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By NewsPress Now Community members will have a chance to celebrate Krug Park’s past and learn more about upcoming improvements at a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 10. City officials, leaders and park advocates will speak at the ceremony. Guests can learn more about projects for the amphitheater, children’s circus, castle, picnic area and buffalo bowl. The

By Ashley Luthans A local woman is taking her talent to her sport’s biggest stage. Hunter Henderson, a bodybuilder and powerlifter from DeKalb, Missouri, has qualified for Ms. Olympia. “It is the most prestigious bodybuilding stage that you can step on,” Henderson said. “You know, Olympia is every bodybuilder’s dream, to get to the Olympia,

By NewsPress Now News-Press NOW wants to see the special talents of local pets, even if that special talent is enjoying car rides or just being adorable. You can submit photos of your pets along with a brief description of their talents to our Pet Pals “Smarty Pets” contest at newspressnow.com/petpals. The contest is sponsored

By NewsPress Now The Liberty Oak Splash Park is closing for the season this weekend. Families wanting to have some fun in the water will have to act fast, as its final day of the season is Sunday, Sept. 29. Located at 402 E. Hyde Park Ave., the splash park’s hours are 10 a.m. to

By NewsPress Now Drivers will encounter traffic delays in the area of King Hill Avenue and Lake Boulevard due to a water main break. An official with the city’s streets department said the break happened at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and the road is down to one lane. Crews from Missouri American Water will be

By Cameron Montemayor Eligible senior citizens in Buchanan County will now be able to seek freezes on future increases to their real estate property taxes under a new law signed Monday. Buchanan County Commissioners Scott Nelson, Ron Hook and Scott Burnham officially signed the Senior Citizen Homestead Property Tax Credit program into law at their

By Ashley Luthans Leadership Northwest Missouri is taking applications for its 2025 class. The organization offers leadership training, education and allows many networking opportunities. The class starts with a two-day retreat at Conception Abbey on Jan. 22 and 23 of 2025. Following the retreat, there will be monthly daylong classes in various communities around the

By Leah Rainwater In order to assist St. Joseph residents in maintaining their property, the city is hosting another round of its Clean Sweep program. Clean Sweep will go from Oct. 1-7, when residents can dump yard waste, trash and appliances at the landfill. Rod McQuerrey, the superintendent of solid waste and recycling at the

By Leah Rainwater One St. Joseph staple is back for the weekend, with fun food choices and activities. The South Side Fall Festival is happening at Hyde Park from Friday, Sept. 20 through Sunday, Sept. 22. One vendor at the festival has owned her business for about four years. She says the South Side Fall

By Cameron Montemayor Local residents and members of the Latino community are invited to join arms for the second annual celebration of Mexican Independence this weekend in St. Joseph.  On Saturday, Sept. 21, Latinos Connect and the St. Joseph School District will host ‘Grito de Independencia’ a tradition of the Mexican community in St. Joseph

By NewsPress Now Usually boil advisories and orders come and go within a few days, but the city of Maysville has been dealing with unsafe drinking water for weeks. Maysville has been under a boil order since Aug. 28, according to the city’s website, due to high turbidity levels.  Residents have taken to online community

By Kirsten Stokes This week’s Sideline Spirit features the LeBlond Eagles cheerleading team ahead of Friday’s Game of the week versus Plattsburgh. On Tuesday afternoon, the Golden Eagles cheerleaders practiced for this week’s game and their homecoming performance. Head coach Adrienne Smith used her experience and voice to lead the team through practice. “Give it

By Ashley Luthans After graduating more than 60 years ago, the Benton High School Class of 1958 came together Thursday to give back to a St. Joseph park, just ahead of the South Side Fall Festival. The class has had yearly reunions for decades, but that changed when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Their 2020 reunion

By Leah Rainwater The St. Joseph, Missouri Marathon, put on by the St. Joseph Sports Commission, is back for another year. The race will return on Saturday, Sept. 28, with the start/finish line at Civic Center Park. Registration will close the day before the race. Participants will receive marathon gear, including a branded T-shirt, towel,

By Cameron Montemayor A former longtime St. Joseph elementary school could become part of a solution to address a growing shortage of workforce housing in the city. Real estate company MG Real Estate LLC, with support from the city and the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce, is planning to redevelop Humboldt Elementary School into new

By Chris Fortune The author of a book that takes place in St. Joseph and features many of its landmarks is coming to visit the city that inspired her story. St. Joseph Reads, a group made up of community members and organizations with a goal of promoting literacy, helped organize Hattie Davish Week. It’s the

By NewsPress Now The Riverside Road bridge over U.S. Highway 36 is back open after repairs that began on Monday. Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation closed the bridge for deck repairs and the work was finished earlier than planned.

By Cameron Montemayor St. Joseph is taking the next steps toward potential development of a large sports complex in St. Joseph, with city documents now identifying a sole location for the facility. City officials are now deep into the process of identifying a potential developer by advertising for requests for qualifications for potential candidates, a

By Cameron Montemayor Nearly a year and a half after St. Joseph voters approved a 3% tax on recreational marijuana sales, data is shedding light on how much the tax is generating for the city. As of September 2024, St. Joseph had received nine months of marijuana sales tax revenue totaling $678,630.61, according to city

By NewsPress Now Two people suffered serious injuries after being ejected from their motorcycle Saturday evening. Ronald Frazier, 60, of Chillicothe, was driving a 2010 Harley Davidson Road King on U.S. Route 65, 4 miles south of Trenton, Missouri, when he traveled off the roadway, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol crash reports. The motorcycle

By Cameron Montemayor With designs for the new Maple Leaf Skatepark now complete, project officials are setting their sights on construction this fall for the anticipated facility in north St. Joseph. Renderings of the park created by developer Spohn Ranch — a Los Angeles-based company specializing in skatepark development — are painting a clearer picture

By Kyle Schmidt One Pattonsburg native is fresh off her 2024 Olympic appearance for trap shooting, a journey that began when she was just 12 years old and first picked up a gun. “My stepdad got me started when I was 12. I had never shot a gun before and I was terrified to try

By Ashley Luthans Three people were injured Friday night after a vehicle flipped on its side after the driver attempted driving “donuts” in a private parking lot north of Savannah. While in motion, the 2023 Polaris RZR flipped, partially ejecting the two passengers, 28-year-old Kayla Whitmer and 34-year-old Courtney Barron. The vehicle then came to a

By Ashley Luthans On Saturday, Ed Wiebe was named as one of the recipients of the 2024 Hy-Vee Legendary Customer Service Award. Wiebe was surprised Saturday morning by a crowd of family, friends and co-workers in the St. Joseph Hy-Vee waiting to tell him the news and congratulate him. Wiebe has been with the St.

By Cameron Montemayor Among the handful of improvements carried out on the Interstate 229 double-decker bridge this week, two Downtown exit ramps saw the notable addition of new safety components following two wrong-way crashes this year. MoDOT officials confirmed the installation of three new warnings signs — one “wrong way” sign and two “do not

By NewsPress Now Drivers who traverse the the Riverside Road bridge over U.S. Route 36 will need to seek an alternate route for much of next week due to bridge repairs. Necessary bridge repairs will close the portion OF Riverside Road — also called Buchanan County Route AC — over U.S. Route 36 beginning Monday,