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Aquatic Park. Courtesy city of St. Joseph. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostIt's been nearly a year since St. Joseph voters overwhelmingly showed their support for a half-cent sales tax increase to go toward major improvements for the city's parks and recreation facilities.St. Joseph parks director Chuck Kempf says one of the first projects on the list that's practically done now was repairing the roof at the Missouri Theater downtown."That's actually, probably, one of the f...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri lawmakers will be returning to Jefferson City this year to consider a tax cut proposal by Gov. Mike Parson.Parson proposed a change in the state income tax structure after vetoing a measure approved by the legislature that would have given most Missouri residents $500 tax rebates.Sen. Dan Hegeman of Cosby, the Senate Appropriations Committee chair, says he favored sending the checks to Missourians, but is open to the broader tax cut proposal."It's...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post An annual festival in Gower will celebrate and show off what makes small town life special. The 48th annual Gower Days will be held this weekend at the Gower City Park. Organizer Chip Holman says what makes Gower so special is simply the people that live there "The community, the school, the preachers like Randy and Seth at the Gower Baptist Church, it's the people," Holman tells KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr. "I'm a transplant and Randy'...

St. Joseph School Superintendent Gabe Edgar/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph School Superintendent Gabe Edgar is busy, very busy, as he takes over his duties officially.Edgar, who began officially on the 1st, says the first order of business is to get on top of his priorities."I feel like in the St. Joseph School District we have a dart board on the wall and we have about 140 darts in that dart board and we need to back off 135 of those and prioritize," Edgar tells K...

MDC is accepting applications for its next class of conservation agent trainees. Graduates will join (L-R) Conservation Agents Caleb Sevy, Justin Pyburn, Sarah Foran, and other agents in enforcing the Wildlife Code of Missouri, educating people about conservation, and serving the public as ambassadors for conservation./ Photo provided by Missouri Department of Conservation. By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post The Missouri Department of Conservation is recruiting new people that want to become conserv...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostIndependence Day means a bit more for those serving in the military, especially those serving overseas.A Plattsburg native will be spending the holiday in Kuwait, where she is deployed as a member of the 139th Airlift Wing of the Air National Guard.Staff Sergeant Mary Kate Masters, who has been in the Air National Guard for five years, has been serving in Kuwait for the past six months. Masters says she has experienced and seen first-hand the sacrifices it takes to ...

By MATT PIKESt. Joseph PostDrivers will see an increased amount of traffic as they head out to celebrate the Fourth of July. The Missouri State Highway Patrol is preparing for a larger number of drivers traveling through the holiday weekend. Seargent Shane Hux with Troop H in St. Joseph says the patrol holiday counting period will start today."And the holiday counting period goes all the way through Monday the 4th," Hux tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "So, like I said there will be an...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph police arrested a Lake of the Ozarks man late Thursday night after a pursuit that began in Clinton County.Clinton County authorities requested help after the man, described to be in his 20s or 30s, fled officers there who had pulled his pickup over for a headlight violation.St. Joseph police say the man entered the city limits while driving south on US 169 around 10:30. Officers used spike strips and thought they had disabled the pickup at Pickett and Riv...

Fans watch training camp on a berm behind the end zone at the Mosaic Training Fields in 2021. Photo by Tommy Rezac. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostKansas City Chiefs training camp is less than a month away, and St. Joseph is getting ready to roll out the red carpet and welcome Chiefs Kingdom to town for a 12th time.Director of the St. Joseph Sports Commission Brett Esely says this year's training camp is the first fully normal camp since 2019, and he expects increased travel and commerce.&quo...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Child care is becoming harder and harder to find following the coronavirus pandemic. And that might be keeping some people from reentering the workforce. St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce President Natalie Redmond says the pandemic put northwest Missouri in a "child care desert.""As well as issues with folks being able to get to daycare, so not only do we have the desert but obviously that's impacting small businesses," Redmond tells KFEQ Ho...