was $94,922, in 2023 was

LOCAL

SHERIFF

$116,485.13, and approved expenditures for 2024 were $120,000, approximately $5,000 short of the amount Herring originally proposed in the Sheriff’s budget, the final amount reflecting a “splitting of the difference” between what Herring proposed to the Commissioners, and what they ultimately approved.

It needs to be noted that the current controversy between County Commissioners and Sheriff Herring over the provisions of Bills 53/60, passed in 2021 and signed by the Governor, earmark that County Sheriffs are to make 50% of the salary of the Associate District Judge, in this case up to $81,500 annually effective January 2025. While over 100 of the state’s 114 counties moved ahead on these increases, only to be called on the carpet by the State Auditor’s Office, another complication is that Counties can pay the entire increase at once, or do it in increments of 20% per year over five years.

Sheriff Herring currently contemplate litigation against the county to retrieve that figure over the previous three years of his current term, arguing under the “exceptions” provision of the Missouri State Constitution, which begins by barring pay increases to be enacted during a Sheriff’s elected term, that if the job has added changes, responsibilities, or duties above and beyond State Statute 221 on structure of Sheriff’s departments and County jails, the salary increase can be enacted. In order for that to happen in

the current environment, litigation in court will be required.

Even with the new pay going into effect for Sheriffs in 2025, this does nothing to address the extreme disparities created by such low starting salaries for deputy sheriffs.

While there is no doubt that all of these factors may be confusing, or elicit an emotional response from the public depending on what side of the issue one comes down on, there are some realities.

County commissioners are responsible for the administration of county public safety, roads and bridges, and rural fire and ambulance services. They are the nexus point for each county office(Assessor, Treasurer, Collector, Circuit and Division II Courts, Clerks, and Public Administrator)to present their recommended budget to the commissioners in December and January, going through their requests line by line, with commissioners and office holders essentially negotiating and coming to agreement on expenditures.

Presiding Commissioner Phillip Ray stated that this process was completed with the Sheriff’s Office a year ago, with an initial set of recommendations, time given to review them, and then the Sheriff and Commissioners came to a set amount both sides agreed on.

The approved budget of $498,800 was agreed to by both parties, which both Ray and Sheriff Herring confirmed in phone calls

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Wednesday of last week.

The controversy began to swirl within the last two to three weeks when Herring posted on GCSO social media that the Department was still hiring, had no applications, and that if deputy Sheriff’s salary was an issue to citizens and taxpayers, to speak to their commissioners about it.

The Post dated June 20, 2024 read:

GCSO IS HIRING!

“We are still looking for a full-time Deputy Sheriff for road patrol. GCSO has been short a Deputy Sheriff for two months and has not even had one application, due to Grundy County’s low pay(lowest of the six surrounding counties). Additionally, GCSO also has an opening for a full time male Detention Officer, and has not received any applications for this position either. If this concerns you. You should contact Presiding Commissioner Phil Ray, and district commissioners Don Sager and Brad Chumbleu, and encourage them to increase the salaries of your public safety servants.”

Ray said that Sheriff Herring has been invited to come to Commissioner meetings to discuss his concerns on two occasions since this issue became a public topic of discussion. Herring countered that he had made efforts to do so but had been discouraged by the commissioners who said it “was too early to start the process.”

Ray indicated his willingness to hear the Sheriff out and discuss it in public

forum as he agrees that it is an important concern.

“We meet every Tuesday at 8:00 AM in the Courthouse Commissioners office.”Ray said.”We’re ready to listen.”

Herring’s contention that Grundy County lags behind the six other adjoining counties may have a basis in truth. As recently as late 2022 to early 2023, information the commissioner’s received from other counties on a wage study said that Grundy County paced at 3rd place behind only Mercer and Linn Counties and ahead of the others.

The Commissioners are not in possession of any wage study for the current year to know where the county stands for sure.

Ray noted that while revenues had increased from last year to this year, “an increase in revenues does not necessarily mean that you have an increase in expenditures.”

Entering into the mix in this discussion is where county revenues come from, citing property and use taxes(which the county passed in April, but will not see until June 2025), and how legislation on SB 190, among other things, and an incomplete assessor reevaluation in 2023 may force belt tightening and cuts, rather than increases going forward.

While Herring’s argument that Bill 53/60 significantly increased his job duties over the three years of this term, the commissioners contend that to move ahead with Sheriff’s pay increase suggests that

the arguments for the exception to the Constitution reflected the same kind of non-funded mandates within Herring’s department that the Commissioners face on a larger scale.

Herring, and his lawyer, Brian Bear, representing the Missouri Sheriff’s Association, will argue that the new duties and expenditures of time, effort and scheduling mean that Sheriffs are due the back pay they argue they are owed since the law, and the accountability measures, went into effect.

Even if those issues are solved, starting deputy pay, and lateral movement off those base salaries will need to be addressed in the next budget cycle, which comes just at the end of the 2024 election cycle.

While Herring has no opposition in the 2024 August Primary or November General elections, Commissioners Sager and Chumbley do face opponents in Kevin Ireland and Brian Johnson.

The budget process upcoming presents something to monitor closely in light of the uncertain nature of county funding resources.

While few will disagree with the need for better compensation for peace officers, county commissioners find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Potential discussions between the Sheriff and the Commissioners in advance of the Budget Process would be a healthy movement by both sides in addressing the problem.

Trenton Area Calendar of Events

FRIDAY

Church Women United Thrift Shop, 17th & Harris, noon to 4 p.m. Green Hills Alcoholics Anonymous, Tenth Street Baptist Church, 6 p.m. For more information, call 359-2704. North 65 Center: Line Dancers, 9:30 a.m.; Cards, 12:30 p.m.

Grundy County Health Department, Safe Sitter for Grandparents, GCHD Education Annex, 9 a.m. to noon.

SATURDAY

Church Women United Thrift Shop, 17th & Harris, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Farmers Market, Sesquicentennial Park, 8 a.m. - noon.

Grundy County Museum open 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

SUNDAY

Narcotics Anonymous, St. Philip’s

Episcopal Church, 4 p.m.

Grundy County Museum open 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

MONDAY

Green Hills Alcoholics Anonymous, Tenth Street Baptist Church, 6 p.m. For more information, call 359-2704 or 357-2367.

Grundy County Health Department, WIC Services by appointment, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Free Blood Pressure Check and $1.00 Blood Sugar Checks, walkin, 9 a.m. to noon.

MI Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 2901 Hoover Drive, 7 p.m.

North 65 Center: Line Dancers, 9:30 a.m.; Cards, 12:30 p.m.

TUESDAY

Trenton Lions Club, First Christian Church Fellowship Hall, noon.

Grundy County Health Department, Children’s Immunizations by Appointment, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Nurse Services by appointment, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Spickard Coffee Club, Wise Community Center, 8 a.m.

Domestic Violence/Anger Management Group, North Central Missouri Mental Health Center, 7 to 9 p.m.

North 65 Center: Cards, 12:30 p.m.; Fun Night, 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

Grundy County Health Department, Children’s Immunizations by Appointment, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ; GCHD Board of Trustees, Regular Board Metting Lower Level of Health Department 4:30 p.m.

Green Hills Alcoholics Anonymous,

Tenth Street Baptist Church, noon. For more information, call 359-2704 or 357-2367.

Class of 1959 Lunch at Senior Center at 11:30 a.m.

North 65 Center: Cards, 12:30 p.m. THURSDAY

Trenton Rotary Club, BTC Bank Community Room, noon.

North 65 Center: Cards, 12:30 p.m.; Early Bird Bingo, 6:00 p.m.; Regular Bingo, 6:45 p.m.

Grundy County Health Department, Adult Blood Draw Clinic by appointment, 9 a.m. to noon.

Meet the new Grundy County Jewett Norris Library Director, Sarah Shoberg from 2pm to 4pm on the main floor at the library.

Mr. Everett D. Steinhoff

Mr. Everett D. Steinhoff, 92, a resident of Trenton, Missouri died at 3:58 A.M., Saturday, July 6, 2024 at Indian Hills Nursing Home, Chillicothe, Missouri.

Family visitation will be held from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M., Saturday, July 13, 2024 at Resthaven Mortuary, Trenton, Missouri. Memorials to either Alzheimer’s Association or Diabetes Association and they may be left with the mortuary.

Mr. Steinhoff was born December 27, 1931 at Smithland, Iowa the son of Ralph and Pearl Sulslberger Steinhoff. He was veteran of the Korean Conflict serving in the U.S. Army. He moved to Climbing Hill, Iowa where was employed as a bank teller, then moved to Denver Colorado and operated three gas stations and one boarding home. In 1963 he moved back to Missouri and began selling real estate for United Farm Agency. After doing the real estate he moved to Coffee, Missouri and purchased a farm, from there he moved to north of Trenton and purchase a farm there.

His hobbies included antique automobiles, wood working, reading, spending time with family and friends. He enjoyed going to craft shows where he was great salesman for his son Cliff selling little bails of straw. He especially enjoyed sharing his family accomplishments and loved animals.

He was a member of the South Evans Christian Church, Trenton and also a life member of the Masonic Lodge.

On December 27, 1950 he was married to Violet B. Christopherson at Otto, Iowa.

His survivors include his wife Violet of the home; one daughter Kay Burton, Chillicothe, Missouri; one son Clifford Steinhoff and wife Teresa, Trenton, Missouri; five grandchildren Erik Burton and wife Monica, Lauren Argo and husband Brandon, Trent Steinhoff and wife Rebecca, Camie Steinhoff, Magie Steinhoff; seven great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, three brothers and one son-inlaw Gary Burton.

Mrs. Bette S. Schrock

Mrs. Bette S. Schrock, 82, a resident of Trenton, Missouri died at 12:06 P.M., Saturday, July 6, 2024 at Sunnyview Nursing Home, Trenton, Missouri.

At her request no services were held. She was buried in Edinburg Cemetery, west of Trenton, Missouri. Memorials in her memory maybe to Sunnyview Foundation and left with Slater-Neal Funeral Home, Trenton, Missouri.

Mrs. Schrock was born

May 29, 1942 in Hollywood, California the daughter of Leland and Mary Snidow George.

On November 9, 1972 she was married to Enos Schrock at Jamesport, Missouri. He preceded her in death on October 12, 2012. Her survivors include one daughter Brenda Morris, Trenton, Missouri; three sons James Fredricks, Jr., Maplesville, Alabama, John Fredricks, Chillicothe, Missouri, Travis Schrock, Hugoton, Kansas; one

sister Brenda Williams and husband Todd, Browning, Missouri; eight grandchildren, five great grandchildren, two nieces and one nephew. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and one granddaughter Allie Jordan Fredricks.

Donna Jean (Stice) Gibson

Donna Jean (Stice) Gibson, 81, passed away July 6, 2024, at a Princeton, MO nursing home.

She was born November 22, 1942, at home near LaBelle, MO the daughter of Wilber Wayne and Margaret B. (Chambers) Stice.

On June 10, 1972, she married the love of her life Robert Lee Gibson at the Princeton United Methodist Church by Manning Miller.

Donna graduated from LaBelle High School in 1960. She graduated with a BS at Northwest State University Maryville in 1970. She earned her Master’s degree from Maryville in 1987.

Teaching became her career with Ravanna School, and Putnam County Schools. Retiring in 2009 she ended her 43-year career dedicated to the youth she loved dearly.

