2007 In Review
 

Due to complications in meeting some Corps of Engineer requirements, the bridge that spans the Wyaconda River south of Kahoka on the county road leading to Neeper, building a new bridge took longer than expected. But local officials celebrated the opening of the bridge on Tuesday afternoon, with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Cutting the ribbon was Bonnie Brewer, wife of the late Clark County Presiding Commissioner Eddie Brewer. The new bridge is an 80 / 20 matching funds bridge with 80 percent coming from state and federal funds and the remaining funded by the county through an in kind match, which includes funds as well as labor. 80% of the cost of the bridge came to a total of $493,000.

Clark County R-1 students will not undergo random drug testing, after the issue failed on a 3-4 vote at last Thursday’s meeting of the CCR-1 Board of Education meeting.
The topic had been introduced early in the year, following concerns expressed to at least one school board member by an area resident.

The City of Kahoka will be getting an unexpected windfall from U.S. Cellular.  Kahoka will receive a settlement of $81,243.02 for two years of past business license and tax fees.  The city previously settled with Verizon Wireless for approximately $4000.

“He has a plan in place to shore up the building,” Clark County Commissioner C.W. Higbee said. 

Wendy Ray of Kahoka, MO has been hired by the University of Missouri as a Family Nutrition Education Program Assistant. She began her duties on November 19 and will be headquartered at the Clark County Extension Office.  The Family Nutrition Extension Program (FNEP) is grant funded by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide…

Tom Brokaw coined the phrase "The Greatest Generation" (in his book entitled the same) in reference to the generation of Americans that served their country in W.W.II.  A generation of Americans that were born during or after W.W.I, that were children in the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s.