Thursday, March 21, 2024
Volume 152, No. 12 - Princeton, MO 64673
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Sports --------- 3-4 News --------- 6-12 Cainsville ------- 10 Opinion ----------- 5 Obituaries ----- 6-8 Princeton CC --- 12
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A grand day for the grand opening of Princeton’s new softball/baseball complex
PRESTON COLE/Princeton Post-Telegraph
A grand opening, complete with free food and a ribbon cutting ceremony, was held Friday afternoon before Princeton High School’s first baseball game at the new Russ Derry Sports Complex. Shown here are some of the many donors and work volunteers for the three-field complex in west Princeton who turned out for the ribbon cutting, sponsored by the Princeton Chamber of Commerce. Judy Derry Maloney (front, center, in NCMC baseball jersey), worked the ceremonial scissors for the event. The hometown Tigers defeated Penney (Hamilton) 9-4; details in Post-Telegraph Sports on Pages 3-4.
R-5 school board removes Powell as varsity FB coach Four members vote to not offer contract for 2024. He received teacher tenure contract, will coach track PRESTON COLE Princeton Post-Telegraph
PRINCETON, Mo. Princeton High School is looking for a high school football coach, following a decision by the R-5 Board of Education during its meeting last Monday night (March 11). Four of the board’s seven
members voted not to offer current head football coach Nathan Powell the positions of head coach, summer weights supervisor and football camp supervisor. Those members were Mitch Reger, Blake Boxley, Nathan Evans and Chad Smith. Ron Parsons and Karla Meinke voted to retain Powell, and Marcie Davis abstained due to nepotism rules. Powell was retained as head track coach for grades 7-12 and
senior class sponsor on a vote of 5-1-1, with Reger voting against and Davis abstaining. And, Powell’s teaching contract was renewed on a 5-1-1 vote, giving him tenure status; Evans voted against and Davis abstained. Other employment decisions The board accepted resignations from grades 7-12 science Mike Tipton and Title I teacher
sus’ followers. The Living Lord’s Supper production will be held
Sunday, March 24 at First Baptist Church in Bethany (302 North 22nd Street) at
See R-5 board, Page 10
Chamber of Commerce to hold Easter egg hunt Annual event scheduled for Saturday in Princeton’s city park
PRINCETON, Mo. The Princeton Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Easter egg hunt Saturday afternoon (March 23) at Levi Lowry Memorial Park in southeast Princeton. The event will begin at 3 p.m. with the arrival of the Easter Bunny. Children will then hunt for the special eggs in three age groups - age 0-4 years at 3:15 p.m., age 5-8 years at 3:20, and age 9-12 years at 3:25. The rain date is Sunday, March 24 at the same times.
FIND THIS INFORMATION INSIDE Division I Circuit Court outcomes - 9 Mercer school board hears dress concerns - 11 Mercer County Commission report - 11
Living Lord’s Supper to be presented at Bethany, Princeton and Zion churches next week Join us on that fateful night when Jesus gathered His disciples for their last supper with Him. Each of them had to wrestle with Jesus’ disturbing words, “One of you will betray me.” Based on Leonardo DaVinci’s painting, The Last Supper, that evening comes to life through the stories and songs of Je-
4 p.m.; Princeton First Christian Church, Friday, March 29 at 6 p.m.; and Zion Bap-
tist Church, east of Cainsville, Mo; Saturday, March 30 at 6 p.m. SUBMITTED PHOTO
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