Donna enjoyed using her lifelong love of life listening to music, reading, and spending time with friends. The skills her parents taught her as a child helped her to

be hand-in-hand, side-by- side with Bob on the farm which she loved for 50 years. They traveled to all 50 states, Switzerland, and Finland to visit 2 families of the 12 exchange students they hosted in their home.

A member of the Princeton Christian Church Disciples of Christ was a fulfilling joy in her life to prepare for Heaven. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and a niece Melody Rose England.

Survivors include special cousins; Nancy Hallford, Doug, Dale, David, Donald, and Darren Stice.

Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at the Deer Ridge Cemetery north of LaBelle, MO under the direction of Roberson Funeral Home, Princeton, MO.

Memorials may be made to the Deer Ridge Cemetery in care of Roberson Funeral Home PO Box 316 Princeton, MO 64673. Online condolences may be left at www.robersonfuneralhome.com.

PUBLIC NOTICES Because

Grundy County Tax Sale

I, Barbara Harris Collector of Revenue within and for Grundy County, Missouri hereby give notice as provided in Chapter 140 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri for 1986, that I shall offer for sale the hereinafter described lots and lands for delinquent taxes on real estate at the front door of the courthouse on the fourth Monday, the 26rd of August 2024, Grundy County Missouri, commencing at 10:00 a.m. on the said day. (must live in the state of Missouri to bid on tax sale property)

TRENTON TOWNSHIP

11-04-20-01-01-00300 932 Laclede St-Erin & Stephanie Carriker, all pt N 1/3 of blk 14 Fields 3rd add to city of Trenton Desc comm NW cor blk th 84’ th N 66 2/3’, 2021- 530.53, 2022-434.74, 2023- 380.80 total 1346.07

11-05-16-02-10-00200 2324 Prince Rd, Jeffrey Scott & Tamara Corbin, All lots 10 thru 17 in blk 2 of Grossland add to the city of Trenton, 2021- 1517.12, 2022-1312.76, 2023-1146.73 total 3976.61

11-04-17-04-07-00800 1610 Cedar StJulie Crisman, com at the NW cor of lot 4 of the Perry NW add to the city of Trenton th S 50’ th E 100’ th N 50’ th W 100’ to beg see deed, 2021-369.27, 2022-291.05, 2023-255.37 total 915.69 2022-779.70, 2023-681.95 total 2379.45

11-04-17-04-05-00500 107 E 17th StWilliam S Draper, E ½ of lots 43 & 46 in Lockhart add to the city of Trenton, 2021-414.43, 2022-331.31, 2023-290.52 total, 1036.08

11-04-17-04-55-00200 308 W 12th St

– Gregory Drew & Patrica J Todd -the E 33 1/3 of lot 4 nd the W 33 1/3 ft of lot 3 in blk 5 in Merrill’s 1st add to city of Trenton, together with right to use the E 8th ft of the W 33 1/3 of lot 2 in blk 2 in blk 5 in Merrills 1st add to the city of Trenton, 2021-868.90, 2022-736.16, 2023-643.95 total 2249.01

11-05-21-02-49-00500 712 Harris Ave -Bobbie Dunkin & John Smiley, W 61.5’ of lot 7 blk 19 & the N 20 by 615’ of lot 7, 2019- 627.64, 2020-608.64, 2021- 548.82, 2022-451.02, 2023395.01 total 2631.13

11-04-20-01-23-00100 300 W 7th StJames M Hall Lot 1 blk 7 in original town of Trenton see deed, 2021- 664.90, 2022-554.45, 2023- 485.30 total 1704.65

11-05-16-02-26-00400 1802 Pleasant Plain Christopher & Ramah Hancock, lot 14 in blk 1 of Lafferty-Wetzler add to the city of Trenton, 2021- 468.19, 2022379.19, 2023- 332.32 total 1179.70

11-05-16-04-06-00300 1036 Oklahoma Ave, Wesley Knapp, pt of SE ¼ com at pt 435’ W & 168’ N of SE cor on R/W line of old Hwy 65 th N 726’ th W 109.5’ th S to N R/W old Hwy 65th sely to pt directly S of beg, 2021-2378.37, 2022-2079.47, 2023- 1815.71 total 6273.55

11-05-21-01-01-00200 1904 E 10th

St- Leisa Rosha Meinecke, Com at intersection of E line of Kerfoot St and S line of E 10th St th S 135’ th E 200 th N 135’ th W 200 to Beg, 2021-1906.69, 2022- 1659.59, 2023-1449.35 total 5015.63

11-04-17-01-61-01200 1909 Carnes

St-Jade Mock- All of the E ½ of lot 8 exc 10 ft off the W side for an alley in the extension of northwestern add to the e W side for an alley in the extension of northwestern add to city of Trenton, 2021-368.00, 2022-289.95, 2023 total 912.35

11-04-17-04-38-01100 1203 Merrill

St -Jade M. Mock, The S 72 of the E 90 of lot 4 of Central add to the city of Trenton, 2021- 401.02, 2022-319.36, 2023280.06 total 1000.44

11-04-17-04-60-00200 413 W 10th St

- Earl & V Rebecca Nance, Com in SW cor of Lot 1 in Central add th N 100’ th E 75’ th, 2021-649.02, 2022-540.26, 2023-472.93 total 1662.21

11-05-16-02-04-00400 1109 E 24th St, Michael Travis Curtis O’Conner All lots 1 thru 4 in blk 4 of the Grossland add to city of Trenton, 2021-366.82, 2022-288.88, 2023-253.47 total 909.17

11-04-17-04-36-00600 1312 Gilmore St-Richard Powers, Com 115’N of SW cor of lot 17 of the Merrill Div in part to the city of Trenton, th 105’ th e 90’ th W 90’ to pob, 2021-313.07, 2022-240.99, 2023-211.66 total 765.72 11-04-20-0132-00100 515 Monroe St- Ane Hafoka ,Lupe Otukolo, all of the N or NE ½ of lots 3 & 4 in blk 35 of the original survey of town now city Trenton desc as com at NE corner of said lot 4 th in a NW direction 100 ft th SW 50 ft, 2021431.53, 2022-346.54, 303.80 total 1081.87

11-06-14-00-05-01401 2100 Fisherman Rd-Leisa Rorebeck, All of lot 28 in unit 3 of Paynes Lake of Trenton. 20212918.97, 2022-2562.40, 2023- 2238.27 total 7719.64

11-04-17-04-38-00300 418 W 13th St-Randall Harry Rummerfield &Marti Gayle Doolin, all that part of lot 4 Peery’s Central add to the city of Trenton, desc as com at a pt 150’ E & 200’ N in the SW cor of lot 4 of Central add th E 120’ th S 90’ th W 60” th N 15’ th W 60 th N 75’, 2021- 598.94, 2022495.69, 2023- 434.02 total 1528.65

11-04-17-04-37-00500 503 W 12 StRonald Silkwood - all the E ½ of blk 3 exc N 90’ there of the Wiggin-Murphy add to the city of Trenton, 2019- 379.95, 2020-371.51, 2021- 337.47, 2022262.74, 2023- 230.68 total 1582.35

11-04-17-01-68-00300 2008 Lulu StJohn R. Smiley- All lot 6 in Holt S 3rd addn to the city of Trenton, 2021-416.90, 2022-333.50, 2023-292.41 total 1042.81

11-04-17-01-37-00300 103 E 23rd StJames W. Smith c/o Kristina Missey, All lot 7 & 8 in blk 12 in Holt S 4th addn to the city of Trenton, 2021-745.52, 2022626.25, 2023-548.01 total 1919.78

11-04-20-01-30-00300 506 Grundy St- James Wayne Smith c/o Kristina Missey, All L 2 in blk 37 of original town of Trenton, 2021-602.59, 2022498.91, 2023-436.85 total 1538.35

11-04-20-01-15-00400 140 E 8th St –Misty Miller Smith & Domanich Ratkovich, W ½ of lot 11 & all lot 12 in blk 13 of the original town of Trenton, 2021-843.31, 2022-713.36, 2023-624.01 total 2180.68

11-04-17-01-48-00400 405 E 22nd St, Chris Stanturf, E 71 of lot 1 E 71 of lot 2 in blk 2 in Holts 4th addn to city of Trenton, 2021-627.00, 2022-520.66, 2023-455.83 total 1603.49

11-04-17-01-63-00102 2007 Chestnut St -Ida Tunnell c/o Misty Degroot, S 50 E 77.5 Lots 1-3 in blk 13 of Holts 1st add to the city of Trenton, 2021- 403.49, 2022-321.53, 2023- 281.98 toal 1007.00

11-04-18-00-00-01901 13142 W Crowder Ct Jamie Wattenbarger, The S 50 ft of lot 2 & & the N 10 ft of lot 4 of the Iceland Lake, 2021-255.04, 2022189.87, 2023-167.10 total 613.01

11-04-17-03-24-00101 506 W

Crowder Rd-Lyle K. Wheelbarger, all that part of lot 19 merrills Div in part of Trenton com 272 1/2 ‘ E of the NW corner th S 239 ½’ the E 90’ 10” th W 90’ 10” pob, 2021-679.57, 2022-567.51, 2023-496.69 total 1743.77

11-04-17-03-24-00500 610 W

Crowder- John R. Woodland, all that part of lot 19 of Merrill’s Division in partition to the city of Trenton Mo desc as com at the NW corner of said lot 19 running th E 90 ft 10” thence S 155 ft th W 90 ft 10” th N 155 ft to the POB, 2021562.30, 2022- 463.03, 2023-405.51 total

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1430.84

11-05-16-04-08-00200 1110 Rural StJohn R Woodland, all lots 12 in blk 1 of the Grandview addn to the city of Trenton, 2021-433.99, 2022-348.72, 2023305.70 total 1088.41

11-05-16-03-01-00501 1103 E 17th St-John Rian Woodland- Tract land in NE ¼ of SW ¼ sec 16 in the city of Trenton being pt outlot #32 desc comm pt 37’ E & 100 S cor said NE ¼ of said NE ¼ of SW ¼, 2021-2289.74, 20222000.62, 2023-1746.90 total 6037.26

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP

03-05-21-01-05-00300 Spickard .02 acres-Gloria J Coffman, pt of lot 4 25 x 30 in original town of Spickard blk 3, 2021- 70.92, 2022-25.52, 2023- 23.50 total 119.94

03-05-22-02-14-00200 4th st- Gloria Jean Coffman, W ½ of blk 4 & strip of land 10’ wide off W side of E ½ of blk 4 in Stapps 3rd addn to the town of Spickard, 2021- 106.22, 2022-57.44, 202351.26 total 214.92

03-05-21-04-04-00300 211 S 2nd StCody Odor; Rachel Pratt, a tract of land 70’ N & sly 70’ E & W in SW cor of lot 3 & all of S 70’ of lot 4 in Spickard 1st add to town of Spickard, 2021-294.18, 2022-227.54, 2023-199.14 total 720.86

03-05-22-02-17-00200 204 N 6th StJudith Richmond- all of the S ½ of blk 4 in Cook King & Keith S addn to city of Spickardsville, 2021- 801.95, 2022687.07, 2023- 598.66 total 2087.68

03-05-21-01-11-00600 Spickard- Judith Richmond, Comm 128’ S of SE cor of blk 7 original town of Spickard th W 63’ th Swly along 230’ approx. S 93’ E 200’ N 236’ to pob, 2021-107.49, 202258.60, 2023-52.27 total 218.66

