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It’s time to elect 2025 extension council members, and voters will be given two options: online or using the traditional ballot boxes. Those will be located at either the Doniphan or Naylor branch of the Peoples Community Bank; Southern Bank of Doniphan; Bank of Grandin; Harps Grocery; Hoefer Feed; the Naylor Senior Citizens Center; Naylor Library, Tractor Supply, Doniphan Nutrition Center; the Extension office (inside the courthouse), Campbell Feed or Inman Feed. ...

A Doniphan man has been convicted for sexual exploitation of a minor after videoing a 15-year-old female while she was in the bathroom. According to a news release submitted last week by the Office of the US Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, Rayford Evans, 52, was found guilty by US District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig, during a one-day bench trial...

Acting on a tip that a man wanted on Ripley County warrants was spotted inside a convenience store, Doniphan Police Officer Derek Meyers was dispatched to that location, only to make a felony drug and firearms arrest on another suspect. Frankie Brewer, 34, of Doniphan was taken into custody Jan. 5 on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of a firearms...

Senior citizens who filed last year for property tax relief through SB190 thought that should have preempted them from the Doniphan R-I 85-cent “Proposition Teach” increase passed in 2023. They are now realizing that wasn’t the case. The fact is, although SB190 (and SB756, which modified it) have been more or less championed as placing a “freeze” on property taxes for seniors, the bill does not exempt them from any new levies or increases that will be passed. ...

The City of Naylor at one time employed its own full-time marshal, up and until the budget could no longer sustain the cost. However, during the Jan. 8 regular city council meeting, Ripley County Sheriff Rad Talburt presented a plan through which law enforcement presence may again be established in Naylor...

The federal REAL ID enforcement deadline of May 7, is less than four months away. Currently, 41 percent of the Missouri Department of Revenue’s total document holders have a REAL ID. While a final rule issued at the federal level allows federal agencies to utilize a phased-in approach to card-based enforcement for up to two years beyond the May 7 deadline, the Department is encouraging Missourians to be prepared for all possible scenarios...

The April 8 municipal election will be a chance for voters to maintain the status quo or possibly opt for a change in leadership in one or more public offices. The deadline for filing was Dec. 31; therefore, voters will select from the following candidates as they mark their ballots in April:...

Ripley County Commissioners met Jan. 15 for a fairly uneventful session, not yet having an approved 2025 budget. Subsequently, the meeting was brief; however, a few items were discussed and decisions made. One of those was to sign resolutions authorizing Ozark Foothills Regional Planning Commission to move forward with applications for grant money for two important projects...

Months of waiting are over for Naylor seniors, who with the help of community members and Naylor Ag students, spent the early part of the week moving into their brand new nutrition center.

Kara Phillips-Ritchey has had a 36-year love affair with softball, and she will soon put that passion to good use as the city’s new director of the summer ball park program. Doniphan City Council members approved Phillips-Ritchey’s appointment during their Jan. 7 meeting...