The Maysville Chamber of Commerce recently launched a project that has been in the works for awhile.

Chamber President Larry Zieber said the Maysville Chamber website is now available and includes links to local business websites, a calendar of events and more.

“What really got this going for us, we had an individual that graduated from Maysville High School, him and his wife have a company called Cornerstone Marketing Strategies and they helped design and implement the website for us,” Zieber said.

The Chamber’s website is maysvillemochamber.com.

MARYVILLE, Mo. – Northwest Missouri State University will be holding a surplus property sale including items such as desks, file cabinets, pool tables and more.

The sale will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 24, at the Materials Distribution Center, located at the corner of West 16th Street and College Park Drive.

According to a press release from Northwest, the sale is open to the public, including Northwest students and employees. Sale items will be available for inspection by potential buyers from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, April 23, and 8 to 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 24.

Full payment must be made immediately after the sale. The University will accept cash, money order, cashier or certified check, personal or business check. All purchased property must be removed by 4 p.m. on Friday, April 27.

Items to be sold, include, but are not limited to: Miscellaneous computer equipment and supplies, miscellaneous notebooks, desks, file cabinets (4-drawer and 2-drawer), miscellaneous chairs, wood bookshelves, glass display case, glass display pie case, 8-foot folding tables, 6-foot round folding tables, small round tables, small square tables, entertainment centers, executive desks, magazine rack, lateral metal file cabinet, A/V carts, speakers, pool tables, futon, music stands, paper presses, greenhouse plant stand, map storage cabinet, decorative rugs, upright pianos, air compressors, doors, safety cabinets, bricks and scrap metal.

For more information, call Angie Wolters in the Northwest purchasing department at (660) 562-1178 or click here.

The Apple Blossom Festival is less than two weeks away and it will kick off with a bigger BBQ.

According to a press release, the “Made With Uncommon Character” campaign, is leading the the 12th annual Apple Blossom BBQ Contest for the first time.

“We’re excited to lead the Apple Blossom BBQ Contest this year and help it grow into more of a festival with more entertainment and food options,” said Kristi Bailey, campaign director.

Triumph Foods is the event’s presenting sponsor and VanZinos BBQ will be serving pulled pork sandwiches and side dishes along with pork tacos to celebrate the Cinco de Mayo weekend.

“While it’s fun to watch the BBQ teams compete like how you see on Food Network, the smell of the BBQ makes you want a whole meal,” Bailey said. “Thanks to Triumph and VanZinos for helping us bring a meal for residents to enjoy.”

Attendees also will be able to sample the work of competitors that participate in the People’s Choice Contest on Friday night.

 

The weekend schedule is:

Friday, May 4

Civic Center Park

5 to 10 p.m. People’s Choice Tasting & Pulled Pork BBQ Meal & Beverages with additional vendors

7 to 10 p.m. Music by Blue Oyster Culture Club

 

Saturday, May 5

9:30 to 11 a.m. Apple Blossom Parade from Noyes & Frederick to Fourth & Felix Downtown

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Live Radio Remote by KKJO at Civic Center Park

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pulled Pork BBQ Meal & Beverages, Kids Activities by Renovation Church, Vendor Fair at Civic Center Park with a Cinco de Mayo fiesta feel.

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Discover Downtown First Saturday Activities in Felix Street Square

3 to 3:30 p.m. BBQ Competition Awards Presentation at Civic Center Park

There is still time to sign up to participate as a BBQ Team and be a vendor at the event. Click here for more information.

The early bird price for meal tickets is $8 for adults and $4 for kids. At the door, adult meal price is $10 and $5 for kids. Early bird tickets are available at the link above.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Voices of Courage Child Advocacy Center, who recently hosted the Apple Blossom BBQ.

(UPDATE) Area law enforcement conducted an overnight operation which resulted in several arrests.

According to Captain Jeff Wilson with the St. Joseph Police Department, the goal of the joint operation was to locate and stop vehicles fleeing from officers.

Wilson said area law enforcement agencies involved included the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Buchanan County Drug Strike Force with outlying support from Elwood, Doniphan County and Andrew County Sheriff Departments.

