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    CHAMOIS — Chamois R-1 school board members approved a new salary schedule for all school employees and staff for the 2025-26 school year at their March 12 meeting. Board …
OSAGE COUNTY — In last Tuesday’s meeting, Interim Road & Bridge Foreman Justin Bridges accepted an offer of the permanent position from Osage County Commissioners. “We had …
  FREEBURG — Freeburg trustees approved a deficit budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year at their March 4 meeting. The village plans to pull $186,935 from reserves to cover the …
Commission News

Commissioners hire road and bridge foreman

OSAGE COUNTY —Commissioners spent most of last week interviewing candidates for road and bridge foreman in closed session. At Tuesday’s meeting, Osage County Commissioners voted to …

Commissioners vote to merge county email addresses

Osage County, Missouri, Courthouse

OSAGE COUNTY —Remote Computer Services (RCS) owner Eric Reichel was present at Thursday morning’s commission meeting, along with representatives from nearly all elected officials’ …

Hoskins, Congressman Onder to speak at Lincoln Day

WESTPHALIA — Provided the weather allows it, the annual Lincoln Day dinner is scheduled for Thursday at the Westphalia Lions Hall, beginning with happy hour at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30, and …

Sports

Keilholz sets three-point records at William Woods

Talk about waiting until the last minute. Chamois native and William Woods University senior Katie Keilholz set two three-point records during her recent season. The career mark of 233 …

Chamois drops in district opener to Jamestown

Chamois had high hopes for a shot at the district title. Instead, the Pirates lost in the C1D9 opener to Jamestown last week to end the year at 14-13. “This was a very disappointing end to …

Archers compete at Vienna qualifier, SFX, Trinity Lutheran

OSAGE COUNTY —   Archers from the area had a busy week with competitions at several area schools. Here are the results. CHAMOIS R-1 At the Vienna R-1 Last Qualifier, Jack …
Sports

Comets earn fourth at state wrestling tournament

After a groundbreaking perform ance at the Class 1, District 1 tournament in which the Comets won their first wrestling title and every grappler made it to state, Fatima finished last week’s …

Lady Comets come up short against Tolton, earn second in C3D8 tournament

Fatima entered the C3D8 tournament at South Callaway last week as the top seed, but Fr. Tolton managed to upset the Lady Comets in Saturday’s championship game, 57-53. “It was a very …

Comets finish second in districts

Fatima battled back from an early deficit but couldn’t quite get over the hump in a 56-46 loss in the Class 3, District 8 tournament at Belle. “We are still scratching our heads …
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UD Around the World

UD Around the World

Members of the Stamp family recently traveled to the inside passage of Alaska to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of former Osage County residents Mike and Gloria Wildhaber. They explored …

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Opinion

Daily poison hidden in your food

Today, the typical American adult is overweight with 35 percentage considered obese. In 1970, about 15 percentage of Americans were considered obese. Why are Americans less healthy? First is …

Speed limit signs

  To the Editor: Thank you Alderman Bill Turner for finally getting the speed limit signs installed on Jefferson Street. Now we just need a police department to enforce them. Without …

Response to column from Senator Brown

To the Editor: Last week Senator Ben Brown wrote an article in this paper and flat out said that he does not care about our voices. Unfortunately, some people will believe every word he …