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File photo By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post St. Joseph residents will have the opportunity to experience the bus for free on Thursday. St. Joseph Transit general manager Michelle Schultz says it's part of a nationwide campaign 'Dump the Pump' "It's to encourage everyone to ride the bus, to give them the opportunity to see what the bus has to offer and see if it's something that might fit into their schedule," Schultz tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "Dump the P...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Once again, the name of the Buchanan County Sheriff's Department is being used to exploit residents. But this time, Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett says the criminals are going higher up and using his name to scare people. "They call and they want our citizens to provide them gift card information, attain the gift card and provide them the information so they can siphon the money off the gift cards," Puett tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "I'...

2019 Missouri River flood/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostWork continues to restore levees broken by the 2019 Missouri River flood, four years after the devastating flood.Mike Dulin with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Kansas City says work has been completed to repair a major levee in Holt County damaged by the flood, the Holt County #9 Levee.Four major levee projects remain."One on the Kansas side, just a little upstream of Topeka, and then three over on the Missouri side alo...

Gavins Point Dam/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostFlows into the Missouri River from the six upstream reservoirs have improved as drought conditions ease in the upper Missouri River Basin, but only to the point of slightly above average.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been watching those flows.Chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management for the Corps, John Remus, cautions the improvement hasn't been enough to convince the Corps to return flows from Gavins Point Dam to no...

Stock photo by Matt Pike. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostThe city of St. Joseph is holding a series of public meetings over the next week to give the general public more information on the RiverBluff Gateway Project.The city received a $2.5 million grant from the Missouri Department of Economic Development for this project, which will focus on four areas of the city - the Southside centered on King Hill Avenue, the 6th Street Corridor, Downtown and Northside centered on St. Joseph Avenue.City spok...

Amanda Hoenes makes a stop in Jefferson City, across from the Missouri Capitol/Photo used by permission By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostA Marine veteran viewed St. Joseph from the Missouri River as she paddled the 3,300 miles from the headwaters of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico.Amanda Hoenes of Branson wrote about the adventure in her book: Digging Deeper: USMC Veteran Solo Paddles the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.Hoenes says the trip took her by St. Joseph as the trees began to turn color...

Two new simulators at the Missouri Western Law Enforcement Academy in St. Joseph will provide unique learning experiences for incoming cadets to the Academy/ Photo by Matt Pike By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Two new simulators at the Missouri Western Law Enforcement Academy will help future law enforcement officers learn in new and advanced ways. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held in a new training suite at the law enforcement academy for a MILO simulator, which teaches decision making, and a new ...

By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostThe Andrew County Health Department was recently awarded a grant of more than $397,000 to implement a WIC Community Innovation and Outreach Project, or WIC CIAO.The project is supported by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, and it aims to build outreach strategies to increase participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.Jayne White, Director of Clinical Operations at the Andrew County Health Department, says Andrew Cou...

By MATT PIKESt. Joseph PostA committee formed by the Missouri Association of Counties is working to find solutions to help get mentally ill people treatment, rather than incarceration. Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett, a member of that committee, says on any given day Missouri jails could be holding 190 to 200 mentally ill inmates as they wait for beds in mental health facilities. "Often times those individuals sit between 8 to 12 months and the issue with that is the staffing in jails ar...

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