By Dennis Minich Harrisonville City Administrator Brad Ratliff closed his report at last week’s board of aldermen meeting with a simple forecast for the coming year, telling everyone to be ready to […]
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Obituaries
Dona FarberDec. 18, 1933 – Dec. 18, 2020 Dona, affectionately called Doni by her friends, was born Dec. 18, 1933, in Greenfield, Iowa, at her family’s home on Depot Street. Her parents […]
Here’s to a better year, decade ahead
Tonight marks not only the end of a year, but a decade. As a few hard-core timekeepers, like myself, keep pounding away, the year 2020 was not the first year of the […]
Wildcats come up short against Center
By Christopher Tenpenny The Harrisonville Wildcats boys’ basketball team fell to Center on Dec. 17 in the semifinals of the Missouri River Valley Conference (MRVC) Tournament, 70-64 at Harrisonville. Both teams look […]
A poet’s Christmas lament
“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day*” is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem “Christmas Bells” by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem tells of Longfellow’s despair, upon hearing […]
Special memories remain of iconic Cass County farm
By Chance Chamberlain For decades families have loaded into their vehicles to go to a Christmas tree farm to choose the perfect tree to place in the living room. Christmas Tree Lane […]
Obituaries
John Mark AlleyNov. 20, 1931 – Dec. 11, 2020 John Mark Alley died peacefully at his home Dec. 11 while taking an afternoon nap and watching “Bonanza” with his beloved wife of […]