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January 29, 2010
Charges pending in pot bust
Charges are pending against at least one local resident after authorities served a search warrant Tuesday and recovered a large amount of marijuana.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Department and Clay County Narcotics Unit, with the assistance of the Excelsior Springs Police Department and their K-9 unit, served a search warrant Tuesday morning in the 1000 block of Magnolia West.
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January 26, 2010
P&Z discusses Master Plan, winery
The Excelsior Springs Planning & Zoning Commission discussed the draft of the city’s Comprehensive Master Plan last week, but took no action.
The plan, the culmination of more than a year of effort by a local steering committee led by RDG Planning & Design of Omaha, Neb., is designed to guide development and growth in Excelsior Springs over the next few decades.
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January 22, 2010
AIPC adds to Haiti relief effort
Victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti—and the more recent aftershock —will get even more assistance from Excelsior Springs.
American Italian Pasta Company, the largest producer of dry pasta in North America, on Tuesday announced a donation of more than 147,000 pounds of pasta to go to Haiti. The donation represents more than 1 million servings of pasta for the earthquake relief effort.
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January 19, 2010
Bottler donates water for Haiti
The earthquake that recently killed tens of thousands of people in Haiti, injured countless more and rendered hundreds of thousands homeless shocked the world—and moved many to lend a hand.
With relief efforts underway nearly everywhere, local residents are lending some assistance as well.
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January 15, 2010
Thaw brings its own trouble
A major thaw mid-week has helped to knock down a little bit of the snow that’s collected on the ground over the past month or so, but the warmer temperatures have brought their own set of troubles.
While the fact that the mercury topped 40 degrees for two days running helped to melt away the piles of snow around town, much of the slush and water that was produced has been re-freezing at night, making streets, parking lots, driveways and sidewalks treacherous.
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January 12, 2010
Transition House is re-opening
In the early 1990s, the Earl McElwee family donated an old brick apartment building on Saratoga Avenue to the Good Samaritan Center, which at the time was located on Broadway, just north of the building. Over the next four years, a group of dedicated and passionate people rehabilitated the structure and turned it into an apartment building with three units, one on each floor. This building became the Good Samaritan Center’s Transition House, and through last year more than 30 families had been housed there temporarily as they rebuilt their lives.
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January 8, 2010
PROs offering cold weather help
Generally, when school is closed the Excelsior Springs Senior Center is also closed.
But that means that dozens of older and disabled residents of Excelsior Springs can’t gather there for a meal, or get other day-to-day assistance.
But this week, a new program came into being to help those people even when the weather is too treacherous for the Senior Center to be open.
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January 5, 2010
Cold, snow continue without relief
While some people—such as the kids building snowmen, sledding and playing in general—have found ways to enjoy the weather this winter, it’s been causing problems for others.
Frigid temperatures combined with snowfall after snowfall have kept homeowners and business people shoveling away the white stuff, furnace repairmen have had long lists of jobs to do and city crews have been trying to keep up with street plowing. But there have been other issues, as well—like trash pick-up.
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