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By NewsPress Now Usually boil advisories and orders come and go within a few days, but the city of Maysville has been dealing with unsafe drinking water for weeks. Maysville has been under a boil order since Aug. 28, according to the city’s website, due to high turbidity levels.  Residents have taken to online community

By Kirsten Stokes This week’s Sideline Spirit features the LeBlond Eagles cheerleading team ahead of Friday’s Game of the week versus Plattsburgh. On Tuesday afternoon, the Golden Eagles cheerleaders practiced for this week’s game and their homecoming performance. Head coach Adrienne Smith used her experience and voice to lead the team through practice. “Give it

By Ashley Luthans After graduating more than 60 years ago, the Benton High School Class of 1958 came together Thursday to give back to a St. Joseph park, just ahead of the South Side Fall Festival. The class has had yearly reunions for decades, but that changed when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Their 2020 reunion

By Leah Rainwater The St. Joseph, Missouri Marathon, put on by the St. Joseph Sports Commission, is back for another year. The race will return on Saturday, Sept. 28, with the start/finish line at Civic Center Park. Registration will close the day before the race. Participants will receive marathon gear, including a branded T-shirt, towel,

By Cameron Montemayor A former longtime St. Joseph elementary school could become part of a solution to address a growing shortage of workforce housing in the city. Real estate company MG Real Estate LLC, with support from the city and the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce, is planning to redevelop Humboldt Elementary School into new

By Chris Fortune The author of a book that takes place in St. Joseph and features many of its landmarks is coming to visit the city that inspired her story. St. Joseph Reads, a group made up of community members and organizations with a goal of promoting literacy, helped organize Hattie Davish Week. It’s the

By NewsPress Now The Riverside Road bridge over U.S. Highway 36 is back open after repairs that began on Monday. Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation closed the bridge for deck repairs and the work was finished earlier than planned.

By Cameron Montemayor St. Joseph is taking the next steps toward potential development of a large sports complex in St. Joseph, with city documents now identifying a sole location for the facility. City officials are now deep into the process of identifying a potential developer by advertising for requests for qualifications for potential candidates, a

By Cameron Montemayor Nearly a year and a half after St. Joseph voters approved a 3% tax on recreational marijuana sales, data is shedding light on how much the tax is generating for the city. As of September 2024, St. Joseph had received nine months of marijuana sales tax revenue totaling $678,630.61, according to city

By NewsPress Now Two people suffered serious injuries after being ejected from their motorcycle Saturday evening. Ronald Frazier, 60, of Chillicothe, was driving a 2010 Harley Davidson Road King on U.S. Route 65, 4 miles south of Trenton, Missouri, when he traveled off the roadway, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol crash reports. The motorcycle

By Cameron Montemayor With designs for the new Maple Leaf Skatepark now complete, project officials are setting their sights on construction this fall for the anticipated facility in north St. Joseph. Renderings of the park created by developer Spohn Ranch — a Los Angeles-based company specializing in skatepark development — are painting a clearer picture

By Kyle Schmidt One Pattonsburg native is fresh off her 2024 Olympic appearance for trap shooting, a journey that began when she was just 12 years old and first picked up a gun. “My stepdad got me started when I was 12. I had never shot a gun before and I was terrified to try