Everyone likes gift cards — especially, it turns out, scammers.
A gift card is like cash — a quick, convenient and untraceable way for con artists to get peoples’ money. And even if the victim realizes they've been scammed, there's typically no way to reverse the transaction.
The Attorney General’s...
The Caldwell County Newspaper is raffling off a packet of five tickets to the 2016 Kansas City Renaissance Festival!
The raffle will run until Sept. 24. The winner will be contacted the following Monday. Entries can be purchased at the Caldwell County Newspaper office at 101 S. Davis in Hamilton,...
Kidder met for their regular session on Aug. 11. Board members present were Dave McEwen, Steve Grooms, and Chris Bratcher. Alderman Ray Garton was absent. City Clerk Richard Evans, Mayor George Bauer and Lucille Lusk, the new code enforcement officer, were also present. The board began their...
The 57th Annual New York Reunion was held on Sunday, August 14, 2016, at the Hamilton United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Over 50 high school and elementary school graduates, former students, teachers and friends attended and enjoyed the basket dinner and visiting. Pictured are the 1956 NYHS...
Braymer C-4 School welcomed three new teachers to the district this year. Left to right: Tina Praiswater will be teaching first grade; Erica Coats will teach seventh through twelfth social studies; and Donald Heaton is the new band instructor.
“Making the best better” for generations of Missouri 4-H Club members, Dorothy Silvey of Hamilton was inducted into the Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame on Aug. 13 at State Fair Community College in Sedalia.
She was among 54 inductees from 40 counties establishing a legacy totaling 1,594 years of service...
Farmers should scout cornfields now for anthracnose and other stalk rots.
University of Missouri Extension corn specialist Greg Luce says stalk rots, including anthracnose, charcoal, diplodia and fusarium, can be found to some extent in cornfields across much of the state.
Scout fields before corn...
The right tools and techniques can make gardening after 50 golden, says University of Missouri Extension horticulture specialist Todd Lorenz.
Gardening after 50 should not be “trowel and error,” he says.
Lorenz and Missouri AgrAbility Program state director Karen Funkenbusch suggest ways gardeners...
The 2016 Missouri Teen Safety Belt Survey is complete. The safety belt usage for all teenage drivers and teenage front seat passengers combined was 70.4 percent. This is a 1.4 percent increase when compared to 69 percent in 2015.
“We’re very excited to see these numbers go up,” said MoDOT Youth...
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The unique beauty and pleasing fragrance of carnivorous plants lure unwary prey into their clutches. From an insect’s point of view, carnivorous plants are lovely to behold until they grab hold.
To be classified as carnivorous, a plant must attract, capture, kill and digest its prey...