03-05-22-02-24-00100 6th st – Judith Richmond, all the N ½ of blk 5 in C.K & K addn to the city of Spickardsville 2021- 140.11, 2022-88.14, 2023- 77.96 total 306.21

03-05-22-02-24-00200 6th St- Judith Richmond, all the W ½ of the S ½ of blk 5 in C.K & K addn to the town of Spickardsville, 2021- 70.92, 2022-25.52, 2023- 23.50 total 119.94

03-05-22-03-07-00200 3rd & Madison St-Todd McDowell- E ½ of lot 1 blk 8 in Stapps 1st add to Spickardsville Mo, 2020- 1480.21, 2021-1326.71, 20221161.94, 2023- 1011.54 total 4980.40

03-05-22-03-07-00500 212 3rd St –Todd McDowell- all of lot 3 in blk 8 of Stapps 1st addn to the city of Spickardsville, 2020-72.48, 2021-70.92, 202225.52, 2023-23.50 total 192.42

03-05-22-02-07-00700 506 N 8th StTodd McDowell All that part of blk 1 of Ragan & Dennis addn to the city of Spickard comm at SW cor th N 120’ th E 200’ th S 120’ th W 200’ to POB, 2021-106.22, 2022- 57.44, 2023-51.26 total 214.92

WILSON TOWNSHIP

15-01-11-04-17-00400 303 W Main St.- Jennifer Courtney, Lot 11, 12, in blk 24 in the Milwaukee 3rd addn to the city of Laredo, 2021-865.52, 2022-726.55, 2023-599.43 total 2191.50

15-01-11-04-17-00200 315 W Main –George & Rebecca Covey, lots 7 & 8 in blk 24 of the Milwaukee 3rd addn to the city of Laredo, 2021-333.92, 2022257.32, 2023-213.48 total 804.72

15-01-11-04-22-00301 202 E Main St – Shelby Marie Eckert- lots 10, 11 &12 blk 10 in Village of Gorham now city of Laredo, 2020-357.90, 2021-318.84, 2022-244.01, 2023-202.54 total 1123.29

15-01-11-04-35-00200 208 E 3rd St,Galen & Carol French, W ½ of lot 2 & E 37.5 of lot 3 in blk 13 of the original town of Laredo, 2021-1035.76, 2022876.80, 2023-723.01 total 2635.57

15-06-14-01-12-00100 Laredo- Richard D SR & Tonja A Gardner, all of lots 1 thur 4 in blk 1 of the J. M. Stone 4th add to the city of Laredo, 2021-201.37, 2022-140.33, 2023-117.25 total 458.95 15-06-14-01-12-00400 Laredo -Richard D. JR & Tonja A Gardner, the N 26’ of lots 9 thru 12 in blk 1 of the J. M. Stone 4th add to the city of Laredo, 2021- 70.32, 2022-24.64, 2023- 22.11 total 117.07

15-01-11-04-11-00300 215 W 2nd St – Joe A Howe SR & Joseph Howe c/o Travis & Billie Constant, Lot 7 thru 10 in blk 22 in the Milwaukee 2nd add to city of Laredo, 2021291.74, 2022-220.08, 2023- 182.85 total 694.67 15-01-11-04-07-00300 301 N 3rd Ave – Norma Lovell; Timothy Hampton, all of lot 4, 5 & 6 in blk 6 of McClelland and Ogle’s 1st addn to the Village of Gorham now city of Laredo, 2021-309.80, 2022-236.04, 2023-195.98 total 741.82

15-06-14-01-06-00200 302 S 2nd Ave- Kyle Meek c/o Tammy Frame, lots 4,5,6 in blk 1 of the J.M. Stone 2nd add to the city of Laredo, 2021-223.93, 2022-160.23, 2023-133.63 total 517.79

15-06-13-02-00-00300 314 S 3rd StMisty Lynn Miller c/o Zachary Lee, all part NW ¼ of NW ¼ sec 13 desc comm 400 ‘ S 33’ E of NW cor 40 AC tract th S 50’ th E 202’ more or less to R/W th N 100’ th W 200’ to pub rd th S 50’ to POB, 2021-17.87, 2022-26.00, 202323.22 total 121.09

15-01-12-03-07-00400 302 N 3rd Ave – Gary Reed, all of lots 7 & 8 in blk 7 in McClelland- Ogles 1st addn to the Village of Gorham now city of Laredo, 2021-249.57, 2022-182.86, 2023-152.24 total 584.67

15-01-11-04-02-00100 Laredo- Lester & Debbie Riddle, Lots 1 Thru 6 in blk 4 of the McClelland- Ogle 2nd add to city of Laredo, 2021-74.88, 2022-28.66, 2023-25.42 total 128.96

15-01-11-04-02-00200 Laredo- Lester & Debbie Riddle, all of lots 9 thru 12 in blk 4 of the McClelland Ogle 2nd add to the city of Laredo, 2021-70.32, 202224.64, 2023-22.11 total 117.07

15-01-11-04-03-00100 Laredo- Lester & Debbie Riddle, all of lots 1 thru 6 in blk 3 of the McCleland Ogle 2nd add to city of Laredo, 2021-70.32, 2022- 24.64, 2023-22.11 total 117.07

15-01-11-04-03-00200 516 N 3rd Ave- Lester & Debbie Riddle, all of lots 7 thru 12 in blk 3 of the McClellandOgle 2nd add to the city of Laredo, 2021-794.81, 2022-664.13, 2023-548.07 total 2007.01

15-01-12-03-07-00100 Laredo- John & Paula Turdo, lots 3 & 4 in blk 7 of the McClelland- Ogle 1st addn to city of Laredo, 2021-71.87, 2022-26.00, 202323.22 total 121.09

15-01-12-03-07-00500 312 E 1st–John & Paula Turdo, lots 5 & 6 in blk 7 of the McClelland-Ogle 1st add to the city of Laredo, 2021-844.45, 2022707.94, 2023-584.12 total 2136.51

LINCOLN TOWNSHIP

06-06-14-00-00-00101 Tindall-Sarah A. Schroder, 10 rods wide off N end of W ½ NW ¼ NE ¼ sec 14 & the S 2 rods wide of the N end of W ½ NW ¼ NE ¼, 2021-66.59, 2022-21.44, 2023-19.96 total 107.99

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

08-09-32-01-07-00200 207 NW Border St -James & Frances Davidson, all that pt of the SW ¼ of the SE ¼ of the NE ¼ of 32-62- 22 com at the SW corner of said tract th N 38 rds 13 ft th to E line of said tract S 38rds 13 ft to POB, 20201586.95, 2021-1422.13, 2022-1217.82, 2023- 1054.23 total 5281.13

CLASSIFIEDS

PUBLIC NOTICES Because The People Must

08-08-33-02-04-00300 408 N Main

St- Judi Hein & Steve Switlik, all lots 7 & 8 in blk 12 of Brassfield 4th add to the town of Galt, 2021-212.23, 2022149.89, 2023-130.96 total 493.08

08-08-33-02-06-00100 311 N MainJames Thomas & Casey Joy Lea, all of lots 1 & 2 in blk 10 of Brassfields 4th add to town of Galt, 2019-591.69, 2020546.81, 2021-494.11, 2022- 398.70, 2023-346.08 total 2377.39

08-09-32-04-05-00300 Galt- Douglas Yarbrough; Toni Yarbrough, all pt NE ¼ SE ¼ sec 32 in city Galt comm SW cor of Whans add th W 159’2 ½” along pub rd th N 102 ½’ th E 159’ ½ to NW cor lot 7 blk 1 th S 102 ½’ to pob , 2021149.74,2022-94.73, 2023- 83.27 total 327.74

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP

MADISON TOWNSHIP

LEISURE LAKE

Agriculture

See Consumer Oil & Supply for your One Stop Shop for Muck and Lacrosse boots and gloves. Consumer Oil & Supply 614 Harris Ave. 359-2258

Buying standing walnut, oak & cottonwood timber. Cash or on shares. Call

UNIT 1

12-02-04-03-07-45700 Lots 274 & 275 – Denise Gilbertson, 2021-2222.05, 2022-1936.24, 2023- 1691.11 total 5849.40

12-02-04-03-07-46201 Lot 268 -Donald Savage, 2021-66.53, 2022-21.35, 2023-19.91 total 107.79

12-02-04-03-07-46300 Lot 267 -Donald E Savage, 2021-66.53, 2022-21.35, 2023-19.91 total 107.79

12-02-04-03-07-46700 Lot 261, 262, 263 – Donald E Savage, 2021-1346.11, 2022-1158.09, 2023- 1012.00 total 3516.20

12-02-04-03-09-37500 Lot 55 – Howard I Smith JR,2021-66.53, 2022-21.35, 2023-19.91 total 107.79

UNIT 2

12-03-05-04-01-00200 Lot 532 –Robert Reed JR & Amanda Odom, 2020- 67.55, 2021-66.53, 2022- 21.35, 2023-19.91 total 175.34 UNIT 3

Mike at 816-248-3091

Gravel, sand, top soil, mulch, river rock, boulders-Turney Mini Quarry 816-248-2523.

For Sale: One grass fed beef. Sold by hanging weight. Call 66o-645-2269

PAYING $75/ACRE FOR

RENTAL PASTURE. Will consider any size and location. 816-288-9060.

For Rent

Sunnyview Apartments is taking applications for single & double apartments. Sunnyview is a residential care facility for the elderly. We provide qualified staff

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF GRUNDY COUNTY, MISSOURI BOKF, N.A., ) Plaintiff, ) ) Cause No. 24AG-CC00013 vs. ) )

Debbie S. Gaddy a/k/a Debbie S. ) Gaddy Wright a/k/a Debra Sue ) Wright (Deceased), ) Michael E. Wright, and ) John Doe ) Defendants. )

NOTICE OF ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION

The State of Missouri to Defendants, Debbie S. Gaddy a/k/a Debbie S. Gaddy Wright a/k/a Debra Sue Wright (Deceased) and John Doe:

You are hereby notified that an action has been commenced against you in the Circuit Court for Grundy County, State of Missouri, the object and general nature of which is to Quiet Title as to the property secured by a Deed of Trust dated March 24, 1997, and which action affects the following described property to wit:

ALL OF THE SOUTH FORTY (40) FEET OF LOT FIVE (5) AND THE NORTH THIRTY (30) FEET OF LOT SIX (6), IN BLOCK ONE (1) IN HOFFMAN AND HEIMAN’S SECOND ADDITION TO THE CITY OF TRENTON, MISSOURI. SUBJECT TO ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ROADS AND EASEMENTS.

The names of all parties to said action are stated above in the caption hereof and the name and address of the attorney for the Plaintiff is Scott D. Mosier, Millsap & Singer, LLC, 612 Spirit Dr., St. Louis, MO 63005, (636) 5370110.

You are further notified that, unless you file an answer or other pleading or shall otherwise appear and defend against the aforesaid petition within forty-five (45) days after the 20 th day of June, 2024, judgment by default will be rendered against you.

Witness my hand and the seal of the Circuit Court this 11 th day of June, 2024.

