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Bikers began their journey on the new trails in the River Bluff Trails Park following the ribbon cutting Friday/Photo by Matt Pike By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post A new trail system in the River Bluffs of St. Joseph will provide new opportunities for hikers and mountain bikers alike. The City of St. Joseph held a ribbon cutting for the new River Bluff Trails Park on Friday with a crowd of bikers and hikers looking on. St. Joseph Director of Parks and Recreation Chuck Kempf says the new trails is ...

Photo by Tommy Rezac. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostThe St. Joseph Central bowling team is in Springfield this weekend competing for a state championship.The Indians have won two state titles - the most recent coming in 2018. First-year head coach and Central bowling alum Tyson Cook says the Indians have had a long tradition of making the state tournament."Central has been to state the last 6-7 years we've had a bowling team," Cook told St. Joseph Post. "I bowled for the team ...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostA local state representative who chairs the Missouri House Higher Education Committee says state colleges and universities came out well during the legislative session.Rep. Brenda Shields of St. Joseph says a strong budget year, helped with federal coronavirus stimulus money, allowed lawmakers to pump much more money into college campuses."We were able to do projects on each one of the campuses with the federal stimulus money that we received, the ARPA funds,&q...

Davis Foster and Ashly McGinnis on the KFEQ Hotline/Photo by Brent Martin By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph school officials have their work cut out for them this summer.They must fill 56 teacher vacancies with an emphasis placed on recruiting special education teachers.St. Joseph School Board President David Foster says the teacher shortage is real and is a nation-wide problem."Our district I think is about average, but we're looking at solutions to try to stay ahead of the gam...

St. Joseph mayor John Josendale speaks at Hillyard's ceremonial groundbreaking Monday. Photo by Tommy Rezac. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostHillyard Companies celebrated a project more than five years in the making in St. Joseph Monday.Hillyard held a ceremonial groundbreaking at their St. Joseph headquarters to mark the start of construction on their new distribution center at the former WireCo Worldgroup site.Hillyard's Chief Administrative Officer Brett Carolus says the project would ...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt says there are lessons to learn in the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Blunt, a Republican, says the crisis has exposed a flawed approach to energy by the West, an approach that has made it harder to respond to such aggression."Have we learned anything from what happened in Germany, where they eliminated nuclear to keep the Green Party in the government or get the Green Party in the government and then they wind up th...

Coleman Hawkins Park will be the site of the Sounds of Summer Concert series/Photo by Brent Martin By MATT PIKE and BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSounds of Summer returns to St. Joseph tonight with a slight change. The concert series will be held every third Friday of the month May through October, rather than every Friday night. Organizer David Peppard says the previous format put a lot of stress on the volunteers who put the concerts together. "In the old format we pretty much did, oh probab...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri lawmakers approved a record $48 billion state budget this legislative session, a budget swollen by a huge influx of federal coronavirus relief and stimulus money.Senate Appropriations Committee chair, Sen. Dan Hegeman of Cosby, says while the budget contained money for big, capital improvement projects and major programs, it also included $100 million to repair and upgrade rural roads."This is a bell I've been ringing for some time, the need to ad...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post A new scam popping up in Buchanan County has the Buchanan County Sheriff's Department advising everyone to be cautious. Sheriff Bill Puett says the latest scam he has become aware of is people using local officials' names to threaten people saying they haven't shown up for jury duty at the federal court in Kansas City. "They're saying it's out of Federal Court in Kansas City and they're using Judge Boeh, I believe is what they&#0...

Roman Grynyshyn/Photo by Brent Martin By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostA Ukrainian agricultural education organizer is touring the United States, raising money to rebuild rural villages ravaged by the war.Roman Grynyshyn has worked with his partners throughout the West to create the fundraising project: World to Rebuild Rural Ukraine."We are trying to replace what was ruthlessly damaged or stolen from the least protected stratum of rural society," Grynyshyn tells host Barry Birr on the KF...