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March 31, 2009
Downtown will be focus of meeting
In February, dozens of people attended one of several community workshops on the Excelsior Springs Comprehensive Master Plan.
The same format will hold true in April, as RDG Planning & Design plans two open house workshops and a third session to publicly present the findings from the workshops. This time, the focus of the workshops will be on the downtown area.
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March 27, 2009
City still has some salt, sand
It was a cold winter, but city officials didn't get nearly as much snow as they'd anticipated.
As a result, Excelsior Springs will be well-prepared for winter 2009-2010.
"We still have about three-fourths of the salt and sand we bought for this winter," Public Works Director Chad Birdsong said. "Usually at this time we don't have nearly this much left."
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March 24, 2009
Council OKs brick repair at Hall of Waters
Meeting in a special session Friday morning, the Excelsior Springs City Council voted 4-0 to move forward on repairs to the northern side of the west terrace wall at the Hall of Waters.
Councilman Sonny Parker was absent from the meeting.
The council's vote endorsed a 4-1 recommendation from the Excelsior Springs Capital Improvements Authority, which allocated nearly $60,000 for the repairs during their own special session Thursday afternoon.
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March 20, 2009
Cameras to snap away by April Fool's Day
Some commuters may have been slowed down this week by a variety of trucks and equipment along U.S. 69 near the southwest corner of town, but they haven't seen anything yet.
Starting no later than April 1, the slow-down is intended as a permanent feature of that stretch of highway, as red light cameras get up and running. The controversial cameras are the first for Excelsior Springs, though St. Louis is already using them and Kansas City has installed several cameras recently.
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March 17, 2009
Council OK's park plans, sewer credits
The west side of town may have a park to call its own as early as this summer.
The Excelsior Springs City Council voted 4-0 Monday night to use a little less than $89,000 in capital improvements funding to construct a parking lot, rain garden/bioswale and other features at a new park along the south side of Wornall Road between Crown Hill Cemetery and U.S. 69.
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March 13, 2009
Locals honored for preservation work
Last week, two local attorneys were recognized for their work in preserving Excelsior Springs history.
It was the second time in as many years that a restoration project in Excelsior Springs was honored with a Preserve Missouri Award from the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation.
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March 10, 2009
Snow day may not be made up this year
Students in the Excelsior Springs School District have only missed one day this school year due to the weather -- and they may not have to make it up. Elkhorn Elementary is the one exception. Students at that school missed two days after their climate control system froze up, and that puts them past the tipping point with regard to make-up days.
Superintendent of Schools Jim Horton told the Excelsior Springs Board of Education Monday night that the district has 175 days built into its calendar, and only 174 days are required by law. With only one day missed for snow, Horton said, the choices are to extend the calendar one day into the final week of May or not make the day up at all.
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March 6, 2009
Hospital nears finish, plans open house
The final phase of the expansion at the Excelsior Springs Hospital is now in its last stages.
The new and larger emergency room is scheduled to open April 1, putting in place the last piece of the 28,000-square-foot, $9 million expansion.
The hospital's new wing opened at the end of December, but the emergency room portion of the project was still well underway at that time.
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March 3, 2009
Council gets first look at new Web site
The Excelsior Springs City Council got an early look Monday night at their newly-redesigned Web site.
The presentation, the only one of three on the council agenda that actually occurred, was given by Kevin Morgan of Morgansites.com. The Excelsior Springs-based company, owned by Morgan and his wife, Sonya, was hired to revamp the city's Web site to enhance its content and user-friendliness.
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