Youth golf camp tees off at Mozingo
By KENNY LARABEE Sports Editor Jun 6, 2016 Maryville Daily Forum With sunny skies and pristine stretches of green awaiting them, area youth took to the Watson 9 at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park to learn about the game of golf Saturday in the first of four youth camps scheduled for this summer. The three-day camps, […]
Ground broken for Mozingo lake center
By JIM FALL Executive editor Maryville Daily Forum “It’s been a long time coming,” Maryville City Manager Greg McDanel said Wednesday as he watched heavy equipment operators from the city’s Street Department and Mozingo Lake Recreation Park grounds crew move earth in preparation for construction of a new city-owned conference center and golf course clubhouse. […]
High hopes: Lettuce Dream breaks ground
By TONY BROWN Staff writer Maryville Daily Forum Maryville’s business and civic leaders turned out in force Friday for a groundbreaking ceremony marking the recent start of construction for Lettuce Dream, a community-based effort to create a hydroponic greenhouse complex that is to provide vocational training for people with developmental and cognitive disabilities. When phase […]
Fundraiser sets stage for Watson 9 opener
By TONY BROWN Staff writer Maryville Daily Forum No question that Monday was a big night for Mozingo Lake Recreation Park as city officials took the wraps off conceptual drawings for a proposed $4 million conference center and hotel complex to be located on a scenic hilltop overlooking the Sechrest 18 and Watson 9 golf […]
Construction now a reality for Lettuce Dream
Maryville Daily Forum – Tony Brown Construction of the proposed Lettuce Dream hydroponic greenhouse complex, envisioned as providing vocational training for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities, is under way and on track for completion this summer, according to Wayne Pierson, vice president of the non-profit organization established four years ago by a group […]
Maryville recognized among nation’s top micropolitan areas
Maryville was recognized by Site Selection magazine recently as one of its top 10 micropolitan areas of 2015, a ranking that signifies it had the nation’s 10th most expansion projects last year among all qualifying U.S. towns (10,000 – 50,000 population). Maryville, which was the smallest community to be recognized on the top 10 list, […]
NCED to receive $425,000 in small business loan funds
By TONY BROWN Staff writer Maryville Daily Forum March 2, 2016 Nodaway County Economic Development, a non-profit agency that, among other tasks, seeks to help local businesses expand while recruiting new enterprises to the area, offered some good news Tuesday for would-be entrepreneurs and existing small-business owners. NCED Executive Director Josh McKim said the agency […]
Nixon spotlights Northwest, Kawasaki vets’ program
By TONY BROWN News editor Maryville Daily Forum Posted on Dec 3, 2015 Gov. Jay Nixon visited Northwest Missouri State University on Wednesday to officially announce more than $6.8 million in state “deferred maintenance” funding awarded earlier this fall that will be used to improve campus facilities. In addition, Nixon also visited the Kawasaki Motors […]
MARYVILLE BUSINESS COMMUNITY WELCOMES WELLS BANK TO TOWN
Nodaway News Leader Thursday, October 15, 2015 Amid local subcontractors pouring concrete footings, officials from Wells Bank of Platte City ramped up their Maryville construction project by hosting a groundbreaking ceremony on October 13 at the 2920 South Main site. The new bank, a 3,600-square-foot building, is slated to open in the spring of 2016. […]
Maryville makes ‘Safest College Towns’ list
Tony Brown, Maryville Daily Forum Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2015 7:57 am Maryville has been chosen as one of the “50 Safest College Towns in America” in an online listing compiled by SafeWise, a web-based company that markets home security systems and security consulting services. Ranked No. 32, Maryville was the only Missouri city on the […]