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Director of Hospice Kassie Hodge talks to reporters at the Mosaic Hospice offices/Photo by Matt Pike By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Mosaic Life Care Hospice officials encourage everyone to have a plan ready for a day you may not be able to make your own health care decisions. Director of Hospice Kassie Hodge says everyone is encouraged to create their advanced directives. She says there are two parts to an advanced directive. "One, tell your family members what your wishes are, that's...

Courtesy Missouri Western athletics. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostMissouri Western State University has named Andrew Carter as the school's next athletic director. The University made the formal announcement late Wednesday afternoon.Carter is currently the A.D. at NCAA Division II Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota. He'll start at Missouri Western on May 2, and an introductory press conference will be held on that day."In visiting with Andy, it was clear that he underst...

St. Joseph Police Chief Chris Connally on the KFEQ Hotline/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph Police Chief Chris Connally says he's still short officers, but is more optimistic as he recruits personnel for the St. Joseph Police Department.Connally says the department seems to be seeing more interest with more applications for police officer coming in."It's going the right direction," Connally tells host Barry Birr on the KFEQ Hotline. "I think something ...

By MATT PIKESt. Joseph PostThe St. Joseph Board of Education has announced another round of transfers, promotions and new hires for next school year. Rebecca Evans has been promoted to principal at Mark Twain Elementary from a curriculum advisor role in the district. Evans replaces Mindi Richardson who resigned from the district.Julie Coon has been appointed as assistant principal at the Early Learning Center. Coon comes to the St. joseph School District from the Mid-Buchanan R-V school distri...

Photo courtesy of United Fiber. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostLocal leaders in northwest Missouri are working with the state and a local fiber-optic network to try and improve rural broadband access in areas that need it most.Buchanan County presiding commissioner Lee Sawyer says the county is trying to decide how to best use its dollars toward this project, using American Rescue Plan funding and other means."We're trying to figure out how to maximize the dollars we have as matching mon...

Clarence Green/Photo courtesy of Northwest Missouri State University By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostNorthwest Missouri State University has appointed Vice President of Culture Clarence Green as interim president as the university searches for a replacement for John Jasinski.The Northwest Board of Regents chose not renew Jasinski's contract and has release no details on the decision.Green has been with Northwest since 1996. He has been vice president of culture on the Maryville campus since A...

Buchanan County Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg (right) administers By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph's new mayor, new city council and new municipal judge are officially on the job.Mayor John Josendale, the eight city councilmembers and municipal judge Theodore "Ted" Elo were all sworn in at the city council chambers at St. Joseph's city hall Monday.Josendale takes the reins at mayor after Bill McMurray elected not to run again after serving for four years.Josendale, a li...

Volunteers for the St. Joseph United Way's Allocations Committee got to know others in the sub committee they were in at a kickoff event last week at Ashland UMC/Photo provided by United Way of Greater St. Joseph By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post St. Joseph United Way volunteers will spend the next seven weeks meeting with partner agencies, figuring out how best to allocate funds from the upcoming fall campaign. Allocations committee co-chair Doug Walter, who is also pastor at Ashland United ...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostFilm students at Missouri Western State University will take the Griffon Film Festival to the public for the first time this Friday.Professor Toby Lawrence says though this is the 7th annual Griffon Film Festival, it's the first time students have shown their films to the public. The festival gets underway at the Missouri Theater in downtown St. Joseph Friday evening."So the first half of the program will be like the family-friendly section," Lawrence...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph police have identified the man found dead in the 2500 block of South 13th Street late Sunday night.The St. Joseph Police Department identifies the man as 50-year-old Eldon Allen of St. Joseph.Police officers were called to the area around 11 o'clock Sunday night. Officers found the body on the ground on 13th Street and began a suspicious death investigation. Officers interviewed two people at the police station. Both were released.Police have not dis...