Monday, December 31, 2018
1 A major school district scandal in 2015 and a failed tax levy increase dubbed Proposition 1 in 2017 left the school district with some difficult decisions to make in 2018.
Sunday, December 30, 2018
2The Salvation Army has always had a mission to serve the homeless by providing shelter and food. In May that mission changed somewhat.
3 After 26 years, Trails West! was put on hold by the Allied Arts Council, its organizer.
4 The new year will be the beginning of a lifetime in prison for a man who took the life of one St. Joseph resident and seriously injured another.
5 Drought settled in rapidly across all of Northwest Missouri during 2018, inflicting harm on farms and causing some municipalities to scramble for emergency water supplies.
6St. Joseph saw an uptick in economic development in 2018, from The Shoppes at North Village to the South Belt Highway and Downtown.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
7Throughout 2018, the St. Joseph Police Department teamed up with law enforcement agencies around the city and county to get a handle on street-level crime. By adding patrol units to the streets of St. Joseph and having a helicopter monitor from above, the department conducted four major tra…
8St. Joseph elected six new city council members in April, including Mayor Bill McMurray, and for the cityโs staff it was sort of like they got six new bosses and rehired the other three.
9A Cameron, Missouri, prison went on lockdown for several months after an inmate riot on May 12.
10Term limits made it inevitable that St. Joseph would see some new faces in the state General Assembly.
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
The City of St. Joseph Parks, Recreation and Civic Facilities Department recently received a donation in the amount of $79,544 from the Leaverton Trust.
Monday, January 01, 2018
For years, St. Joseph residents have considered safety to be one of the cityโs greatest assets.
In a multi-year pattern of deficit spending after a major financial scandal surfaced in 2014-15, the St. Joseph School District placed a significant property tax to vote in 2017.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Not even clouds and traffic congestion can stop celestial events.
The skyline of Downtown St. Joseph changed in 2017 as Mosaic Life Care moved more than 200 of its employees into the German-American Bank building.
An otherwise calm Good Friday was shattered when two pickup trucks collided on Riverside Road.
Saturday, December 30, 2017
A scourge for our age, the opioid epidemic threatens to kill more Missourians in 2017 than traffic accidents.
Friday, December 29, 2017
Fourth of July began with a bang, although it would be hours until fireworks displays lit up the sky over St. Joseph.
Beginning in August 2017, the men and women of the 139th Airlift Wing of the Missouri Air National Guard and their aircraft were involved in rescue and recovery operations after hurricanes wrecked parts of Texas, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Thursday, December 28, 2017
There have been some major changes at the East Hills Shopping Center this year.
