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March 2 Police Reports
This list is a sampling of crime in Sedalia and the surrounding area. Information is taken from official police reports, which do not necessarily contain statements from all parties involved in each...
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State Fair Community College event to benefit tech facility
A “Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon”-style lip sync battle and live auction will highlight the State Fair Community College Foundation’s annual fundraiser March 25 in the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose...
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Flowers ‘spring’ up in Sedalia
Daffodils wave in the cool breeze Thursday morning at the Missouri State Fair Highway Gardens. Sunshine and unseasonably warm weather is prompting many flowers and trees to bloom early this year....
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Democrat takes home four APME awards
The Sedalia Democrat news staff took home four awards Thursday, including two first place awards, from the Missouri Associated Press Managing Editor’s Contest for work published in 2016. The awards...
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Eddie Horn resigns from State Fair Community College
The State Fair Community College Board of Trustees accepted the resignation of men’s and women’s soccer coach Eddie Horn during Tuesday’s meeting. Horn will soon be announced as the the men’s assistant...
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Tom Knight and S-C soccer honored in Hall of Fame
If St. Louis is the birthplace of soccer in Missouri, count Tom Knight as one of the wise men who led Smith-Cotton to the promised land. Knight, activities director at Bunceton R-IV School, was...
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Round tables offer Smith-Cotton students chance to be heard
Smith-Cotton High School students have been having important and meaningful conversations about current issues this year, thanks to a new concept: Round Tables with Mr. Norton. Smith-Cotton Principal...
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Sedalia Park Board approves FY18 budget
The Sedalia Park Board approved its proposed Fiscal Year 2017-18 budget during Thursday night’s meeting. FY18 will mark the last $250,000 payment from the Sedalia Parks and Recreation Department to the...
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March 3 Police Reports
This list is a sampling of crime in Sedalia and the surrounding area. Information is taken from official police reports, which do not necessarily contain statements from all parties involved in each...
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40 & 8 donate to Healing Box
The 40 & 8 veteran organization and its members took a donation for the Healing Box Project and a check for $148 was presented by Curtis “Mo” Mokshefski, left, to Dave and CJ Dunklee of Gravois...
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When nature gets too close
Max and I have lived in our house for almost 27 years now. One of the reasons we bought the house is the back yard with its towering trees and flowering perennials. Years ago, we replaced an old summer...
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Wanted: A buyer for downtown’s ‘crown jewel’
The skyscraper age dawned in America in the mid-1880s, when the Home Insurance Co. of Chicago erected an astonishing 10-story office building. Sedalia built its more modest version about the same time,...
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All those springs ago
With the weather going from freezing to swimming pool weather all in the same week lately our seasonal body clocks have to be in a lot of turmoil. Fortunately the warmer temperatures seem to be...
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Sedalia Imaging Center assets sold to Bothwell Regional Health Center
Bothwell Regional Health Center announced last week it purchased the assets affiliated with the Sedalia Imaging Center located at 1430 Thompson Boulevard. The independent imaging center, which opened...
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Prescription drug monitoring program bill pending for Missouri
Doctors in every state but Missouri have the ability to check prescription drug information, but Missouri doctors are in the dark. However, pending legislation could change that. Two bills have been...
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Smith-Cotton Jazz Band to participate in competition Saturday
Jenna Northcutt, left, and Ashley Grotzinger play their saxophones during Jazz Band practice Friday afternoon at Smith-Cotton High School. The band was prepping for the Drury University Jazz Festival...
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Family hunting dogs
Happy, my almost 14-year-old beagle died a couple weeks ago, while the two of us were on a post hunting season stroll through some good-looking habitat. I’m not in the market for another beagle right...
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State Fair men and women end seasons at regional tournament
State Fair Community College men’s and women’s basketball were eliminated in the Region 16 Tournament on Friday at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, finishing its respective seasons. Crowder...
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March 4 Police Reports
This list is a sampling of crime in Sedalia and the surrounding area. Information is taken from official police reports, which do not necessarily contain statements from all parties involved in each...
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Updated: Otterville boy shot, killed Saturday
Cooper County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy in northeast of the Otterville. The Cooper County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a juvenile gunshot...
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