Obituaries – Thursday, July 30th, 2020
KSMO Radio will be airing political interviews today and again tomorrow night by a number of the Republican candidates running in the 1st District Dent County Commissioner race, the 2nd District Dent County Commissioner race, the race for Public Administrator and the race for Dent County Assessor. All candidates in the contested races were asked to participate and some declined. The interviews were paid for by the candidates or their committees and are approximately 15 minutes in length. The interviews begin at 9:45 this morning with three Dent County District 1 Commissioner candidates in the order they are on the ballot. J.T. Fleener will be the first candidate followed by Phillip Mercer at about 10:10 and then by Justin Headrick at about 10:30. Dent County District 2 Commissioner Candidate Gary Larson can be heard starting about 10:50 in the morning. Later this afternoon at 1:30, the interview with Dent County Assessor Candidate Jamie Homeyer will begin and it will be followed by the two Dent County Public Administrator candidates. Sherida Cook’s interview will begin about 1:50 with the interview with Larry Edwards starting about 2:15. All the interviews will be streamed on www.ksmoradio.com live and will also be archived on You Tube for playback on demand. KSMO will re-air all the interviews a second time Friday night starting about 6:15 provided that the Cardinal baseball game with Milwaukee has been completed. If the game should go extra innings and run late, the interviews will begin immediately after the Cardinal Post Game show. The interviews will be played back in the same order as this morning consecutively with only short commercial interruptions and weather updates.
A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Salem will be held at the Community Center@the Armory located at 1200 West Rolla Road this evening at 7:00. After the call to order and roll call will be a hearing of persons including the Salem Industrial Development board and the AMI project implementation. The board may then go into closed session for discussion of personnel and contracts. The city of Salem board of aldermen meeting at 7:00 tomorrow evening is open to the public.
The Dent County Sheriff’s Office has released reports for Thursday, July 16th and Friday, July 17th. On the 16th, deputies responded to the 2000 block of Dent County Road 2460 for a report of two subjects trespassing on a property and in the possession of stolen property from a neighboring residence. While deputies were traveling to the residence, the subjects left in a vehicle and traveled toward West Highway 32. Deputies arrived in the area and after a short investigation, both subjects were located and arrested. The first subject, a 38-year-old Salem man was arrested for burglary in the 2nd degree and stealing. The second subject, a 27-year-old Belle man, was arrested for the possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana, burglary in the 2nd degree, possession of burglary tools and stealing. Both subjects were transported to the Dent County Sheriff’s Office Jail where they were incarcerated. Later that day, deputies traveled to a residence in the 1500 block of Dent County Road 4110 to serve an arrest warrant. During the course of incident, a 46-year-old Salem man was arrested for having an active warrant through Crawford County. The man was transported to the Dent County Sheriff’s Office Jail where he was incarcerated. On Friday, July 17th, a deputy conducted a traffic stop on Route E and Dent County Road 6435. During the course of the traffic stop, a 25-year-old Licking woman was arrested for the unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, a prior drug offense. The woman was transported to the Dent County Sheriff’s Office Jail where she was fingerprinted, issued a summons and released. If anyone has information about an ongoing investigation, please contact the Dent County Sheriff’s Department at 729-3241.
The City Administrative Offices at 4th and Iron Streets is performing interior renovations to improve customer service and security at the City Administrative Offices. The renovation is expected to be completed by October 2020. The updates will focus on two areas: the first being customer service and the second, safety. The City Administrative Office building hosts 11 employees in seven departments. In 2001, the City entered a lease/purchase agreement for the building and relocated the city offices from 202 N. Washington to 400 North Iron Street. City Administrator Ray Walden said a critical part of the project would be how residents and visitors take care of their utility needs, pay their bills, meet with staff and attend meetings. Consideration has also been given for a safe and secure environment for the public and staff according to Walden. Utility customers are encouraged to continue using the drive-through, drop box, and pay by phone options. Staff for all departments will be working during the renovations and anyone needing to meet face-to-face should contact that respective department. Money to pay for the project was included in the recently passed 2020-2021 budget. The project cost is approximately $75,000 budgeted out of the city’s one-half cent capital improvement sales tax fund.
The Salem R-80 Board of Education will hold a special meeting Monday, August 3rd at 5:30 the district administration offices boardroom. After approval of the agenda the board will address new business including approval of a COVID-19 plan, approval of the fuel bid and discuss MSBA training before adjourning. The Salem R-80 Board of Education meeting Monday evening is open to the public.