With school out for the summer, the East Buchanan C-1 School District has started some of the preliminary work for its $2.2 million improvements project, including breaking ground on the new track at the high school.

The woman who admitted to stealing approximately $286,000 from the Plattsburg Special Road District has been sentenced in U.S. District Court.

Bond has been set and posted in the case of the Gower man charged in the death of his young son.

The East Buchanan FFA of Gower, Dairy Cattle Judging Team, will represent Missouri in the National FFA Contest which will be held next fall in Kansas City, MO.
The Dairy Cattle Judging Team won the right to represent Missouri in the National Contest by first qualifying in the Northwest Missouri District Contest in which they placed first. The top 60 teams from the six districts competed in the state contest. East Buchanan also took first place honors in the state contest held in Columbia and won the right to represent Missouri in the national contest.
Members of the team are: John Kline, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Kline, Agency; Danny McPhee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed McPhee, Hemple; Charles Grier, son of Mr and Mrs. Charles Grier, Gower; and Wayne Grier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Grier, Hemple. The team was coached by Harold Sherwood, vocational agriculture instructor at East Buchanan High School, Gower, MO.

For the first time in two years, local graduations will go on as originally scheduled.

Miss Bess Gant has been a member of Chapter DF PEO for 50 years. A reception was held in her honor last Thursday evening at Oakridge with representatives of the chapter present. She was presented a pearl 50 year pin by the chapter president, Mrs. Emmett Fulkerson.

The Gower Beaver Club is very proud to report that it's Research and Deep Thought Department headed by the Amazing Dr. G.D. Hughes has accomplished a medical break-through. The results are documented with the photos above. 

The Clinton County R-III School District has found the next head coach of the Plattsburg Tigers football team.

The district has tabbed Brandon Boswell as the program’s next leader, replacing the outgoing Ross Rosenbaum, who is set to leave the district at the end of the school year. Boswell will be Plattsburg’s fifth head coach in six years.

Jim Myers of Easton lost his battle with kidney cancer Friday, April 16. Friends and family are planning a fundraiser for Jim Myer’s family on Saturday, May 1 at 4 p.m. 

By Brett Adkison | Leader Editor.

 The man who led Lathrop football to its most successful period in school history has announced his resignation.