Looking up
Area residents were treated to an unannounced military sky show around 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 2. According to spokesmen from the Whiteman Air Force Base Public Affairs office, two B-2 bomber pilots were performing a training mission from Kansas City to Jefferson City and the Lake of the Ozarks on typical flight patterns. Normally the contrails are not visible, but due to a cold front moving in from the Rockies, which pushes the humidity downward, conditions were right to make the contrails visible.


EEZ status will help grow
county’s job base
The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) has announced approval of Enhanced Enterprise Zone (EEZ) designation to Moniteau County and those who work to promote the county as a place to start a business or expand see it as a valuable aid in helping grow the availability of jobs here.



Glad it's a memory
A year ago Feb. 1 Alan Putman was doing what most in the area were - bracing for a forecast 20 inches of snow and is glad now it's just a memory. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 found him out cleaning windshields at the full service pumps of his A & R Oil MFA station. Among his customers were Tina Abbott and her little dog Lucky.


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St. Andrew’s takes extra long
weekend to overcome illness
by Becky Holloway
St. Andrew School students were given an extra day to their weekend as school was dismissed Friday, Jan. 27 in hopes of preventing flu-like illnesses from causing more absences.


Council to hear report on MRED work
The Tipton City Council will hear an update on work by the Moniteau County Regional Economic Development (MRED) group when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6.


Relay for Life kickoff is Tuesday
The Moniteau County Relay for Life kickoff event will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7 at First Baptist Church in California.





Firehouse pad
A year ago Feb. 1 this would not have been possible as the area was experiencing a major winter weather event. Matthew Clifford, left, and an inmate with the Tipton Correctional Center work release program troweled freshly poured concrete at the Tipton Firehouse Wednesday afternoon in preparation for a new awning that will be erected next week over the west entrance to the firehouse.


Sleepy driver rearends
vehicle slowing for turn
A Sedalia woman said she fell asleep at the wheel and doesn’t remember anything until she woke up when the airbag on her vehicle deployed and hit her in the face after rear ending another vehicle slowing down to make a right turn off Highway 50 Friday afternoon, Jan. 27.


Couple receive serious
injuries in accident
A Versailles couple received serious injuries in an accident Sunday evening, Jan. 29 on Route B at Quarles Cutoff Drive in Cooper County.


Accident south of Syracuse
A one-vehicle accident resulted in moderate injuries to the driver and minor injuries to her passenger Friday afternoon, Jan. 27 according to the Missouri Highway Patrol report.


Agronomy specialist to speak Feb. 8 at SFCC
Joni Ross Harper, a University of Missouri Extension agronomy specialist, will discuss fall seeding legumes into hay and pasture ground and the fertilizer value of those legumes at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at a Young Farmers meeting in the Potter-Ewing Agriculture Building on the State Fair Community College Sedalia campus, Sedalia.


Tipton Municipal Court report
Monday, Jan. 30