/s/ Becky Stanturf, Circuit Clerk (6/20, 6/27, 7/4, 7/11/24)

12-02-04-03-11-11300 Lot 223 -Neil W & Ellen J Carter, 2019-62.53, 202067.55, 2021-66.53, 2022- 21.35, 202319.91 total 237.87

12-02-04-03-04-23700 Lot 12 &13, Linda Jones & Betty Bell, 2021-76.69, 2022-30.40, 2023-27.82 total 134.91

12-02-04-03-01-13700 LOT 163 –Ron Penick, 2020-67.55, 2021-66.53, 2022-21.35, 2023-19.91 total 175.34

12-02-04-03-01-03300 Lot 41 -Mark Romesburg, 2021-66.53, 2022-21.35, 2023-19.91 total 107.79

12-02-04-03-01-03400 Lot 40 – Mark Romesburg, 2021-66.53, 2022-21.35, 2023-19.91 total 107.79

UNIT

4

12-03-05-04-02-13500 Lot 32- Doug Eckard, 2019- 85.02, 2020-89.03, 202185.72, 2022-38.40, 2023- 34.79 total 332.96

12-03-05-04-02-14100 Lot 26 –James D King, 2020-67.55, 2021-66.53,

to administer medications, provide three meals a day and offer minimal assistance with the activities of daily living. Now accepting Medicaid. For more information contact Cassandra Brewer at 660-359-5647.

Real Estate

FOR SALE: Home in Spickard, MO. 3 bed 1 bath. Has older two car garage. No heat or air. Older move in ready home. No title Insurance. Serious inquires only. Please call 660-748-3339

For Sale Garden Headquarters! Garden seeds, assorted garden tools, best prices in town. Trenton Hardware,

Know

2022-21.35, 2022-19.91 total 175.34

12-03-05-04-02-13300 Lot 34 – Aca F. McDonald, 2021-66.53, 2022-21.35, 2023-19.91 total 107.79

12-03-05-04-02-16000 Lot 3 – Kimberlee A Moore & Kris Kane, 202166.53, 2022-21.35, 2023-19.91 total 107.79

12-03-05-04-02-16100 All of lot 2Kimberlee A. Moore & Kris Kane, 2021- 95.84, 2022-47.39, 2023- 42.64 total 185.87

I, Barbara Harris, Collector, Grundy County, State of Missouri, do hereby certify that foregoing is true and correct list of lands and lots that will be offered for sale as above set forth.

Date this 7th day of July 2024 Barbara Harris. Collector Grundy County, Missouri

901 Main, Trenton. 660359-3660.

FOR SALE: WHIRLPOOL DRYER. 8-YEARS OLD, IN GREAT CONDITION. $175. Has steam, and all the bells and whistles. Call 816-500-1876.

FOR SALE - 1985 Clipper 42 A Seed Cleaner. Completely mobile, has extra motors and augers. Chemical tank attached as well. Needs to go to a farm instead of sitting in the shed. Used to be Williams Seed Cleaning. Call/text for questions or pictures. (660) 214-4272.

Help Wanted

Sunnyview Nursing Home has job openings available

for the following positions: RN, LPN, CNA, Dietary and Level I Medication Aide. Please fill out a job application at 1311 East 28th Street, Trenton, MO 64683. E.O.E.

North Central Missouri College is seeking a Residential Life Coordinator/Assistant Women's Softball Coach. This is a full-time position with benefits included. Interested applicants should visit www.ncmissouri. edu/jobs for more information and how to apply or call 660-357-6203. NCMC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Help Wanted: Home Visitor, Caldwell County Head

CLASSIFIEDS

PUBLIC NOTICES Because The People Must Know

We are ready to replace your old gutters with new seamless aluminum gutters! MOORE’S CONSTRUCTION & WOODWORK, INC. 660-359-5477

Agriculture

See Consumer Oil & Supply for your One Stop Shop for Muck and Lacrosse boots and gloves. Consumer Oil & Supply 614 Harris Ave. 359-2258

Buying standing walnut, oak & cottonwood timber. Cash or on shares. Call Mike at 816-248-3091

Gravel, sand, top soil, mulch, river rock, boulders-Turney Mini Quarry 816-248-2523.

For Sale: One grass fed beef. Sold by hanging weight. Call 66o-645-2269

PAYING $75/ACRE FOR RENTAL PASTURE. Will consider any size and location. 816-288-9060.

For Rent

Sunnyview Apartments is taking applications for single & double apartments. Sunnyview is a residential care facility for the elderly. We provide qualified staff to administer medications, provide three meals a day and offer minimal assistance with the activities of daily living. Now accepting Medicaid. For more information contact Cassandra Brewer at 660-359-5647.

Real Estate

FOR SALE: Home in Spickard, MO. 3 bed 1 bath. Has older two car garage. No heat or air. Older move in ready home. No title Insurance. Serious inquires only. Please call 660-748-3339

For Sale

Garden Headquarters! Garden seeds, assorted garden tools, best prices in town. Trenton Hardware, 901 Main, Trenton. 660359-3660.

FOR SALE: WHIRLPOOL DRYER. 8-YEARS OLD, IN GREAT CONDITION. $175. Has steam, and all the bells and whistles. Call 816-500-1876.

FOR SALE - 1985 Clipper

42 A Seed Cleaner. Completely mobile, has extra motors and augers. Chemical tank attached as well. Needs to go to a farm instead of sitting in the shed. Used to be Williams Seed Cleaning. Call/text for questions or pictures. (660) 214-4272.

Red Barn Mini Storage Across from the new hospital on Iowa Blvd in Trenton, MO 5 UNIT SIZES AVAILABLE Call: Mike or Jane Cooksey 660-359-7683

Help Wanted Sunnyview Nursing Home has job openings available for the following positions: RN, LPN, CNA, Dietary and Level I Medication Aide. Please fill out a job application at 1311 East 28th Street, Trenton, MO 64683. E.O.E.

North Central Missouri College is seeking a Residential Life Coordinator/Assistant Women's Softball Coach. This is a full-time position with benefits included. Interested applicants should visit www.ncmissouri. edu/jobs for more information and how to apply or call 660-357-6203. NCMC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Help Wanted: Home Visitor, Caldwell County Head Start. This position is responsible for planning home-based learning experiences that focus on promoting high-quality early learning in the home. Full-Time with the following benefits: 4-day work week, Dental/Health /Life, insurance, Retirement, LifeFlight, Sick Leave. Paid tuition to NCMC This position is responsible for the supervision of center staff and volunteers. As well as planning, monitoring, and managing the facility ™s daily program, social services, and family engagement activities. Visit http://www.greenhillsheadstart.org for job description and application or call 660-359-2214. E.O.I.

North Central Missouri College is seeking a Nursing Instructor. This is a full-time position with benefits included. Interested applicants should visit www.ncmissouri.edu/jobs for more information and how to apply or call 660357-6203. NCMC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer

Services

*SEAMLESS GUTTERING* We are ready to replace your old gutters with new seamless aluminum gutters! MOORE’S CONSTRUCTION & WOODWORK, INC. 359-5477. 52 Years Experience.

WANTED!! Used & Abused Cars & Trucks, Highest prices paid! You Call - We Come Get It!

GRM Networks Awards $3,750 in Community Improvement Grants

GRM Networks awarded a total of $3,750 as part of the company’s Community Improvement Grant program. Organizations receiving funding in the first semiannual distribution for calendar year 2024 are Decatur County Public Health

of Leon, Iowa; the Stacy Multipurpose Center of Princeton, Missouri; the Harrison County Council on Aging of Bethany, Missouri, and the Mercer County Food Pantry of Princeton, Missouri. Decatur County Public

Health was awarded a $1,000 grant to be used to purchase backpacks and school supplies for Decatur County students who need assistance. Decatur County Public Health is partnering with the Leon Police Department and the Decatur

County Sheriff’s office to distribute the backpacks and school supplies during their National Night Out event in August.

Applications for the next distribution of grants are being accepted now through November 1. Grant amounts vary, with a minimum of $500 and a maximum of $1,500 awarded to successful applicants.

The Cooperative’s Board of Directors will review applications and award grant amounts. Applications may be downloaded by visiting grm.net/about-us/grants/. Questions regarding grant applications should be directed to Amy Davison at 888-748-2110 or adavison@corp.grm.net.

For more than 70 years, GRM Networks has been

providing powerful and innovative communications solutions to customers in the rolling green hills of Northern Missouri and Southern Iowa while delivering an exceptional customer experience. As a member-owned cooperative, GRM Networks, and its subsidiaries, LTC Networks and SCC Networks, deliver essential fiber-tothe-premise technology to people, businesses, educational institutions, hospitals, municipalities and civic organizations in a 4,500 square mile area.

Headquartered in Princeton, Missouri, GRM Networks is committed to promoting and investing in the communities it serves. For more information about GRM Networks, visit grm.net.

Amy Ray, GRM Networks Customer Service Representative, pictured above right, presented the grant to Decatur County Public Health Parent Educator Jamie Patterson, left, and Decatur County. Public Health Administrator Holly Rash, center. Submitted Photo

The Harrison County Council on Aging received a $1,000 grant to purchase new siding and windows for the senior center in Bethany. GRM Networks Combination Technician Clay Rinehart presented the check to Harrison County Council on Aging Administrator Tammy Lane. Submitted Photo

GRM Networks Customer Service Representative Donna Lutzen, pictured above right, presented a $1,000 check to the Stacy Multipurpose Center represented by Linda Hague, treasurer. The money will be used to purchase new pool covers which will help maintain the pool’s temperature as well as help keep the pool’s water from evaporating. Submitted Photo

The Mercer County Food Pantry received a $750 grant. The Food Pantry will use their grant to purchase platform truck carts and wagons for curbside deliveries. GRM Networks Customer Service Representative Lucretia Coon presented the check. Pictured above on the front row, left to right, are Volunteer Linda Moore, Co-President Joann Moore, Coon, and Board Member Debbie Lankford. On the back row, left to right, are Treasurer Danny Shew, Volunteer Nancy Delameter, Secretary Marsha Hobbs, and Board Members Marsha Shew and Jimmie Rogers. Submitted Photo

Galt’s 911 system site is now complete with the cabinet and all of the equipment in place.

Photo by Mark McLaughlin

Photo by Mark McLaughlin

LOCAL

LAREDO NEWS

Kari and Jeff Blessinger and children, Lane and Logan of Johnstown, CO, were guests in the home of Larry and Mona Loyd on June 28-30.

Bonna and Brian Dittberner went to Kansas City, KS, on Friday, June 28. They stayed overnight to attend a baby shower for Bonna’s granddaughter, BriAnna Tovi, which was held on Saturday. Barb Harbo, Bonna’s daughter of Eagan, MN, drove down to join the family at the baby shower.

Denise and Junior Hamilton of Tindall came to visit Bill and Kathy

Waits on Sunday afternoon, June 30. On Monday afternoon, visitors to the Waits were Patty Murrell and grandson, Bo Missy. On Wednesday, Bill and Kathy babysat grandkids in the morning. In the afternoon Patty Murrell and daughter, Kristy Missy and her son Bo, and a friend, Joe, all of Laclede, stopped by to visit.

Dan and Carol Wilford drove to Sullivan County Courthouse in Milan on July 4 to join others to pray around the flagpole 10:00. Plans were made to have the event inside the courthouse due to rain, but it stopped rain-

Laredo School Board

The Laredo R-Vii School Board met in regular session July 8, 2024.

After the agenda and consent agenda were approved, the Board approved minutes of the previous meeting and paid bills.

In Old Business, building improvements initiated at least month’s meeting were further discussed.

In New Business, the Board set a Tax Rate hearing for Monday, August 12 at 6:00 PM, followed by the Board meeting.

The Board improved the student/faculty handbook

for 2024-25 and the emergency management plan for next year, concluding with the approval of the substitute list.

