By Kirsten Stokes This week’s Sideline Spirit features the Benton High School cheerleading team. As the team prepares to showcase its sideline spirit ahead of Friday’s game against Central High School, getting to this point hasn’t always been the easiest. As they rebuild their team after a discouraging year, coach Ashley Bomberger is focused on
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By Calvin Silvers The Central Indians are coming off a 45-19 victory over Winnetonka in Week 1, capturing not only the first win of the season but Sheldon Farrell’s first victory as a head coach. Now the attention is turned to in-city rival, the Benton Cardinals. While Benton has struggled in recent years, they aren’t
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By Calvin Silvers It’s Week 2 of the high school football season, and News-Press NOW’s Game of the Week features two in-city rivals, the Benton Cardinals and the Central Indians. This will be the third straight season these two teams have faced each other on the gridiron, and the Cardinals are hoping to take the
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By Calvin Silvers For the NFL’s season opener, the back-to-back Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs open their title defense against the Baltimore Ravens on GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium for Thursday Night Football at 7:20 p.m. The only Chiefs’ player out of practice was wide receiver Hollywood Brown. The mention other eight players, Nazeeh
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By Jacob Meikel Newly-acquired Chiefs wide receiver Hollywood Brown was not a participant in Monday’s practice in Kansas City, putting availability for Week 1 in doubt. Brown is still working his way back from a shoulder injury he suffered on the very first play of the preseason in Jacksonville on Aug. 10. The injury Brown
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By NewsPress Now The lights were back on at football stadiums across St. Joseph Friday night as local high school teams returned to action around the area. In News-Press NOW’s game of the week, St. Joseph Christian visited DeKalb. The Lions came off a winning season for the first time in years, and they kept
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By My Courier-Tribune Irises grow easily in the garden, however, gardeners should give the flowering-plants attention in August, says experts. By dividing and replanting clumps that have become too large, gardeners can increase spring displays, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Clumps can be rejuvenated by dividing the rhizomes into small sections. A
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By My Courier-Tribune Fall is time for the changing of the guard in flower beds and containers. As some summer flowers shout their last hurrah, others gradually fade into the background. To fill in holes in the landscape, many nurseries and garden centers offer replacement plants such as mums, asters and pansies that will spruce
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By My Courier-Tribune The Missouri Department of Conservation is warning retailers and aquarium owners to check moss balls for a potential zebra mussel infestation. Moss balls containing the invasive species have been discovered in Washington state and it’s possible they were distributed to buyers in Missouri. states a conservation department release. Zebra mussels were first
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By Calvin Silvers On Thursday night, the No. 22-ranked Northwest Missouri State Bearcats hosted the No. 13-ranked Minnesota State Mavericks in Maryville, Missouri, in a Top-25 matchup. Northwest had not dropped a season opener since 2010, but the Mavericks ended that streak, leaving with a 36-22 victory. It was all Mavericks to begin, as quarterback
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By Jacob Meikel In 2023, St. Joseph Christian proved that the past is the past, and in 2024, it’ll try to not rest on its laurels. Last season, the Lions broke through by going 7-4, but what they went through in the years prior is what makes the record stand out even more. Prior to
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By Calvin Silvers The DeKalb Tigers are coming off a 1-10 season last year, with that single win in the Class 1 state district quarterfinals against Stewartsville with Osborn. One of those 10 losses did come at the hands of St. Joseph Christian, when the Lions faced the Tigers in week 1 of last season,
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By Kirsten Stokes This weeks, Sideline Spirit highlights the St. Joseph Christian cheerleading team. On Wednesday, the team had a morning practice at 6:30 a.m. to get ready for the game of the week versus DeKalb on Friday. Newly positioned head coach Cheyenne Sharp talked about her new position and her teams goals for the
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By Calvin Silvers After months and months of hard work, it was either a day of blessings or sadness for NFL athletes, as the league mandates that every team cut enough players to get below the 53-man threshold for the active roster. Before dissecting each position, the Kansas City Chiefs made some notable cuts ahead
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By Calvin Silvers The Missouri Western State Griffons will kick off the 2024-25 football season Thursday in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, against former MIAA member, Northeastern State. The Griffons, much like the Riverhawks, had some movement on their roster, losing quarterback Armani Edden to graduation. That meant head coach Tyler Fenwick brought in transfers, brewing a healthy
