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By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post St. Joseph's Open Door Food Kitchen has been serving the hungry in the community since 1984. After originally starting at the Salvation Army, the Open Door Food Kitchen moved to 8th and Messanie, a location provided by the city. Marsha Rosenthal, President of the Board of Directors, says the kitchen serves many. "We feed approximately 4500 hungry men, women, and children per month which averages about 135,000 meals per year," Rosenthal tells KFEQ H...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post St. Joseph School District officials hope to bring back a popular summer school program. Superintendent Gabe Edgar says he has completed contract negotiations with Catapult Learning to bring back the program which incentivizes student attendance. Edgar says the experience working with Catapult over the last two years has been a positive one. "It's been a good experience, it was a good experience for our kids, and a lot of them need that remediation tim...

Photo courtesy of United Fiber By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostUnited Fiber, a subsidiary of United Electric Cooperatives which began in Savannah, is now expanding into St. Joseph.Niki Dalton with United Fiber says the company will likely spend more than $50 million to offer high-speed fiber broadband to 36,000 homes in St. Joseph."We've had a lot of demand and we've built out a lot of other communities," Dalton tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "We are ready to take on this big...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostTwo candidates for Buchanan County Presiding Commissioner offer different visions for economic development.Republican Scott Nelson says the county cannot promise one new company or one new job."And if someone promises you that then I would walk away, because you can't promise it," Nelson says during a recent candidate forum sponsored by the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce. "But what we can promise is to look at every proposal and most proposals co...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostA new state representative will take the new 2nd Missouri House District seat after the November 8th General Election. Mazzie Boyd/Photo by Brent Martin Political newcomer Mazzie Boyd of Hamilton upset incumbent State Rep. Randy Railsback in the Republican primary. Boyd says she wants to cut taxes."One of the things I'm really passionate about is reducing personal property taxes. I think right now, especially in our economy, it is dire that we start reduci...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Just as fast as the St. Joseph animal shelter is getting pets adopted, the pens are filling back up again with cats and dogs. So once again, Friends of the Animal Shelter is helping out with another adoption drive. Friends of the Animal Shelters Melanie Barnes says this one is going to be themed for the Halloween season. "It's the Adoption Spooktacular so we're going Halloween themed, Halloween is right around the corner and it's kind of fright...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Fall is here and with the colder weather also comes the beauty of the leaves on trees changing colors. Forester Lonnie Messbarger with the Missouri Department of Conservation in St. Joseph says if you are looking to see the fall colors in trees right now is the peak time. "We've had fall color for several weeks now, starting with the dogwoods and the sumac and the Virginia creeper vines, and then we move where cottonwoods and hackberries they'll tur...

St. Joseph School Superintendent Gabe Edgar/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostAn armed graduate of a St. Louis high school killed one student and a teacher Monday morning before police shot and killed him.Seven other students were shot and wounded at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.A deadly shooting so close to home worries any school administrator. And St. Joseph School Superintendent Gabe Edgar says that worry deepens because of the difficulty of preventing such random vi...

State Senate candidates speak at the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce candidate forum broadcast on KFEQ/Photo by Matt Pike By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri 34th Senatorial District incumbent, Republican Tony Luetkemeyer of Parkville, is being challenged in his re-election bid by political newcomer, Democrat Sarah Shorter of Kansas City.Luetkemeyer, in a St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce candidate forum, touts his record on fighting crime and bringing state money to the district in his bid to wi...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostAn elderly man died in a two-vehicle crash in St. Joseph Friday afternoon.St. Joseph police report a pick-up traveling west on Lovers Lane collided with another pick-up pulling out of Mount Olivet Cemetery, crashing into the driver's side. The driver of the pick-up pulling out of the cemetery, 87-year-old Donald Wilde, was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. Wilde died later at the hospital.The extent of injuries to the other driver has not been discl...