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King City woman hospitalized after pickup strikes mower

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GENTRY COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just before 3:30p.m. Thursday in Gentry County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a John Deere Lawn mower driven by Cindy J. Anders, 69, King City, was northbound on Route Z just inside the east city limits of King City.

The driver entered the road into the path of a westbound 2002 Dodge Ram 3500 driven by Douglas L. Delaney, 60, King City.  The pickup struck the front right side of the mower. The driver was ejected from the mower.

Life Net Eagle transported Anders to Mosaic Life Care in serious condition, according to the MSHP. Delaney was not injured.

YWCA’s 18th annual luncheon to honor local “Women of Excellence”

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The YWCA in St. Joseph will host its 18th annual event to recognize local women who make a difference in the community.

According to YWCA St. Joseph CEO Tammy Killin, 18 years ago, a group of women came together and wanted to plan an event to recognize women leadership in the community.

“I don’t believe any of them thought it would be as big as is it is now… last year we had over 1,100 guests attend, so it has become quite the event to recognize women in our community, leadership and their volunteerism,” Killin said. “We had 51 nominees this year. We had two ‘Lifetime Achievement’ awardees, Carol Meyers and Jo Eyberg, and then we had our ‘Y Woman of Merit’ and that was selected through the YWCA and that was Linda Judah, for this year.”  

Other award categories include ‘Women in the Workplace,’ a ‘Future Leader’ scholarship for a high school senior and ‘Women in Volunteerism.’

Those receiving awards in each category will be announced during the Women of Excellence Awards Luncheon on June 20th.

The event takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 20th, at the Civic Arena in St. Joseph.

For more information, or to make a reservation to attend, click here or call (816) 232-4481.

Davies/Dekalb County Jail Activity (5/20-5/23/19)

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Here’s the latest booking activity from the Daviess/Dekalb County Jail. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.

This information is provided by the Daviess/Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office and is not criminal history. The St Joseph Post assumes no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, or completeness, of this information.

Temps in the 70s with a chance of rain and storms tonight

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A cluster of thunderstorms will develop in central and eastern Kansas, and eventually push its way into far eastern Kansas and western Missouri by late this evening. While the overall severe weather threat is low at this time, a few strong wind gusts and very heavy rainfall will be possible. Active weather will continue into Friday and Saturday. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:

Today: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 10%.

Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 10 p.m. Cloudy, with a low around 65. East southeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Friday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 81. South southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Cloudy, with a low around 65. South southwest wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Saturday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. South southwest wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Sunday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Memorial Day: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

Monday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tuesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.

Bridge fixes, business incentives, and education funding highlight legislative session for area senator

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By BRENT MARTIN

St. Joseph Post

A compromise reached during the recently concluded Missouri legislative session should pave the way for big improvements to deteriorating bridges in the state.

State Sen. Dan Hegeman of Cosby says House resistance to Gov. Mike Parson’s $300 million bond proposal led to negotiations which resulted in a plan both the House and Senate could accept.

“So, we did seven-year bonding, $50 million upfront cash, you might call it a down payment,” Hegeman tells St. Joseph Post. “And, like I say, if we’re able to leverage them to get these grants from the federal government, then we will do $300 million worth of bonding to complete the 250 bridges in the state of Missouri.”

Missouri will apply for special federal funds to complete some of the more expensive bridge repairs on the state priority list.

A proposal to give General Motors $50 million in tax breaks to expand production at its plant in Wentzville complicated an economic development proposal by Gov. Parson that didn’t need any controversy added to it. Several of the governor’s fellow Republicans in the Senate held up approval of the workforce development plan, claiming it gave away too much state money and could be ripe for abuse.

Hegeman supported the mixture of business incentives and workforce training programs.

“Some of these were economic development programs that have been combined and reconstituted,” Hegeman says. “Some programs have been doing well for many years, just kind of with a different name and refreshed. But also, there are some new tools that we have given to our Department of Economic Development.”

Hegeman says the General Assembly must keep an eye on how the incentives are used.

As chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Hegeman, was proud of the state budget his committee recommended and the legislature approved this year.

The legislature adopted a $30 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year.

Hegeman notes the legislature approved $1 million increases to the core budgets of each four-year college and university.

“The state of Missouri has done core cuts of higher education, we have just not been able to put money into higher education the past few years,” Hegeman says. “I was proud that we were able to finally put some money into higher education and try to do what we can to bring down the cost of higher education for the citizens of the state of Missouri that are moving in that direction.”

An uptick in state revenue allowed the legislature to approve the increase to higher education as well as to fully fund the formula which pays for public schools in Missouri.

Buchanan County Jail Activity (5/21-5/22/19)

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Here’s the latest booking activity from the Buchanan County Jail. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law. These are courtesy photos.

This information is provided by the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office and is not criminal history. The St Joseph Post assumes no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, or completeness, of this information.

Obituaries

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Floodwaters cover several St. Joseph streets

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St. Joseph police have issued flooding warnings for a number of streets.

The St. Joseph Police Department warns motorists to avoid southeast state highway FF, state highway H, state highway C/Saxton Easton Road, 82nd Road/Saxton Easton Road, the 10600 block of Saxton Easton Road, and state highway MM-80th Road on Rock Creek Road due to water covering the roadways.

 

I-DOT uses Forest Service technique to re-open Highway 2 between I-29 and Nebraska City

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By BRENT MARTIN

St. Joseph Post

Approaching Highway 2 from the Missouri River bridge at Nebraska City./Photo by Brent Martin

A route to Nebraska from I-29 has re-opened after the Iowa Department of Transportation took a page out of the US Forest Service notebook.

I-DOT Engineer Austin Yates says the agency used a Forest Service emergency road repair technique to get traffic flowing over Highway 2, between I-29 and Nebraska City.

Yates says I-DOT understands floodwaters could once again close the road.

“We’re always continually monitoring that,” Yates tells St. Joseph Post. “Number one is safety, so if that water does start coming up, unfortunately, we would close the rock roads if water would be threatening them, but certainly that’s something we wouldn’t do lightly, but also we would not hesitate to do it.”

Yates says I-DOT reviewed how the Forest Service worked to move traffic over some of the rougher roads it maintains. On the portion of Highway 2 heavily damaged by floodwaters, the contractor sunk a corrugated metal culvert and piled three-inch rock on top of it with a layer of fabric with road rock dumped on top of that. Concrete barriers, often called Jersey barriers, line both sides of Highway 2, holding back deep floodwaters from the Missouri River. The westbound lanes opened May 10th with the eastbound lanes opening five days later.

The flood-damaged portion of Highway 2./Photo by Brent Martin

Permanent repairs to Highway 2 are planned for this summer. Yates says I-DOT plans to raise the roadway about 16 inches over the portion most prone to flooding.

The emergency repairs allow a path from east to west as the Missouri Department of Transportation works to repair roads leading to the Brownville and Rulo bridges to Nebraska.

Yates says floodwaters didn’t cause as much damage to I-29 as he had feared. He says though the route was closed quite a while in southwest Iowa, I-DOT moved as quickly as it could to re-open the major thoroughfare.

“Pick up a lot of traffic from I-80 in Omaha, pick up a lot of traffic on I-29 at I-90 in Sioux Falls. It’s a heavy freight corridor,” Yates says. “Down near St. Joe, we know we see about 17,000 vehicles a day is the normal traffic.”

Trucks make up about half of that traffic.

While traffic is moving again on I-29, traffic is not back to normal. Portions of the interstate are being repaired, especially between Hamburg, Iowa and Highway 2.

Yates cautions motorists that many of the food and fuel stops they have relied on in the past are still recovering from flood damage, limiting gas station, convenient stores, and fast-food restaurant availability along the way between St. Joseph and the Omaha/Council Bluffs area.

“Just be aware that services are limited in that stretch of I-29,” Yates reminds drivers.

 

 

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