Discussion was given to the 2024-25 budget, summer maintenance updates, and the upcoming school audit scheduled for August 7. The MSIP 6 and CSIP plans were also further discussed.

The Board adjourned into executive session to discuss personnel, then reemerged from closed session to adjourn at 6:52 PM.

Chalk Talk

by Mark McLaughlin R-T Staff Writer

The Jig is Up

By Mark McLaughlin R-T Staff Writer StaffWriter@Republican-Times.com

Last week’s column was actually a few days ahead of everyone in media finally processing the impact of Joe Biden’s withering loss in the debate with Donald Trump. What the mainstream media had to absorb is that their kid gloves treatment of Biden for four years and clearly partisan activist opposition to Trump was exposed. The people knew they were complicit in the cover-up. And they were angry about it..

In response, partly to save their own skin, they have come with the long knives for Joe Biden, pressing he and Press Secretary Karinne Jean Piere with question after question after question about the President’s condition, when he will step down, all in an effort…now widely and warily viewed by many Americans, to make us believe that they were just as conned as we were.

Fox news reports it as the “Biden Cover-Up” and it has been characterized as the “greatest political scandal in modern American History” And the scandal has three parts:

1—Joe Biden is not up to the job, not for four more years, not for four more months, not for four more days.

2—The second part of the scandal… who is actually running the country? This is not just a rhetorical question… If it’s not Joe, and we know it can’t be, who is it? Senior Staff? Barack Obama?

None of them swore the Presidential oath. None of their actions are mandated by the Constitution.

The country is leaderless, and so the Constitutional crisis that no one has really talked about yet, so consumed with whether or not Biden will go past the Democratic Na-

ing at exactly 10:00, so the singing, devotion and praying were all done outdoors. Following the prayer event, the Wilford’s visited some of their church members, then went to Casey’s to buy food for lunch. Then, seeing a Farmer’s Market sign, they drove to the Methodist Church where several produce and baked goods were being sold under a canopy. They bought an almost white cucumber from a farmer, some monster cookies from Avery Sayer, then went to their own church basement to enjoy their lunch.

Trenton City Council

Meets 2nd & 4th Monday of Every Month At 7 p.m. 1101 Main St. 660-359-2013 • 660-359-4310

www.trentonmo.com

Mayor City Clerk Jackie Soptic Cindy Simpson

City Administrator/Utility Director Ron Urton

First Ward

Second Ward

William Fisher Calvin Brown Glen Briggs Marvin Humphreys

Third Ward

Fourth Ward

Timothy Meinecke Duane Urich David Mlika John Dolan

OPINION

tional Convention as the Democrats nominee, is not the greatest issue.

it is clear that Biden doesn’t have the mental acuity to make split second decisions, to think critically, to demonstrate “executive functioning” to show any deftness whatsoever, and he hasn’t from the very beginning.

The country has been on autopilot for four years. It is frightening, it’s illegal, and it’s criminal. When we get to the bottom of it, someone is going to jail. The 25th Amendment isn’t an option, it’s an imperative.

3—What I consider to be truly a secondary issue is the “fine mess” Democrats are in right now. In 2016, 2020 and 2024, Democrat oligarchs intervened at critical points in competitive primaries for their party members, twice kneecapping a surging Bernie Sanders, first for Hillary Clinton, and in 2020, anointing Biden before Sanders could take the nomination.

This year, they didn’t allow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to have a fair shot, didn’t allow him to debate Biden, and forced him into a 3rd party run.

The pickle they are in now with an incapacitated President and an only slightly more functional choice in Vice President Kamala Harris is their own problem, their own fault, and if I were a rank and file party Democrat, I would begin at the caucus level and throw out every crooked party boss all the way up the food chain and restore a fair process to their party

I actually feel sorry for Democrats, and how badly they have been served by their iconic leaders, the Obamas, the Clintons, Pelosi, Schumer, and how horribly they have steered the ship of state over the cliff up to now.

Karma stinks…

And waiting on the other side is Donald John Trump. The same mainstream media that lied to you for four years that Biden was a human dynamo has told you for eight years that Trump wants to be a dictator, that he wants to weaponize the justice system against Democrats, that he wants to build internment camps, that he wants to suspend the Constitution.

That he is a threat to “Our Democracy”.

Trump is as sharp as ever. He has mostly sat quietly for the last ten days while Biden self-destructed and he never took the bait during the debate to react emotionally and lash out against Biden, who did a masterful job of sinking his own ship.

For those in media and politics who warn you up and down about the chaos associated with Donald Trump, keep in mind that it was they that brought the chaos, they that

Deputy Sheriff Pay Controversy

The Grundy County Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, July 2 at the Grundy County Courthouse.

Presiding Commissioner Phillip Ray and Associate Commissioner Brad Chumbley were present. Associate Commissioner Don Sager was absent. Gerald Wilson of the Myers Township Board visited the Commissioners to thank them for the work done in their township, specifically, replacing bridges and tubes that needed work that had been completed. Wilson also informed the Commissioners of tubes that need replaced on NE 100th Avenue and two on 115th Street.

Ray said that a drainage study was needed with the USDA Office to see if bigger tubes needed to be put in. He added that NE 100th Street has a tube that needs some fill put in. He is wanting to get 115th Street opened back up and once the tubes get replaced he has talked to all landowners and they have all agreed to go cut brush as soon as they can gain access. They are also trying to get the roads back into shape to get the water off the roads.

The commissioners signed paperwork on BRORO40(29) bridge 04900141. Ray signed a change order for $36,438.00 and signed invoice number 10 for $93,534.40.

Ambulance Director Matt Walker brought in an operations report and discussed this with the commissioners.

Ray reported that progress had been made on organizing road and bridge work schedules and noted again that Township Boards need to call in to the Courthouse, the County Clerk’s Office or directly into the Commissioners phone number to identify and point out work that needs to be done.

Ray said the way road and bridge jobs have been done over time is being more tightly organized with work schedules and lists of tasks to be done in different areas. This means that if tubes need to be taken to different areas around the county, this can be done all in one day a week, effectively pre-staging the materials and equipment needed to make the work of the Road and Bridge Crew more efficient.

stirred the pot, they who are trying to put him in jail, and the same career government people who will try to slowwalk the policies he puts back into place in January of 2025.

If they believe the way they came at him the last time will work this time, I’ver got news for them.

He isn’t the same guy who came to Washington in January 2017.

He knows the players this time, the levers to pull, the people to tap who can get the job done. He won’t blunder into the same traps that he did the first time around.

He knows who can be trusted in Washington(a very small group), and who can’t. And for all the pearl clutching you hear about how he plans to come after the people who came after him…the revenge and retribution part, keep this in mind.

The ability of Democrats to envision the nightmare of Avenging Angel Donald Trump only see this in their minds eye because they did every bit of what they fear he will do to them, to him, for the last eight years.

They wrote the book on Revenge and Retribution, they attacked the “Democratic norms” they squeal about now. Hoaxes. Made up criminal charges. Extortions. Threats against people around him. FBI raids with “lethal force” authorizations in place.

To this point, Democrats are the only ones who have taken these extra-constitutional steps.

If Trump responded in kind, who could blame him? I couldn’t, but I don’t think he will do that.

People will get fired in the administrative state. Career guys will be sent packing. Those working against the President from within will be rooted out and displaced. And if there are people who need to be prosecuted for their actions against him, the overhauled Justice Department should pursue them.

Without fear, or favor.

Democrats will have absolutely no choice but to tear their leadership processes and practices out by the roots. A fair process needs to be enshrined in party rules. Anyone in Dem Land with a story to tell needs to have a fair shot…If not, party members cannot trust that party ever again.

The media will have to remember that they are reporters, not activists, unless they want the people they need to watch them and justify the advertising dollars, to shut off the TV set and go get their information elsewhere. The American people have seen behind the curtain. They know the truth. And they won’t be fooled again.

OPINION

THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT

George Washington, Ceaser or Cincinnatus

By Mark McLaughlin StaffWriter@Republican-Times.com

(Part eight of an eight part series)

George Washington’s military acumen helped to win the Revolutionary War. His presence, stature, and reputation “calmed the stormy sea” of the Philadelphia Convention. His Presidency was the most important of all time, because it laid down not just the rules for how Article II on the Executive would work in practice, but it set precedent after precedent after precedent in how the job was to be done.

There was a remarkable dichotomy within Washington — On the one hand, Washington took leadership position after leadership position, almost always reluctantly, almost always in doubt of his own abilities and gravitas for the job, always some reticence about who might have been able to do it better. On the other hand, his performance almost always resulted in lasting, impactful, humble success and service to his countrymen.

Washington could have been king. But he wanted to be a farmer.

In all of the history of the world, only twice can historians say that a leader who could have had almost absolute power passed on it.

Washington could have been Julius Caesar, but instead, chose to be Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.

For the sake of history, Cincinnatus was a Roman General in the time of the Republic who had retired from service, and went home to farm. But the Rome of the 430’s BC was in trouble, it was under attack and it was a mess.

The Roman Senate sent a delegation to Cincinnatus farm and begged him to return to Rome, take on the title of absolute dictator, and to fix the things broken in Rome.

Cincinnatus did his duty, fixed the internal problems and dealt with the external ones. While legend said he did this in 16days, historians say it was more like a year.

The Senate asked him to stay on, but he

willingly stepped down and away from power, by choice. He couldn’t get back to the farm fast enough.

Julius Caesar was the most skilled general in an array of Roman military leaders at the end of the Republic period. In a “competition” with rival Roman general Pompeii, who had taken up residence in the city, Caesar was sent to the far reaches of the Republic to fight Rome’s far flung enemies, which he took down one after another.

But a crisis emerged as Caesar vanquished all enemies on the field and returned home. The excitement grew in the city and fear among the Senators that Caesar wouldn’t just disband his army when he got home, but that he would use it to overthrow the Senate and engage Pompeii’s army in civil war.

Caesar arrived within sight of the City and sent a messenger that he was going to enter the city.

And without a shot being fired(obviously a metaphor), Caesar marched into Rome, Pompeii fled, and the Roman Republic died.

One man, Cincinnatus, saw his leadership as duty. Another man, Caesar saw his leadership as an opportunity to feed his ambition. One went back to the farm, and the other died on the steps of the Forum, murdered by his friends and close associates, who did so because, as Brutas said, “Caesar was an ambitious man.”

With the War over in 1783, Washington gave his farewell to his troops. He had brushed away and slapped down attempts to make him king by vowing any man “who mouthed the words” that Washington should be king would be summarily hanged.

He took the path of Cincinnatus. He had served his country, and done his duty, and it was time to go back to his farm, back to Martha, back to his family, his horses, and the beloved English foxhounds he raised and kenneled at Mt. Vernon.

Four years down the line, he would be called to chair the Philadelphia Conven-

tion, and as said in this series previously, he saw his responsibility to the country to be on “overwatch” of the process of writing the Constitution.

He didn’t offer much one way or the other, but when the process became unruly, he could rise to his full six foot two inch height and “glare like no other man alive… ” as Hamilton remembered it.

He allowed others to do the hard work. Madison was a good, close friend with whom he had a falling out in the late stages. Hamilton was like an adopted son to him. The others who emerged in that time took their cues from a glance, or a gesture, and a new government was born.

As President, Washington strode carefully, mindful that if the American Experiment was to last, that every decision he made, everything he did would be under a microscope. For something no one had ever attempted before, the Constitution required a Cincinnatus, not a Caesar.

