Local News – Friday, August 27th, 2021
The Salem Board of Aldermen held a special meeting Thursday night at the City Hall Council Chambers. Mayor Kim Steelman nominated Kayla Sisco to fill the open East Ward aldermanic seat and the board approved the nomination unanimously. After Sisco took the oath of office, the board voted unanimously to name Alderman Kevin James as the President of the Board. The meeting was then adjourned.
The Salem Police Department has released their report for the month of July. They served nine summonses to appear in court, gave out 43 warning tickets, and six traffic tickets, plus they served 11 fugitive warrants and one city warrant. The department investigated 17 traffic accidents, had two ambulance assists, wrote two property damage reports, 13 stealing reports, and investigated a forgery. The department investigated three driving while having a license revoked or suspended charges, one resisting or interfering with an arrest charge and conducted two death investigations. The police investigated two charges of possession of a controlled substance, one charge of a minor in possession of intoxicants as well as three domestic violence reports, one trespassing report, and a report of tampering. The department investigated three cases of leaving without paying at the gas pump, one intoxicated driver and two intoxicated pedestrians charges, and responded to ten assaults or fights and 31 animal calls. The department drove 7,911 miles during the month and served four hours as court bailiff. The department had 884 calls for service and 36 walk-ins to the station. During the month of July, the police arrested 13 males and 12 females.
Missouri deer and turkey hunters can get the most current information on upcoming fall hunting from the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) 2021 Fall Deer and Turkey Hunting & Regulations Information booklet which is now available. The 2021 Fall Deer and Turkey Hunting & Regulations Information booklet has detailed information on fall deer and turkey hunting seasons, limits, permits, managed hunts, regulations, conservation areas to hunt, post-harvest instructions, chronic wasting disease (CWD) updates, and more. The new booklet also has information on changes for the upcoming seasons. This includes the counties of Camden, Laclede, McDonald, and Pulaski being added to the CWD Management Zone; on November 13th and 14th, hunters who harvest a deer in the CWD Management Zone must take it (or the deer head) on the day of harvest to a CWD sampling station; the antler point restriction has been removed for Pulaski County; hunters may now fill one firearms antlerless permit in Reynolds County; qualifying landowners may now receive two Resident Landowner Firearms Antlerless Deer Hunting Permits in Dent, Phelps and Texas counties; hunters without hunter education may now participate in most managed deer hunts, but they must hunt in the presence of a properly licensed adult hunter who is hunter-education certified or exempt. The 2021 Fall Deer and Turkey Hunting & Regulations Information booklet is available where permits are sold or online at mdc.mo.gov.
There will be a University of Missouri Grazing School at the MU Wurdack Research Center September 22-24 at Cook Station, Missouri. To enroll or for more information contact Nathan Bilke online at nathan.bilke@usda.gov or call (660) 654-4576 or contact Gatlin Bunton online at buntong@missouri.edu or call (573) 775-2135. There will also be a Grazing School in Houston September 15-17. Call the Texas County Extension Office at (417) 967-4545.