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New Knox County High School and Middle School Assistant Principal
By Echo Menges The Knox County R-1 School Board voted to hire a new Knox County High School and Middle School Assistant Principal, Becky Barnhill, for the 2024-2025 school year during their closed session meeting held on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Barnhill, 41, of Edina, granted The Edina Sentinel with a written interview to better…
Read MoreIt’s Official, The Baring Post Office Is Coming Back
By Echo Menges The citizens of Baring have someone to thank for forward movement on bringing back the Baring Post Office. Shannon Downing, Baring resident and owner of IDK Cafe in Baring, closed escrow and officially purchased the Baring Post Office property on Monday, April 15, 2024. Now that the sale is complete, Baring Post…
Read MoreDamaging Winds Accompany Severe Weather in Edina
By Echo Menges Severe weather impacted Edina on Tuesday, April 16, 2424. The National Weather Service warned of a severe thunderstorm and tornado risk early in the day. The storm came through in several rounds of heavy rainfall and damaging winds. Tuesday afternoon, at approximately 3:50 p.m. strong winds broke large tree limbs along North…
Read MoreLocal Lineman to Help Electrify Guatemalan Village
By Travis Mathes, Lewis County REC A Lewis County REC lineman will help bring electricity to a remote Guatemalan village this summer. Joe Lay is one of eight volunteer linemen who will leave the United States this summer bound for Viucalvitz, Guatemala. Here he will build power lines connecting the village to a small hydroelectric…
Read MoreKnox County Recognized as Purple Heart Community
By Echo Menges Knox County has been added to the list of Purple Heart counties in Missouri. A ceremony recognizing the county was held Friday morning, April 12, 2024, in front of the All Veterans Memorial at the Knox County Courthouse Courtyard. “I’m really proud of what you’re doing,” said Walt Schley, past Department Commander…
Read More105 Reasons To Celebrate A Life Well Lived
By Emilie Rumble Born on a cold and wintry day, February 25, 1919, on the family farm located one and half miles north of Brashear, Missouri, the daughter of Orville and Ora Patterson was delivered by the family neighbor, Alma Eagle, because the baby girl was in a hurry to arrive, and the doctor was…
Read MoreKnox County Municipal Election Results
By Echo Menges About one in five Knox County voters made their way to the polls or cast an absentee ballot for the Municipal Election on April 2 with a low voter turnout of 21.39 percent and a total of 523 ballots cast out of 2,445 registered voters, according to information released by the County…
Read MoreMeet the Candidates
Karisha V. Devlin (I) for Knox County R-1 School Board My name is Karisha Devlin, and I moved to Knox County 21 years ago after my marriage to Dan Devlin. I worked for the University of Missouri Extension as an Agribusiness Specialist for over 20 years. Last year, I left MU Extension to work for…
Read MoreNEMO COOP Holds Annual Meeting
By Emilie Rumble On Thursday, March 14, 2024, the Northeast Missouri COOP held its annual meeting over an extended lunch period at the Edina facility by holding a drive-through meal of ribeye sandwiches, pickle spears, chips, bottled water, and cookies, along with customer appreciation gifts for patrons of a COOP logo-engraved wooden pizza cutting board…
Read MoreBrashear Ladies Honored as MSHSAA Legends
BRASHEAR GIRLS 2004 STATE CHAMPIONS HONORED AT MSHSAA LEGENDS-Members of the 2004 undefeated Class 1 Champion girls basketball team were honored at the halftime of the 2024 Girls Class 1 first place game. Team members along with Coach Sara Williams, shown in no particular order are Brooke Kelsey, Holly Lewellen, Kristen Nelson, Brooke Miller, Dani…
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