Smithville News

Smithville High School play director Catherine Warren told the Smithville Board of Aldermen that the high schoola s drama club would like to strengthen its ties with the community.

Here's something for the "He's got too much time on his hands" department. Roger Sigler, a retired Rural Electric employee living in Smithville, Mo., trains dogs to find deer antlers.

City of Smithville snow removal found its way into a Smithville R-II School District Board of Education meeting.

The Missouri Route KK bridge, just west of Smithville, will close Friday, March 5, for repairs and reopen by Thursday, April 8, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

Some Smithville residentsa TM reactions to the citya TMs snow removal made me realize: Maybe we journalists dona TMt always do a good job of making our own policies known.

A plan to replace the state income tax with a higher sales tax on more goods and services ran into strong opposition today when the idea came up for consideration in a state Senate committee.

An annual event that revolves around good food and good company has raised $25,000 in six years.

Sharon Zeurcher was supposed to be in Haiti right now. The 26-year-old missionary was scheduled to take her third trip to the country Jan.

Some city of Smithville leaders have said they'd like city residents to be more aware of the city's snow and ic removal policy.

Lebanon R-III School District of Lebanon, MO, has shown that, in tough economic times, smaller districts can benefit from advanced technology as much as large districts.

Ita s official: The Woodland Avenue sewer and street improvement project will happen.

A year and a half ago, the accident-prone intersection of Missouri Highway 92 and Commercial Avenue was often a nightmare for drivers.

Warren's theater days stem back to her time as a student at St. Charles High School in the St.

City of Smithville snow removal has been quite the topic in recent weeks. From city leaders to ordinary citizens, I've heard many questions, complaints and some compliments related to what city workers have and haven't done when it comes to getting snow off the streets.

A rare and treacherous snowstorm brought Smithville street condition frustrations.

Two more people filed for the city of Smithville mayor seat, bringing the number of candidates to three.

A woman driving a car past Darrell Spaeth's snow plow truck on Missouri Route F looked at Spaeth and insistently pointed down.

With all the talk about Smithville's snow removal performance, I wondered: What's it really like to be the guy in the truck plowing snow? So I went for a ride with one of the city's snow removal workers, Darrell Spaeth, for an hour Friday afternoon.

I'm officially on the twenty-ten bandwagon. I toyed with joining the two-thousand-and-ten camp, but it just didn't feel right.

Within the past week, the number of candidates for Smithville mayor, Board of Aldermen and Smithville R-II Board of Education has increased.