News – Thursday, December 26th 2024

KSMO Media is proud to announce the winners of the Big Family Christmas Giveaway at Southtown Furniture and Terrill’s Complete Auto Care, and the Kid’s Christmas Giveaway at Aaron’s Rent-to-Own and Jet Tires and Auto. In the Big Family Christmas Giveaway, the winners of merchandise valued over $2,500 were Laylah McGraw at Southtown Furniture and Kate McBride at Terrill’s Complete Auto Care. The winner of Kids’ Christmas Giveaway was Becca Counts at Jet Tires and Auto, while Jonathan Stroot was the winner drawn at Aaron’s Rent-to-Own. KSMO Media congratulates these winners and thanks all those who entered the contest. They also want to thank this year’s sponsors for making it possible to hold these contests here in Salem. Merry Christmas to all from KSMO Media!

The Salem Memorial Hospital Board of Directors will hold their regular meeting Monday evening at 7:00 in the hospital library. At the meeting, the Board will review and approve minutes from the October Special meeting and the November regular meeting, before they hear the report from CEO Brooke Bollman. The Board will then hear the summary of operations and statistics for the month of November, be updated on the 340B program, hear the Chief Nursing Officer report, and be updated on Human Resources before hearing a report on quality information. The Board will address old business followed by new business that includes candidate filing update, Finance Committee members, and Board meeting dates. The board may then vote to go into closed session. The Salem Memorial Hospital Board of Directors meeting Monday night at 7:00 at the hospital library is open to the public. To attend the meeting electronically, contact the hospital administration office at 729-6626, extension 4005.

The Dent County Commission held their regular meeting Monday morning at the Dent County Courthouse. In the road report, District 1 Commissioner Wes Mobray said rock would be added and grading was being done on Dent County Roads 5150, 5170 and 5130; while only brush was going to be cut on county road 5600. District 2 Commissioner Gary Polk stated rock would be added and grading was being done on Dent County Roads 4290 and 4340. Presiding Commissioner Gary Larson said the county needed to address available positions on the Enhanced Enterprise Zone Board that are five-year terms. Larson said both Dustin Howard and Daniel Salyer agreed to be re-appointed and the commission approved their re-appointment. Dent County Clerk Angie Curley said she continues to work on the 2025 county budget. She said the courthouse would be closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She also wanted to remind all vendors to have their invoices and statements submitted Monday morning, December 30th, if they want to have them paid this year. Starting in January, the only payments the county can make is payroll until their budget is approved. If you have questions, please contact the county clerk’s office at 729-4144. At 10:00, bids were opened for county surplus property. Billy Shepherd had the highest bid for the 1997 Dodge 1500 4×4 pickup at $1,226, and $75 for the air compressor. Jason Akins had the high bid for the Salt Dog Salt Spreader at $500. Mike Elliott from Town and Country Insurance was in to review vehicle and building coverage for the county as the commissioners have elected to reduce the coverage on all the older road and bridge department and other county vehicles to liability only to help save some money. This does NOT include any of the sheriff’s department vehicles. The commission also doubled the coverage from $50,000 to $100,000 on the contents of the road and bridge department building. Elliott will make the requested changes to help reduce the premium that came in at $272,000 from Tokio Marine HCC. The next meeting of the commission will be Thursday morning at 9:00 and it will be open to the public.

Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows deer hunters harvested 14,607 deer during the late antlerless portion of firearms deer season, December 7th through 15th. Top harvest counties were Pike with 477 deer harvested, Callaway with 391, and Lincoln with 382. In our area Crawford County harvest was 110, Dent 125, Maries 86, Phelps 79, Reynolds County 66, Shannon County harvest total was 80, and Texas County totaled 147. This year’s harvest total was down from last year’s late antlerless portion harvest total of 18,916 and slightly (4%) below the previous five-year average. For current ongoing preliminary harvest totals by season, county, and type of deer, visit the MDC website at mdc.mo.gov. Archery deer hunting continues through January 15th, 2025. The alternative methods portion will run December 28th through January 7th, 2025. Get more information on Missouri deer hunting from online at mdc.mo.gov.