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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.
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2The Salvation Army has always had a mission to serve the homeless by providing shelter and food. In May that mission changed somewhat.
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3 After 26 years, Trails West! was put on hold by the Allied Arts Council, its organizer.
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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.
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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.
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6St. Joseph saw an uptick in economic development in 2018, from The Shoppes at North Village to the South Belt Highway and Downtown.
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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…
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8St. Joseph elected six new city council members in April, including Mayor Bill McMurray, and for the city’s staff it was sort of like they got six new bosses and rehired the other three.
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9A Cameron, Missouri, prison went on lockdown for several months after an inmate riot on May 12.
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10Term limits made it inevitable that St. Joseph would see some new faces in the state General Assembly.
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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.