It was noted in the press at the time that when Washington concluded his inaugural address, he left Federal Hall in New York without a hat…just like almost every other person there.

He didn’t receive or wear a crown. No one bowed in front of him. No one swore him their lives or allegiance.

He was one of them. Just a man, but what a man.

One could go through all Washington did to assure that the Republic would start on the right foot, but that is for your own research.

When Washington gave his final address as President, he declared his intentions to go back to Mt. Vernon and farm. He gave up power willingly. He assured a peaceful transition of power.

He could have stayed for the rest of his life if he wanted and no one would have batted an eye.

But, as Washington emphasized, he was not an emperor, he was one of them. He was just a man.

But, My God, what a man.

The next President in line, John Adams,

was an unfortunate successor…Adams was 5’4”, pudgy, had very few teeth, and was doomed to fail for one reason. He wasn’t George Washington.

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe could all be said to have been great Presidents as those who had been in Washington’s circle, or in two or three degrees of separation, to have been influenced by those that were.

When John Quincy Adams became President, it could honestly be said that the “towers” of the Revolution, the Founders and the Framers had passed from the earth. The Presidents 6 through 15 could be said to have been either capable or totally incompetent, and number 15…James Buchanan echoed another Roman figure whose neglect and horrible decision-making made the Civil War a certainty.

Nero.

Buchanan was said to have loved the violin. And in his feckless weakness, his only positive contribution was to set the stage for Abraham Lincoln to become President.

Washington would return home, and in just over a year would die at the age of 67 from pneumonia contracted as he rode the fence rows of Mt. Vernon in snow and freezing rain.

But he died in what western enthusiasts would refer to as “the cowboy way”.

On the farm, on the horse, loving his wife, kids and grandkids.

It was said of Washington that his “constancy” and “consistency” were the “force of nature” that kept the country from going off the tracks at its birth.

It is said that Washington was indispensable.

It is because of him, perhaps foremost in his quiet, humble, deep integrity, that the American Experiment has survived 248years, a Civil War, two world wars and a Great Depression.

He could have been Caesar, but he was Cincinnatus … truly a man who was 1 of 1.

events and evaluating participants allowed students to develop real-world skills and gain valuable insights.

STAR Events are pivotal in supporting student development by enhancing their classroom experience and guiding them toward successful career pathways. With more than 30 events to choose from, participants had the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities by actively addressing essential issues concerning families, careers, or communities. By researching the topic and implementing projects to advocate for positive change, students acquired valuable skills and industry insights needed to thrive in the 21st century.

We are thrilled to share that Alexis Bundridge, Tony Esquivel, Eva Pagel, and Turner Wagner, from Trenton Middle School

Friday, July 12th

BBQ Riblet on Bun, Stewed Tomatoes, Pork & Beans, Fruit Juice

Monday, July 15th

Chicken Salad on Croissant, Potato Sticks, Carrots & Celery, Mandarin Oranges

Tuesday July 16th

Pork Chop, Fried Cabbage, Cauliflower, Applesauce, Homemade Bread

Wednesday July 17th

Meatloaf, Au Gratin Potatoes, Wax Beans, Mixed fruit, Wheat Bread

Thursday July 18th

Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce, Corn, Lettuce Salad, Rosy Pears, Garlic Stick

Friday July 19th Hot Ham & Cheese on

FCCLA proudly represented TMS at the FCCLA National Leadership Conference in Seattle, WA. They competed in the following STAR Events. Alexis Bundridge competed in Entrepreneurship and scored a silver rating placing 9th in the nation. Tony Esquivel competed in Teach or Train and scored silver placing 5th in the nation. Eva Pagel competed in Fashion Construction and scored silver placing 16th in the nation. Finally, Turner Wagner competed in the Interior Design event and scored gold placing 2nd in the nation.

The students' project, their dedication, creativity, and commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of others. Their accomplishment at the national level is a testament to their hard work, teamwork, and unwavering passion.

Bun, Vegetable Pasta Salad, Broccoli w/Cheese, Watermelon

Monday July 22nd

Sloppy Joe on Bun, Baked Beans, Lettuce Salad, Strawberries

Tuesday July 23rd

Beef Tater Tot Casserole, Wax Beans, Diced Tomatoes, Mango, Wheat Bread

Wednesday July 24th

Western Omelet, Ham Slice, Hash Brown Potatoes, Mandarin Oranges, English Muffin

Thursday July 25th

Chicken Livers or Strips, Mashed Potato/Gravy, Green Beans, Rosy Applesauce, Biscuit

Commissioners Hear from Myers Township in Regular Session Advertising

The Grundy County Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, July 2 at the Grundy County Courthouse.

Presiding Commissioner Phillip Ray and Associate Commissioner Brad Chumbley were present. Associate Commissioner Don Sager was absent.

Gerald Wilson of the Myers Township Board visited the Commissioners to thank them for the work done in their township, specifically, replacing bridges and tubes that needed work that had been completed. Wilson also informed the Commissioners of tubes that need replaced on NE 100th Avenue and two on 115th Street.

Ray said that a drainage study was needed with the USDA Office to see if bigger tubes needed to be

put in. He added that NE 100th Street has a tube that needs some fill put in.

He is wanting to get 115th Street opened back up and once the tubes get replaced he has talked to all landowners and they have all agreed to go cut brush as soon as they can gain access. They are also trying to get the roads back into shape to get the water off the roads.

The commissioners signed paperwork on BRORO40(29) bridge 04900141. Ray signed a change order for $36,438.00 and signed invoice number 10 for $93,534.40.

Ambulance Director Matt Walker brought in an operations report and discussed this with the commissioners.

Ray reported that pro-

gress had been made on organizing road and bridge work schedules and noted again that Township Boards need to call in to the Courthouse, the County Clerk’s Office or directly into the Commissioners phone number to identify and point out work that needs to be done.

Ray said the way road and bridge jobs have been done over time is being more tightly organized with work schedules and lists of tasks to be done in different areas. This means that if tubes need to be taken to different areas around the county, this can be done all in one day a week, effectively pre-staging the materials and equipment needed to make the work of the Road and Bridge Crew more efficient.

Trenton Named Recipient of FEMA Assistance

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) named the City of Trenton as a recipient OF a Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities non-financial Direct Technical Assistance team planning process, according to Trenton Mayor Jackie Soptic.

170 communities across the country submitted ap-

plications to this program, which will provide a team of FEMA staff to work with the city to help address “natural disaster vulnerabilities”, such as electrical generation breakdowns in times of extreme cold, heat, flooding, severe weather or drought.

Mayor Soptic filed the City’s application as a proactive step to gain this

support for the city.

Receipt of this team’s assistance will be important in making recommendations on identified potential problems, and help in applying for federal funding to address the findings.

A number of criteria go into the identification of communities eligible for this assistance, including

defined “Economically Disadvantaged Rural Communities”, (EDRC’s) and communities with multiple major disaster declarations in the past seven years. FEMA has assigned Kirsty Morgan, FEMA BRIC DTA Program Lead, to head up Trenton’s assistance team.

Back to school vaccines provided by Grundy County Health Department.

The Grundy County Health Department reminds parents that now is the time to schedule backto-school vaccines for their children. Vaccines are required for children between 4 and 6 years of age, and for students entering 8th grade and 12th grade.

The GCHD offers vaccinations each Tuesday

and Wednesday by appointment. Most insurance companies cover the cost of vaccines. Please bring the child’s insurance card to their appointment. Vaccine is also available at no charge for uninsured or underinsured children.

Children who are between 4 and 6 years of age are required to receive the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus

and pertussis, IPV (polio), MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), and Varicella (chickenpox) vaccines.

Students entering 8th grade this fall should receive their Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) and the MCV4 (4 strains of meningitis) vaccines.

Students going into the 12th grade should receive the MCV4 (4 strains of meningitis) vaccine. If you are unsure what vaccines your child should receive, if you have questions, or if you would like to schedule an appointment, please contact the Grundy County Health Department at 660-3594196.

ACROSS

1. Letter of the Greek alphabet 4. Cause to become entangled 10. Swiss river 11. Conversation 12. “Magnum” was one 14. Small integer 15. Christmas 16. Of a specific mountain region 18. Burrowing bugs 22. Of a symbol worthy of veneration 23. A type of syndrome 24. Cephalopod mollusks

26. Metric ton

27. Ornamental box

28. As quickly as can be done

30. “Hoop Dreams”

subject Arthur

31. Old TV part

34. Extinct flightless birds

36. Former CIA

37. Successor 39. Archaic form of you

40. Within 41. Danny Hurley’s alma mater

42. Not sacred or biblical

48. Written law

50. Popular hairstyle

51. Congressman 52. Type of font

53. A predetermined period in office

54. Pouch

55. Hormone that stimulates ovulation (abbr.)

56. One from a particular Asian region 58. One’s sense of selfesteem

59. Headgear used to control a horse

60. The habitat of wild animals DOWN 1. A right conferred through legal means

2. American island state 3. Inflexibly entrenched 4. “Pollock” actor Harris

5. Foolish person 6. Follows a particular Chairman 7. Choose 8. Sunrooms

9. One hundred grams (abbr.)

12. A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

13. South American hummingbird 17. “Girl Chopping Onions” painter 19. Wild dog 20. Units of land 21. Footwear

25. Possessing a constant temperature 29. Hormone that promotes water retention (abbr.)

31. Popular game 32. Pension (German)

33. Giant of industry

35. Inferred

38. One who revolves

41. Kept possession of 43. Loss of electricity

44. Stoppered bottle

45. Everything 46. First to walk on the moon

47. Engrave

49. Female organs

56. Equal to 1,024 bytes (abbr.)

57. Northeast

Daily Commuter Puzzle by Jacqueline E. Mathews

Garfield® by Jim Davis

Alley Oop® by Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon

For Better or For Worse® by Lynn Johnson

Frank & Ernest® by Bob Thaves

The Born Loser® by Art and Chip Sansom

Shoe® by Jeff MacNelly

In City of Trenton vs. Robert A. Aguiniga, charged with exceeding speed limit, expired plates and operating a motor vehicle on highway without valid or no license, the defendant entered guilty pleas and paid $70.50 on the first count, the second and third counts were continued until July 16 in order to give the defendant more time to pay.

In City of Trenton vs. Crystal Ann Blake, charged with expired plates, the defendant entered a guilty plea and paid a fine of $70.50 plus court costs.

In City of Trenton vs. Sonya Nichole, charged with Failure to Yield, the defendant failed to appear. A Show Cause Summons was issued by the judge, demanding the defendant appear back in court on August 16, 2024.

In City of Trenton vs. Jordan Robert Conner, charged with expired plates, a guilty plea was entered. The defendant was ordered to pay a fine of $50.50 plus court costs.

In City of Trenton vs. Jennifer Lynn Curtis, charged with separate counts of Animal License, Animal at Large, the case was continued until July 16, 2024 at the request of the defendant.

In City of Trenton vs. Nicholas Robert Rex Day, charged with a Nuisance Vio-

June 24, 2024

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lation, the defendant appeared in court, and was given a continuance until July 16, 2024 to complete necessary work on the property.

In City of Trenton vs. Megan Elizabeth Dunlap, charged with expired plates, a guilty plea was received. The defendant failed to appear. A warrant was issued for her arrest, and a bond of $114.00 will be required upon apprehension.

In City of Trenton vs. Terry Michael Delauder, charged with expired plates, the defendant failed to appear. A warrant was issued for his arrest with bond set at $89.00 upon apprehension.