“It was very well-thought out, very well-planned. It went from the late evening hours into the early morning hours and we would just say that the operation was a success,” Wilson said. “There were vehicles that did flee from officers, these vehicles were tracked by air assets and there were arrests made as a result of this operation.”

Wilson said there were five arrests made as a result of suspects fleeing from officers. Wilson said vehicles flee from officers during normal or investigative traffic stops and some that flee from officers may do so because a suspect is driving a stolen vehicle.  

“Our officers made us very aware of the fact that a lot of vehicles are fleeing from them. This presents a danger not only to the citizens, as far as the driving of these suspects when they flee in their vehicles, but also it speaks to the fact that they are normally involved in some sort of criminal behavior that we’re trying to stop them for anyway,” Wilson said. “(We orchestrated) an operation with this much planning and safety involved in it, to hopefully have somewhat of an affect on these suspects choosing to flee from us, that’s kind of what the premise is behind this. Much like doing a special operation for narcotics or anything along those lines, we saw a problem and we implemented some planning to address that problem.”

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(7:56 a.m. Friday) The St. Joseph Police Department made several arrests overnight due to a joint operation.

According to Sgt. Wayne Byrom with the police department, the operation between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. focused on stolen vehicles and vehicles fleeing from officers.

Around 9:30 Thursday night, police were following a car on 16th Street when the vehicle attempted to get away. The driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into another vehicle parked outside a home. Two people in the vehicle were taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

More information on the results of the joint operation will be released later Friday.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge on Thursday rejected a request from Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to dismiss a felony criminal indictment against him, but sanctioned prosecutors for failing to turn over evidence as soon as they should have.

Greitens was indicted in February on a charge of invasion of privacy. He’s accused of taking and transmitting a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom he had an affair in 2015, before he was elected. Greitens has admitted to what he says was an “entirely consensual” affair and has denied criminal wrongdoing.

Attorneys for Greitens say a private investigator hired by the prosecutor has repeatedly lied to the court. They also allege that Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner knew he lied, and that her office has withheld evidence from the defense.

Circuit Judge Rex Burlison’s sanctions allow the defense to retake depositions with the woman who is at the center of the case and with the private investigator. Both are expected next week, said Susan Ryan, a spokeswoman for the circuit attorney’s office.

Attorneys for Greitens have said prosecutors withheld a videotaped deposition with the woman until an hour before a special state House committee released a report last week that cited allegations of unwanted sexual aggression, and has been slow to turn over other evidence.

Defense attorneys also said 11 pages of private investigator William Tisaby’s notes from a deposition of a friend of the woman, requested weeks ago, were not turned over until Sunday, and only after Greitens’ lawyers threatened to go to court to ask for them.

“These rules are not mere rules of etiquette,” the judge said. “Clearly in this case the state has committed sanctionable discovery violations of the rules of criminal procedure.”

Greitens’ attorneys have also argued that Tisaby has repeatedly lied to the court. For example, he said he didn’t take notes during an interview of the woman, but photos and a video showed him taking notes. In another instance, Tisaby said he checked his laptop for notes during a deposition lunch break, but later said the laptop wasn’t even in St. Louis, defense attorneys said.

Prosecutors have said they made a mistake in relying on Tisaby but that it didn’t warrant dismissing the case.

Tisaby has not returned phone and email messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Greitens’ trial is scheduled for May 14. It’s among many worries for the Republican governor. A growing number of lawmakers, including all of the top Republicans, have called on Greitens to resign.

Those resignation calls increased after Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley said Tuesday that an investigation by his office determined that Greitens may have committed another crime by using a donor list from the veterans’ charity he founded, The Mission Continues, to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign without the charity’s permission. Since the alleged crime happened in St. Louis it will be up to Gardner, a Democrat, to decide whether to file charges.

Ryan declined to speculate Thursday on whether new charges would be filed.

Hawley also turned over his findings to the House investigatory committee, which is to recommend in the coming weeks whether to pursue impeachment proceedings to try to remove Grietens from office.

House Speaker Todd Richardson said Thursday that the panel is moving “as expeditiously” but “as thoroughly” as possible and has no particular deadline. The Legislature is to end its regular work May 18. Richardson said a “substantial” number of Republican House members have already signed a petition to call the Legislature into a special session if needed to consider impeachment.