Pig-Pig's days inside the city limits numbered
Miss Piggy might think Pig-Pig's kinda cute, but Orrick Aldermen want him to take his good looks elsewhere. Like outside the city limits.
View ArticleSpring storm churns up at least 4 tornadoes across Missouri
The National Weather Service sent a crew to the hard hit areas to evaluate damage. Those crews have found four confirmed tornado tracks including an EF-0 in Clinton and another EF-0 at Lawson.
View ArticleElevation key to Internet for rural areas
Aside from an airplane, there's no better view of Orrick and the surrounding area than from the platform on top of the grain elevator on South Front Street. The same is true of the elevator in Floyd, a...
View Article'Long-term closure' possible for Hwy. T
The road that's closed - and it's closed indefinitely - is Ray County Route T, which runs south from Richmond and then west through Camden and Fleming to Orrick. The sloping edges along the road were...
View ArticleIssue with specs blocks Orrick school roof
A misunderstanding has resulted in the new roofing project at the Orrick school to be put on hold. By a 6-0 vote the Orrick Board of Education rejected all the bids Monday night to replace the...
View ArticleHenrietta Baptist, Orrick tornado victims aided in Baptist outreach
The heavens opened last week, but not to honor volunteers who scaled heights to put a new roof on Henrietta First Baptist Church. The volunteers included 12 to 15 church members, as well as roving...
View ArticleMarrant goes the distance for $1,500 CMS payday
The weather finally cooperated for racing at Central Missouri Speedway on a Saturday evening as temperatures soared into the nineties for KMZU 100.7 FM 'The Farm' night at the races. Fans were...
View ArticleChurch helps officer, daughters run with 5K benefit
Organizer Phil Boude, an Orrick police officer, said this Thursday's preregistration on the stage on South Front Street will assure that runners and walkers receive shirts in the right size. His...
View ArticleMarie Katherine Cox
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 27, at Grace Pentecostal Church in Kingsville with the Rev. Gary Hackett officiating.
View ArticleTrain collision sends BNSF truck driver to hospital
A railroad dump truck apparently headed to a worksite collided with a train engine while the truck driver attempted to cross a railroad track Tuesday. The accident occurred at about 10:44 a.m. at a...
View ArticleBearcats honing gridiron skills
The Bearcats started their latest junior high and varsity summer football camp on Monday. The evening camp will conclude Friday on the Orrick R-XI campus.
View ArticleTornado-damaged complex crumbling, awaiting federal aid
The company that manages Orrick's River Bend apartments is awaiting action by government agencies on its proposals to rebuild a complex closed since being struck by a tornado in May 2014. The complex,...
View ArticleSoaked fields hamper soybean planting season
The 2015 growing season has been so wet that even in late July more than a few Ray County fields lay barren where soybeans should've been. Orrick-area farmer Tom Waters intended to grow more beans this...
View ArticleBond reduction denied, case bound over in DWI death
After accomplishing the two legal goals they'd set out for, family members and the prosecution hugged and shed tears outside the courtroom. But having defendant Carey Jones's case bound over to circuit...
View ArticleJerry Outersky, Jr.
Jerry was born Dec. 26, 1928, in Richmond, to Jerry and Lorena Outersky, Sr. He married Bonnie J. Brixey, of Pomona, Nov. 8, 1952; she survives of the home. Additional survivors include: one son, Frank...
View ArticleA student, teacher of life, not done yet
Aurelia Swafford, a teacher who spent most of her career in Ray County, turned 104 Aug. 4 looking hale and hearty enough to still fill a chalkboard with numbers. "We were just talking to her about her...
View ArticleBobcats pull away from Orrick
The Orrick Bearcats were within a touchdown of visiting Braymer Friday night in the season opener for both schools, but the Bobcats scored the final 28 points as they left town with a 46-12 victory....
View ArticleArea drivers injured in weekend accidents
On Sept. 5, Orrick resident Brandon K. Good, 19, was seriously injured at around 3 a.m. in a one-car accident two miles north of Holt, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
View ArticleBobcats pull away from Orrick
The Orrick Bearcats were within a touchdown of visiting Braymer Friday night in the season opener for both schools, but the Bobcats scored the final 28 points as they left town with a 46-12 victory....
View ArticleTornado damage, blighted homes prompt Orrick alderwoman to say, 'I've had...
Roof tarps and plastic-covered windows remain 16 months after the 2014 tornado damaged this home in the 200 block of Floyd Road in Orrick. A neighboring resident came to the board of aldermen meeting...
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