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By My Courier-Tribune As summer draws closer to an end, many people begin to experience the dreaded itchy eyes and runny nose that comes along with blooming ragweed, reports the state conservation department. “While this irritating plant earns every bit of its reputation for being the leading cause of late-season hay fever, another plant often
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By My Courier-Tribune The warm, sunny days and cool nights of fall in Missouri provide ideal growing conditions for cool-season vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein in a press release. “The Chinese cabbage group, which includes napa and bok choy, grows best under short days with temperatures between
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By Calvin Silvers Lafayette head football coach Nate Daugherty enters his second year with the Fighting Irish, looking to take what he learned in year one and improve from last year’s 1-9 season. The team has a rich history, recently having had multiple winning teams throughout the 2010s. However, the start of this decade wasn’t
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By Calvin Silvers The Kansas City Chiefs are back practicing in their home facilities, preparing for Thursday’s last preseason contest, which will take place at Arrowhead Stadium at 7:20 p.m. The opponent will be the Chicago Bears, but more importantly, it’s the last chance for players to make an impact as coaches will finalize the
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By Jacob Meikel The Central football program has exceeded expectations each of the last two seasons, and the next step will be to add playoff wins to its resume in 2024. From 2018 to 2021, the program only won four football games. Since then, they’ve tallied five wins in 2022 and seven wins in 2023.
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By Jacob Meikel Chiefs rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy got his chance to shine in Saturday’s preseason game against the Lions. The first round pick for the Chiefs in 2024 was a premiere target for the team in the 24-23 loss to Detroit, leading the way with six targets in the game. With the opportunities
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By My Courier-Tribune When mentioned by name, “chicken of the woods” might induce a humorous mental image of a fat, feathery chicken surrounded by trees, but here in Missouri it refers to something else entirely. “Many foragers will tell you that finding some chicken of the woods means good eating, and it has nothing to
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By My Courier-Tribune Pest control is an important part of establishing an attractive garden. Insects, diseases and weeds are formidable foes, but the damage they inflict often pales compared to the destruction perpetrated by some of four-legged “friends,” said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein, in an extension press release. “It is extremely frustrating
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By My Courier-Tribune According to Greek mythology, the water nymph Clytie fell in love with the god of the sun, Apollo, who dazzled the earth as he drove his golden chariot across the sky each day. When he rejected Clytie’s affection, it nearly drove her mad. She spent days without food or water as she
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By Jacob Meikel The Kansas City Chiefs said farewell to St. Joseph on Thursday, wrapping up another year of training camp north of home. The roughly four-month long camp came to a close with the Chiefs having their traditional Military Appreciation Day, a chance for military personnel to get autographs and take pictures with the
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By Chris Fortune The fourteenth installment of training camp in St. Joseph closed Thursday, with the Chiefs paying homage to military service members. On the final day of practice, men and women in military fatigues spent time in the VIP tent and fan zone during Military Appreciation Day. After the practice ended, military members stepped
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By Calvin Silvers The Kansas City Chiefs’ time in the community is coming to a close, as Thursday will be their final training camp session out at Missouri Western. As the Chiefs began to pack up and head back home, the media was gifted the positional coaches, who spoke at the podium on Wednesday. Looking
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By Jenna Wilson As training camp nears an end in St. Joseph this summer, despite extreme heat and rainy days, some fans have made it to more than a handful of practices. Training camp has been underway in St. Joseph for four weeks now, and many fans who came out to training camp Wednesday afternoon
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By Calvin Silvers All offseason, the talk surrounding the Kansas City Chiefs was about adding speed to their offense, additions that, in theory, would spread the field and allow deep throws over the top. That speed came from free agent Marquise “Hollywood” Brown and draft pick Xavier Worthy. However, Bown suffered an injury to his
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By Leah Rainwater This year’s Chiefs Training Camp is in its final days, and there have been questions about whether or not camp will continue to be hosted at Missouri Western State University, but many fans are keeping their fingers crossed that the team will be back for another year. Since 2010, Chiefs players have
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