Thursday, September 21, 2023
Volume 151, No. 38 - Princeton, MO 64673
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CJD parade grand marshals
Mercer school board hires 21st Century grant staff District gets separate grant to help faculty, staff pay for tuition, certification help PRESTON COLE Princeton Post-Telegraph
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The Shoot-Out Gang, a group of local residents of all ages, has been entertaining audiences during Calamity Jane Days for at least 30 years. They were recognized as the 2023 grand marshals of the CJ Days parade on Saturday.
MERCER A number of persons were employed for next summer’s 21st Century Grant program during the North Mercer County R-3 Board of Education meeting on Sept. 11. Persons who work before school and after school as part of the program saw their salary increased from $20 to $24 per hour. Those employed include: • Kim Palmer - program di-
rector. • Wade Hall - fiscal director, site director, data entry. • Aimee Huse - site director. • Jennifer Wilson - data entry, bookkeeper. • Sherri Barker - after school staff. • Randi Girdner - after school staff, before school staff. • Debra Goodman - after school staff, summer staff. • Tara Jones - after school staff, after school tutoring. • Mikayli Purvis - after school staff, before school staff. • Jamie Robinson - after
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school staff. • Courtney Scroggie - after school staff, after school tutoring. • Greg Frost - before school staff. • Doug Eldridge, summer staff. • Beth Boxley, Einstein Workshop. All votes were unanimous, 5-0 decisions. Four board members were in attendance, and board president Ervin Taff participated via telephone. See Mercer school, Page 8
Goodin receives 2023 Princeton Outstanding Alumni Award
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Progress on Princeton’s ballfields project has picked up rapidly in recent days, including the installation of outfield fences on the softball (front) and baseball (top) fields, concrete for areas where dugouts and bleachers to be placed (plus around the concesstion stand/restrooms/storage building (center, right), and infield dirt on the two main fields. More work needs to be done in order for the Princeton High School softball Tigers to be able to use their new facility for the first time next Monday, Sept. 25. Council during its Sept. 11 meetgiven about hazard Council takes Updates ing. mitigation plan, beer garden The items included trash bids, proposals for a new well, and new no action on No action was taken meters. on three financial items that were three quotes presented to the Princeton City PRESTON COLE
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1976 Princeton graduate Bill Goodin was recognized as the 2023 PHS Outstanding Alumni recipient Saturday morning by the PHS Alumni Association. Goodin is now in his 43rd year at Princeton High School as a coach and/or teacher; he’s currently teaching junior high history and coaching varsity cross country. Goodin is the winningest basketball coach in Tiger history with 500 wins, is the only girls coach to lead Princeton to a district championship (13) and the accompanying state tournament berth (including two Show-Me Showdown appearances), and was inducted into the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame in 2012.
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