Owensville

City budget planning workshops underway

Published by The Republican on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 12:00pm

Owensville aldermen on Monday spent 90 minutes going over the first draft of the city’s 2018-19 fiscal year budget for public works services.

City Administrator Nathan Schauf guided the elected officials through a line-by-line review of proposed revenue and expenditures for the Water and Sewer account and Street funds.

Thank you ATF

Published by The Republican on Wed, 03/14/2018 - 11:01am

Owensville Middle School Prinicipal Teresa Schulte thanks an ATF K-9 handler for their help with a drug and weapons sweep conducted Monday. No weapons or drugs were detected at either OMS or the high school or on the OHS parking lot. City Marshal Robert Rickerd (left, on right) looks on with Schulte following a sweep of the sixth-grade hallway. Three ATF K-9 handlers participated in the sweep.  See page 2 for a message from Rickerd.

Suspected ‘rekindle’ destroys old Tea store

Published by The Republican on Wed, 03/14/2018 - 11:00am

Harold Wilkerson was showering early  Saturday morning in the early 1900s home he shared on Tea Road with his wife, Christine, and their two young children when an attic fire broke out.

She had smelled a “dead animal smell”  earlier and had even gone into her daughter’s room to make sure no spoiled food was stashed somewhere. 

‘Addi’s Army’ rocks it

Published by The Republican on Wed, 03/07/2018 - 11:25am

A fifth and sixth-grade volleyball tournament Saturday at Owensville High School was expected to raise $18,000 for an Owensville girl, 4, undergoing brain cancer treatment. Addison Floyd (waving to spectators, above) and her parents, Jennifer and Bill, are introduced before the start of the sixth-grade tournament by Cindy Dyer (far right). The girl’s great-aunt, Kathy Echols, is also pictured. “It was awesome. It was amazing,” said Echols of the outpouring of support.

R-2 students would need permission to participate in March 14 walk-out honoring Florida shooting victims

Published by The Republican on Wed, 03/07/2018 - 11:23am

Superintendent Dr. Chuck Garner said Tuesday that he has not heard of any local students who would like to participate in the Women’s March’s Youth EMPOWER movement March 14 that encourages teachers, students, administrators, parents and allies to walk out for 17 minutes — one for every person killed at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida.

Stern advice from local man being treated for colon cancer — get screening now

Published by The Republican on Wed, 03/07/2018 - 11:21am

An Owensville man with a love of golf and organizing tournaments to benefit community civic groups has a simple message for anyone over the age of 50.

Get a colonoscopy.

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and Mark Lough wants to share his message. 

“The most important thing is they get a screening,” said Lough. “Don’t be stupid and wait too long like I did. I’m dying because of it.”

Gregory first-degree murder trial set for Sept. 11-13

Published by The Republican on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:48am

Toby Franklin Gregory is scheduled for a jury trial in September 2018 for the August 2016 murder of his estranged wife, Inez Christilina “Nessa” (Tulk) Gregory outside an Owensville motel.

Gregory remains jailed in Steelville on a $500,000 cash only bond following his arrest after he was released from medical care required after apparently attempting to take his own life on the night of Aug. 4. He failed in that attempt and instead shot himself in the chin and mouth.

Governor’s indictment overshadows county GOP Lincoln Day festivities

Published by The Republican on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:47am

State Sen. Mike Kehoe was one of the few ranking Republican senators remaining in the Capitol on Thursday afternoon after adjournment for the weekend — the day news broke about the felony grand jury indictment handed down against Gov. Eric Greitens.

“I walked out of my office and there were about eight cameras there,” said Kehoe on Saturday prior to the start of the Gasconade County Central Committee’s Lincoln Day banquet held at St. James United Church of Christ in the Charlotte community.

Rainfall on Monday makes for damp deliveries

Published by The Republican on Wed, 02/21/2018 - 11:02am

Dustin Christensen delivers beer in the rain Monday for Mullalay Distributing to Art’s Liquor. “Time to go inside and get dry for a bit,” said Christensen while wheeling in a final handcart of product. The area received much needed rainfall of at least four-tenths of an inch Monday. More was falling Tuesday with another half inch of rainfall recorded by sunset. Rain was expected throughout the night into Wednesday.

Chicago trip includes science-influenced museum, Fermilab tours

Published by The Republican on Wed, 02/21/2018 - 10:57am

A private donor’s support provided a group of Owensville High School students with a unique opportunity this week to tour the world-renowned Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and the historic Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the western suburbs.

Along the way, the students chaperoned by teacher Kevin Lay and their principal, Cindy Hawkins, experienced the Metra train service, Chicago-style pizza and a snowstorm along Lake Michigan.

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