In City of Trenton vs. Laurie Beth Eads, charged with expired plates, a guilty plea was entered and the defendant paid a fine of $50.50 plus court costs.

In City of Trenton vs. Amber Marie Gray, charged with separate counts of animal at large(2 counts), lack of an animal license(2-counts), the defendant pled guilty on the first count and was fined $50.50 and court costs, pled guilty on count 2, paying $50.50 in fines and courts costs, pled guilty and was fined $50.50 and court costs on count 3, and pled guilty and paid fines of $50.50 and court costs on count four.

In City of Trenton vs. Nichole Christine Adel, charged with expired plates, the de-

Land Transfers

Andrew Gannon and Wife to Jacob Marriott et al

June 27, 2024

Leroy Huffstutter and wife to Diane Muller Trust

Shawn McCullough and wife to Payden McCullough and wife

Shane Holloway et al to Hau Moeakiola and wife

July 1, 2024

Kasey Bailey and wife to John Sellers and wife

Larry Dannar and wife to Jerry Trump and wife

Harp Holdings LLC to North Central Missouri Mental Health LLC

Kevin Wyatt and Wife to Bright Futures of Trenton

fendant pled guilty and was ordered to pay fees and fines totalling $89.50.

In City of Trenton vs. Nicholas A. Jeannoutot, charged with a liquor violation, guilty plea was previously entered and the defendant appeared in court and paid the remainder of fines and fees in the amount of $388.50 to the court.

In City of Trenton vs. Virginia Lynn Johnson, charged with a liquor violation, the defendant entered a guilty plea and was ordered to pay fines and court costs of $500.00.

In City of Trenton vs. Frenado Elea Lopez, charged with a liquor violation, the defendant pled guilty and paid $538.50 in fines and court costs in open court.

In City of Trenton vs. Jennifer Lynn Neff, charged with expired plates, displaying a fake driver’s license, and operating a motor vehicle without maintaining financial responsibility, the defendant appeared in court. The defendant’s case was continued to August 6, 2024 at the defendant’s request.

In City of Trenton vs,. Amanda Rae Nida, charged with exceeding posted speed limit(16-19 mph. over), the defendant pled guilty and paid the assessed fines of $119.50 in court.

In City of Trenton vs. Kiley Sha Singer,

charged with separate counts of expired plates and operating a motor vehicle without maintaining financial responsibility, the defendant failed to appear. A Show Cause Summons was sent to the Livingston County Sheriff for service, and the defendant was ordered to appear on August 6, 2024.

In City of Trenton vs. Levi D. Slabaugh, charged with exceeding posted speed limit(6-10 mph. over), the defendant failed to appear. An arrest warrant was issued and Sabaugh was ordered to appear in court August 6. A cash bond of $99.00 was attached to the warrant.

In City of Trenton vs. Cody Wyatt Stiles, charged with failure to wear a seatbelt, no court documents were recorded.

In City of Trenton vs. Alicia Rey Tiney, charged with failing to drive on the right half of roadway when roadway was of sufficient width, driving while revoked or suspended, and DWI, the defendant’s case was continued to August 6, 2024 at the request of the City attorney.

In City of Trenton vs. Lolohea T. Tuaki, charged with expired plates, the defendant failed to appear. A warrant was issued for her arrest with bond set at $114.00 cash only bond upon apprehension.

Marriage Licenses

Jackie Woodley Jr. to Tiffany Prewitt

Marriage Dissolutions Filed

Brooke Ashford vs. Jon Ashford

Damon Neff vs. Jennifer Neff

Tommy Brittain vs. Elizabeth Bachma

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Jenny Lewis named NCMC’s Green Hills Head Start Director

Jenny Lewis, a Trenton native, has been named the new Head Start Director of Centers and Administration. She graduated from North Central Missouri College with an Associate of Arts degree and with honors from Missouri Western State College with a bachelor’s degree in government and public affairs. Her professional career began in 2005 as a Case Manager for the Third Circuit Treatment Court and then continued to North Central Missouri College, where she worked in the Alexander Student Center. Jenny worked in the Human Resources field for nine years with Saint Luke’s Health System and CFM Insurance. She started with Green Hills Head Start in June 2019 as the Enrollment Specialist.

Jenny’s professional accomplishments include being a 2009 Leadership Trenton graduate, Employee of the Quarter in

2016 at Wright Memorial Hospital, T.E.A.M. certified through NAMIC in 2018, and trained in coaching and facilitating TraumaSmartBadge Copyright outline for Green Hills Head Start employees.

Dr. Lenny Klaver, President, said, “Jenny has experience and knowledge that will help her lead the Green Hills Head Start program and continue the history of success at the centers.”

Jenny said, “I am thankful to continue to work with the amazing team at Green Hills Head Start. Head Start is a vital program to our area, as well as nationwide. I look forward to continuing to help families in our region succeed at giving their children the right start to their education, and helping the entire family be successful.”

In partnership with the Head Start Director of Home Based and Early Childhood, Sue Ewigman, Jenny will be the Director of Centers and Administration for the Green Hills Head Start program. Green Hills Head Start is designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs.

Jenny began her role as the new Head Start Director of Centers and Administration on July 1, 2024, succeeding the retirement of the long-time Director, Janet Gott. Dr. Klaver expressed his gratitude, saying, “I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to Janet Gott for her unwavering commitment to Head Start. In her 32 years of service, Janet has been a driving force in shaping and growing Head Start in a positive direction. We are deeply appreciative of her leadership, her service, and her generous time to NCMC.”

In State vs. Patrick Logan Behen, charged with Infraction Failure to Display plates on motor vehicle, entered a guilty plea and paid fines and court costs in the amount of $118 to the court.

In State vs. Owen Lee Brown, charged with Domestic Assault-3rd Degree (Felony E), the defendant entered a guilty plea. Pursuant to a plea agreement, State amends the charge to Domestic Assault in the 4th Degree and Defendant enters a plea of guilty. Court accepts the same and follows the agreement. Court sentences Defendant to 90 days in the Grundy County Detention Center. Court will suspend the execution of sentence and places Defendant on probation for a period of 2 years under the supervision of NMCS with special conditions that he complete anger management and not be present at the victim's current residence. Defendant given credit for 9 days served. Defendant ordered to make a donation to the Grundy County LERF of $100.00 and pay Court costs of $117.50, for a total of $217.50 to the Court by 0813-2024 at 9:00 a.m.

In State vs. Stacy J. Craig, charged with Felony-D possession of a controlled substance and Felony E unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, the Hearing Continued/ Rescheduled Continuance Reason - Specific Reason Found by Court; Continuance Requestor - Court; Court grants Order for Furlough and will note that De-

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fendant will likely be in treatment for a period of 21-30 days and therefore, on Courts own motion, case is hereby continued from July 9, 2024 to August 13, 2024. Court will further note that the case can be heard prior thereto if Defendant has been released from treatment prior to the anticipated discharge date. Bond continues at $20,000 cash only bond.

In State vs. Jeremy Donald Hamilton, charged with driving while revoked/suspended(Misdemeanor A), the defendant failed to appear. Deft Fail to Appear; Continuance Requestor - Court; State appears by PA. Defendant appears not. Case continued to 07-09-2024 at 9:00 a.m. Clerk to notify Defendant and NMCS.

In State vs. Carli Beth Hendricks, charged with Felony D Assault-2nd Degree, Felony B Burglary 1st Degree and Felony E Property Damage 1st Degree, Defendant appears in custody and with Attorney McConnville want waive formal arraignment and bond arguments. Defendant enters a plea of not guilty and requests a continuance. State has no objection. Case is continued to 07-09-2024 at 9:00 a.m.

In State vs. Maddox Troy McLain charged with Misdemeanor C exceeding posted speed limit(exceeded by 11-15 mph), the defendant entered a written guilty plea, and paid fines and fees in the amount of $70.50 to the court.

In State vs. Jerry Lee Seward, charged

with Felony D Tampering with Motor Vehicle-1st Degree and Misdemeanor BTrespass-1st Degree, the case was suspended. Court reviews the mental evaluation report dated 06-10-2024 and finds that as a result of mental disease or defect, Defendant lacks the capacity to understand the proceedings against him or to assist in his own defense, and that he lacks the mental fitness at this time to proceed with the charges against him. Defendant is remanded to GCSO to be delivered to the care and custody of the Director of the Department of Mental Health for placement. All as per ORDER COMMITTING DEFENDANT TO DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH BECAUSE OF INCOMPETENCY TO PROCEED entered herein.

In State vs. Kiley Sha Singer, charged with five separate offenses, Purchase/attempt to purchase or possession of liquor by minor-2nd or subsequent offense, Misdemeanor A owner operating motor vehicle without maintaining financial responsibility-2nd/subsequent offense, Defendant appears in person pro se and executes a Waiver of Counsel in open Court. Pursuant to plea agreement, Defendant waives formal arraignment and pleads guilty. Court follows the agreement and sentences Defendant to 60 days in the Grundy County Detention Center. Court will suspend the execution of sentence and place Defendant

on probation for a period of 2 years under the supervision of NMCS with special conditions that she complete ADEP (Alcohol Drug Education Program) through NMCS. Further that Defendant shall also wear a SCRAM monitoring bracelet for 60 days and be monitored by NMCS with all expenses attendant thereto shall be paid by Defendant. Defendant further ordered make a donation of $50.00 to Grundy County LERF and to pay Court costs of $117.50, for a total on this case in the amount of $167.50, on or before 10-222024 at 9:00 a.m. or Defendant shall be required to appear said date and time. (SEE ALSO 24AG-CR00056, #704367608 and #704367609)

In State vs. Justin Dee Stark, charged with Misdemeanor A owner operating motor vehicle without maintaining financial responsibility, Misdemeanor D operating motor vehicle on highway without a valid license, and Infraction failure to display plates on motor vehicle, Defendant appears in person and with Attorney Allan Seidel and waives formal arraignment. Pursuant to a guilty plea, Defendant enters a plea of guilty to the charge. Court accepts the same and places Defendant on Court supervised probation for a period of 6 months. Defendant ordered to pay $107.50 Court costs on or before 07-23-2024 at 9:00 a.m. or appearance will be required.

RNC Rejects Missouri GOP Delegates after State Convention Disaster

Mark McLaughlin StaffWriter@Republican-Times.com

For the 54-delegates, 27 regular and 26 alternates planning on attending next week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, we have five words for you. Not so fast, my friends.

And make sure you have trip insurance.

Following a dysfunctional and disastrous Republican State Convention May 4, in which the credentialing process of delegates to the State Convention was botched from the word go, passion and excitement gave way to frustration and disgust, leading to a lack of a quorum at the end of the day to actually pass a state platform.

It was the definition of a circular firing squad.

Accounts of what actually happened May 4 are confusing and hard to follow, but here’s what is known:

On Wednesday July 4, the executive committee of the Missouri Republican Party chose 27-at-large delegates and 26 alternates to replace the delegation elected at the May 4 state convention, and then discarded June 28 by the convention’s contest committee after a complaint about the selection process.

“Alarming Irregularities” were the words used to describe the five-hour credentialing process that undermined confidence that the delegates on hand were those selected to attend the convention at county mass meetings.

New delegates chosen by the Missouri State GOP were “heavily weighted” toward the slate that was prepared for the convention, but never nominated, by state party chairman Nick Myers.

