City Life event brings out local residents' artistic side
A large crowd gathered Saturday at Glen Miller Park's band shell to take part in the second City Life event of the summer.
View ArticlePostcards: Museum history, personal roots date to geneaology group's founding
I think by now everyone knows that I spend a lot of my time at the Ray County Museum.
View ArticleEverett Jefferson "E.J" Foster, Jr.
Everett Jefferson "E.J" Foster, Jr., 91, of Richmond, died Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 at Shirkey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond. E.J. was born Dec. 17, 1922, in Hardin, to Everett Jefferson...
View ArticleCity's sewer treatment plant project near completion
He pulled up Public Work Superintendent Dale Shipp's text message with that date and time. After six years, two voter-approved bond issues, grants and loans from USDA, Richmond's $11.3 million...
View ArticleRobert Mayden Hileman
Robert Mayden Hileman, 90, of Jefferson City, died Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, at North Care Hospice House in North Kansas City, Mo. Robert was born Oct. 25, 1924, in Ray County, the son of Harvey McKemy...
View ArticleLexington-based TurboNet courts Hardin to be Internet provider
Perhaps best known for having the naming rights to CenturyLink Field in Seattle, the Louisiana-based company is Hardin's lone Internet service provider. But during last Wednesday night's general...
View ArticleIvan Rhodes Hogan
Ivan Rhodes Hogan, 89, of Hardin, died Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, at North Kansas City Hospital in North Kansas City, Mo. Ivan was born Feb. 27, 1925, in Hardin, to John Curtis and Vera Faye Hogan.
View ArticleMary LaVerne Anderson
Mary LaVerne Anderson, 78, of Richmond, died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, at North Care Hospice House in North Kansas City, Mo. LaVerne was born Feb. 14, 1936, in Hamilton, Ohio to Albert and Mary Richardson.
View ArticleViola Maxine Heil
Viola Maxine Heil, 92, of Richmond, died Sunday, March 8, 2015 at NorthCare Hospice House in North Kansas City, Mo. Vi was born Dec. 2, 1922, in Rockingham, to James R. and Ida M Halterman, Sr. She...
View ArticleDorena Faye "Dot" Crosby
Dorena Faye "Dot" Crosby, 72, of Hardin, died Friday, June 5, 2015, at North Kansas City Hospital, North Kansas City, Mo. Survivors include: two sons, Norman Ray Crosby and Lester Paul Crosby, both of...
View ArticleHardin truck, tractor pull returns
Tractors will be spinning wheels, pulling wheelies and belching diesel smoke again July 25 when Hardin-Central Young Farmers resume the Annual Truck and Tractor Pull after a two-year hiatus. Tractor...
View ArticleCharles Tilton Acree
Charles Tilton Acree, 76, of Richmond, died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, at his home due to complications of an illness.
View ArticleOne story is worth a thousand miles
Richmond's new cab drivers are going to have to log a whole lot of miles before they have stories to match the tales Luann Norris tells. A couple decades back - the 86-year-old isn't exactly sure when...
View ArticleEleanor Rose Foster
Eleanor Rose Foster, 74, of Lexington, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at River Bend Heights Care Facility, Lexington. Eleanor was born Nov. 19, 1941, the daughter of Harold...
View ArticleRCMH donates extrication equipment to fire departments
The Ray County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees gave a Christmas gift to area fire departments. The trustees voted to provide each department with equipment used to rescue victims trapped in grain...
View ArticleRichard Alan 'Rick' Oyler
Richard Alan "Rick" Oyler, 62, of Hardin, died Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. Rick was born July 19, 1953, in Gettysburg, S.D., to Vernon Wayne and...
View ArticleJacob Wayne Minnick
Jacob Wayne Minnick, 88, of Richmond, formerly of Hardin, died Monday, Feb. 08, 2016, at North Kansas City Hospital, North Kansas City, Mo. Wayne was born April 27, 1927, near Hardin, to Joseph Gilbert...
View ArticleBenjamin A. 'Bennie' Lawson
Benjamin A. "Bennie" Lawson, 92, of rural Hardin, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, at NorthCare Hospice House, North Kansas City, Mo. Bennie was born July 1, 1923, in Braymer, to John and Pearl Lawson.
View ArticleJohn W. Lowman Sr.
John W. Lowman Sr., 86, of Brighton, Ill., formerly of Hardin and Kansas City, Mo., died Tuesday, March 22, at North Kansas City Hospital, North Kansas City, Mo. John was born April 13, 1929, in...
View ArticleLeslie Scott Holman
Leslie Scott Holman, 50, of Liberty, formerly of Hardin, died Thursday, June 2, 2016, at Ashton Court Care and Rehabilitation Center, Liberty. Survivors include: his father and step-mother, Eddie and...
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