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Rhonda Vincent Coming to Trenton City Council Adopts Rhonda Vincent, Grand Ole Opry Star, Queen of Bluegrass and Missouri native will be appearing at the Trenton Performing Arts Center, 1415 Oklahoma Avenue in Trenton, on Thursday, September 7 at 7 p.m. The doors will open at 6 p.m. Advanced tickets are $25 each and may be purchased at Ron Dougan Insurance, Hy-Vee or Southern Bank. Tickets at the door will be $30. Rhonda will be available for a meet and greet at Hy-Vee from 3-4 p.m. the afternoon of the concert. During intermission of the concert, donated items will be auctioned, including an autographed guitar signed by Rhonda Vincent, Jeannie Seely, The Isaacs, Ricky Skaggs, Connie Smith and others; a $250 certificate for a tree from Rosemary Hill Tree Farm of Trenton; a $100 gift card from Pet Central in Trenton; and a dulcimer donated by Norris Polley of
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Trenton. For more information, contact Ron Dougan at 660-359-0100.
All proceeds from this event will benefit the Northwest Missouri Chapter of The Dream Factory.
FFDD Grant Request Forms Available Families and Friends of the Developmentally DisabledGrundy Co Senate Bill 40 currently has Grant Request forms available for the FY2024. Grant applications will be accepted until Monday, October 2, 2023 at 4:00 PM at the FFDD office located on the 1st floor of the Grundy County
Courthouse or by mail at P.O. Box 402, Trenton MO 64683. If you are interested in receiving an application please contact Kayla Graham, Executive Director at 660-359-7556 or 660-359-3285. Arrangements will be made to mail an application to you and/or your organization.
The Trenton City Council met in open session on Monday, August 14 2023 at 7:00 p.m., at City Hall. In attendance were Mayor Jackie Soptic; Council members William Fisher, Glen Briggs, Calvin Brown, Marvin Humphreys, Timothy Meinecke, David Mlika and John Dolan; City Attorney Tara Walker; City Administrator/Utilities Director Ron Urton; Police Chief Rex Ross and City Clerk Cindy Simpson. Absent from the meeting was City Council member Duane Urich. The minutes from the July 24, 2023 meeting were approved by the council. The council approved to pay all duly obligated bills. Members of the council moved onto reports from around the city. Council Member Calvin Brown reported concern about vandalism in the parks and
MSHPS Intern Wants to Bring Past to Life Submitted by Ronda Lickteig The Moore’s Settlement Historical Preservation Society might want to send a thank you note to Hannah Stark’s parents. If not for them, the local group might not have had an intern to help with research into how to preserve and
utilize a log cabin. Hannah said her parents, Aaron and Michelle, were pretty strict about what the family watched on television while she was growing up. She ended up watching a lot of documentaries and shows such as the Percy Jackson series, which she describes as a
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At right, a limestone well was recently discovered on the cabin property.
modern re-telling of the ancient Greek myths. Her interest in the “old” was piqued. “Anything pre-modern really caught my interest,” she said. The salutatorian of the Trenton High School Class of 2021, Hannah went on to Westminster College in Fulton, where she is double-majoring in museum studies and philosophy/religious studies and self-designing a minor in The Classics. That may sound daunting to some of us, but to Hannah, finding out that Westminster was moving the museum studies program from a minor to a major was music to her ears. “When I heard that I said to myself, ‘Well, I need to get on board with that immediately’,” she said. “As soon as they said it was up, I was on it. Hannah learned about the Moore’s Settlement group from her grandmother, Nancy George, who wondered if Hannah might have an interest in the group that is working to
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Trenton resident, Hannah Stark, has been serving as an intern with the Moore’s Settlement Historical Preservation Society, helping to research the best ways to protect and preserve an 1850’s log cabin located on property owned by Sarah Brown and her late husband, Tom.
restore an 1850’s log cabin located on property owned by Sarah Brown and her late husband, Tom. Tom, who had for decades used the cabin located adjacent to their house on West Fourth Terrace as an office,
had always said that underneath the siding was a genuine log cabin. He said it had been one of the first homes constructed in Trenton, known in the 1800s as Moore’s Settlement. After [See Intern, Page 2]
around the war memorial. There was discussion relating to the time the signs in the park currently read, and that the park board would like the council to change the signs and ordinance to read ‘from dusk to dawn accompanied by a parent’. Council member Marvin Humphreys then reported on the CVB board which discussed the roadside sale of animals and the fireworks ordinance. The discussion on the sale of on the roadside had no change. The discussion about the fireworks ordinance was asked to be changed so that on July 2-4 locals in the city of Trenton may shoot fireworks between the time of 8am and 10pm. And finally, Council member Glen Briggs brought to attention the flooding in the county. The Council then focused on the introduction of [See Council, Page 2]
BRIEFS Hickory Creek Bridge Open
The Grundy County Route W bridge over Hickory Creek is open following a bridge replacement project. Phillips Hardy, Inc., working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, began the project in April. Crews were able to reopen this section of Route W between Routes WW and F to all traffic on Friday, August 18. A separate, on-going project will continue to affect motorists who regularly use Grundy County Route W as safety improvements continue on Grundy County Route 6 at Route W, which includes the addition of a turn lane on Route 6. Access to and from Route W at Route 6 is currently closed. The project is expected to be complete, and intersection reopened in late September 2023.