In the reshuffle that occurred, only five people selected

Cari Beth Hendricks, 18, of Trenton was arrested by the Trenton Police Department on June 20, 2024 on charges of Felony D-Assault-2nd Degree, Felony B-Burglary 1st Degree and Felony E Property Damage 1st Degree. The complaint alleges that on June 19, the defendant recklessly caused serious physical injury to a victim by pulling parts of the victim's scalp and chunks of hair out. On the second count for burglary, the complaint alleged that the defendant knowingly remained unlawfully in an inhabitable structure for the purpose of committing an offense of assault and present in that structure were other people who were not a participant in the crime. On the third count, the defendant, on June 19, knowingly damaged a 2009 Toyota Prius w3hich property was owned by a second victim, and the defendant caused this damage by striking the vehicle with a 2 x 4 causing damage to the windshield, side windows, and passenger mirror with damages exceeding $750. The defendant was charged on June 21, and or-

at the convention, consisting of three delegates and two alternates were selected for the replacement delegation. The three delegates selected did not agree to be included.

The confusion and conflict centers around the “Truly Grassroots for Trump” slate of delegates, supported by Grundy County Republican Central Committee members which was headed by two of the party’s three leading candidates for governor, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and State Senator Bill Eigel, neither of whom were included in the new slate of delegates presented.

“I wouldn’t be part of any slate other than the one duly elected by the GOP State Convention,”Eigel said, in a text to the Missouri Independent, .”Anyone participating in this new “Swamp Slate” — from the GOP executive committee to the delegates themselves accepting a role in this sham is part of the problem.”

Mark Schneider, chair of the 6th Congressional District Republican Central Committee(which represents Grundy County and Rep. Sam Graves 6th Congressional District, posted to social media that “The state party was responsible for the disorganization at the state convention and now in charge of hand-picking new delegates and alternates to attend the national convention, now less than a week away.”

Schneider says that the tussle currently at work is between establishment Republicans and what can be described as a MAGA-influenced “grass roots” base of Populist, America-first conservatives.

The State convention was a mess, “with many delegates arriving without their credentials, only to find a party staff using incorrect lists and distributing new credentials without verifying who was receiving them”, according to the

Arrest Records

dered held on $100,000 cash only bond. Division II Court appearance was 6/25/24.

David Ray Gamble, 28, of Kansas City, was arrested by the Chillicothe Police Department on a Capias Warrant for a Probation violation, stemming from a April, 2022 arrest for Felony D Possession of a Controlled substance. The defendant was extradited to Grundy County and is held in the Grundy County Jail on a $15,000 cash only bond. Court date is scheduled for July 11, 2024.

Robert Glenn Blozvich, 54, of Spickard, MO was arrested on June 28, charged with separate counts for Felony E-Leaving the Scene of an Accident-Property Damage in excess of $1,000, Felony E Property Damage 1st Degree, Felony E Domestic Assault-3rd Degree, and B Misdemeanor DWI. The four-part complain alleged that on June 28, the defendant, while operating a motor vehicle was a party to an accident that caused another person to sustain physical injury, and the defendant knew that such injury had occurred, and the defen-

Missouri Independent story.

It took over five hours to get the convention seated, followed by a fight over the chairmanship that elected Sophia Shore, manager of Eigel’s gubernatorial campaign, over Eddie Justice, the party leadership choice.

Arguments ensued over the delegation's slates that had to have all the slots filled. Party rules haggled over whether 27 delegates and 27 alternates were to be seated, or whether the number was 16 delegates and 16 alternates from congressional district conventions and offered by Myers at the state convention.

The convention agreed to the change that removed the allowance for 16 and 16 , and the result was that the “Truly Grassroots for Trump” slate was the single nominated complete slate.

Two candidates for delegate, Dan O’Sullivan and Derrick Good of Jefferson County, both filed complaints at the poorly presented and confused credentialing process, and the contests committee of the Convention agreed, thereby nullifying the original slate of delegates.

O’Sullivan and Good were selected as delegates July 2.

The final delegate list, which will send 54-total delegates and 54-alternates to the RNC in Milwaukee next week will be confirmed by Saturday, July 13. Which set of delegates represent Missouri in Milwaukee next week are now in the hands of the Republican National Committee evaluating the complaints of both sides.

An extensive further study on this subject, following a read out to the Grundy County Republican Central Committee Tuesday, July 9, will lead the next edition of the Republican-Times.

dant left the scene of the accident without stopping and giving sufficient information by which the defendant could be readily identified and located to the nearest police station or judicial officer. On Count two, on June 28, the defendant knowingly damaged the North side metal building and siding , which property was owned by NCMC Russ Derry Practice Facility, with damages exceeding $750. On Count three, on June 28, the defendant knowingly caused physical pain to a victim by grabbing their arm, and the victim was a domestic victim in that the victim and the defendant were related by marriage. On Count 4, on June 28, the defendant operated a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. The defendant is ordered held on $15,000 cash only bond, supervised by North Missouri Court Services.

Loretta Christine Tunnell, 35, of Trenton was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear in court tied to an August 2023 Misdemeanor B charge of Failure to register a motor vehicle. The defendant was arrested

by Harrison County Sheriff’s Department on June 23, and was released after posting bail of $122. She is to appear in Division II Court in Grundy County on August 13, 2024.

Polis Gibo Koro Yege, 42, of Kirksville, was arrested by the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office on July 6, 2024 on charges of Felony B DWI-habitual and Felony E Driving While Revoked/Suspended, charged on July 7, and ordered held on $40,000 cash only bond and administered by North Missouri Court Services and SCRAM monitoring services. The complaint alleges that the defendant, on July 6, 2024, driving on Highway 6 operated a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. The defendant is a habitual offender required to serve a minimum of two years imprisonment before being eligible for parole. Numerous previous offenses were cited dating back to 2007 on similar charges. He will appear in Division II Court on July 9, 2024.

July 11, 2024

Trenton Girls on Upward Trajectory Under Coach Richman

Steve Richman enters his second year as head girls basketball coach at Trenton High, fresh off a District Championship and a 10-14 record that saw the Bulldogs arc vertically at the point in the season when it mattered most.

Richman is in his 34th year of coaching, retired, and smoking some pulled pork when this interview took place.

He is a coach whose selfimage and public image are absolutely congruent. With Coach Richman, what you see is what you get.

Republican-Times Alpha Dogs of the Week

The ALPHA DOG award is given to R-T area athletes who are putting in the work on their offseason sports, the weight room, and their coaches. This week’s Inaugural

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Alpha Dogs of the Week

Coach Hixson’s football nomination for this week is Chase Foster. Hixson says Foster anchors the line as the team’s center and has set the tone for the “big uglies” on the line this summer in workouts, camp, team camp and the weight room. Like a catcher in baseball, the center is the key man in recognizing movement pre-snap on the defensive line, and Foster is a good one.

Three-sport athlete in football, wrestling and baseball, Rongey is the second year starter in Coach Hixson’s Bulldog Arkansas style offense. A superb center fielder and fourth place state finisher in wrestling for Coach Charlie Bacon, Rongey is an incredibly hard worker, is vocal and rallies the team on and off the field, and is a fierce competitor with a lot of grit. (nominated by Coach Guthrie

Football, baseball specialist who may add basketball this year. Weyer is an extremely athletic guy with great range playing centerfield on the baseball team, and size, hands and strength as a tight end on the football team. Weyer will be a defensive specialist for Coach Guthrie’s basketball team this fall.

By Mark McLaughlin StaffWriter@Republican-Times.com

There’s no anxiety, no wishing and hoping, just a clear agenda about what needs to get done and how to do it.

The Bulldog girls had a great summer, and while five days of shootouts this summer are in the rearview, open gyms and weightlifting are still on the schedule throughout July, but he is slowing down on events.

“The kids need to have some summer to just be kids.”Richman said.”We got the things done this summer that we wanted to, and perhaps the best thing has been the development of players down the depth chart and incoming freshmen who got good opportunities to play.”

The team this year will be led by senior Kagen Croy, a player who had an outstanding junior season, but literally becomes the “Alpha Dog” for Richman’s team this year.

“Kagen simply needs to believe me when I tell her that she can really play.”Richman said.”This will be her first time at the varsity level where she is the “go-to” person, but she can certainly do it for us.”

Rainey Clark, a shoot it,

drive it, lockdown defender who does a lot of things all over the court is a tough, heady player ready for a great senior year.

“Rainey was huge for us a year ago, and will be bigger this year.”Richman said.

Richman points to a belief that what has been done this summer by the Bulldog girls has been rea;lly supplemented by several girls playing travel basketball in the summer.

As a former college coach, Richman sees the value in good players playing with other good players, against other good players, and the multiplicative effect that has on the play of his girls.

“The girls will go and play this summer, then come back better, and able to play faster and more efficiently,”Richman said.”and the truth is that coming back into the high school level, not every team has all of those star, tough players they saw all summer.”

“They’ll be ready to rise to the top in that equation.”Richman said.

The Bulldogs are primed to be better this year, and should move up in conference and district standings.

“Where we’re really ahead

is a familiarity with how we’re trying to play and do things.”Richman said.”They’re now working and doing things in my system and performing by those expectations.”

Richman has a squad of returning vets who are able to communicate those expectations to younger players on the squad.

While other programs in the school each have coaches with a definitive style, when looking at Richman, one sees a coach with an understanding of what needs to be done, that things need to be done correctly before moving on to other things, and that that is a season-long process. How the Bulldogs coalesced at exactly the right time a year ago was an indicator of how Richman’s process, not written down, not scripted, just burned into muscle memory over a lot of years, works and works well.

Five hours after this interview was completed, smoked pulled pork sandwiches were the evening’s fare at Case de Richman. There is no report of “barbecue comas” being called in to 911. Ball on, Coach.

TRENTON R-IX SUMMER SPORTS OPPORTUNITIES

The following schedule was released from Trenton R-IX Athletic Director John Cowling on summer athletic opportunities for Bulldog boys and girls athletes

DEAD WEEK — August 3-11

No athletic activities will take place during this week.

WEIGHT ROOM TIMES:

High School Boys Weights: (MWF)-6:30 to 8:00 AM

High School Girls Weights: (MWF) 8:00 to 9:30 AM

Middle School Boys Weights: (TU, TH)

7:00-8:15 AM

Middle School Girls Weights: (Tu, TH) 8:30-9:45 AM

OPEN GYM/OPEN COURT/OPEN FIELD TIMES:

High School Boys Wrestling: (MWF) 8:009:30 AM

High School Girls Wrestling: (MWF) 9:3011:00 AM

High School Girls Basketball: (MWF) 9:30-11:30 AM

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL (MWF) 8:00-9:30 AM

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS GOLF Tu-Th

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Middle School Football (TH) 10:00-11:00 am (after weights)

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS TENNIS Open Court 10:00 AM-11:30 am)

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS

Open Court Tu, Th

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

Open Field (T/TR) 9:00-10:30 AM

SOFTBALL CAMPS

July Date: TBD at Chillicothe or Trenton Softball Team Camp: Mornings July 29August 2

THSL/MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND CAMP

July 22-26 8:00 AM-4:00 PM

DRUMLINE

July 15-19 8:00 AM-4:00 PM

JULY 22-26 8:00-AM-4:00 PM

COLOR GUARD CAMP

Full Band and Color Guard Camp

July 22-26 8:00-4:00 PM

*The Republican-Times will keep this schedule updated through the summer.

Photo by Mark McLaughlin Photo by Mark McLaughlin Photo by Mark McLaughlin