First medical marijuana dispensary opens in Kirksville
Kirksville Daily Express
Mark Sheedy is quite happy to save time and money from driving to Moberly or Quincy for medical marijuana.
With the opening of Missouri Health & Wellness’s Kirksville location on Monday, he can stay in town to get the medicine he needs.
Sheedy, 66, said he has chronic pain after two back surgeries, as well as from rheumatoid arthritis and pseudogout. He has taken one pharmaceutical drug that causes his hands to bruise easily. And about a year ago, his daughter, a nurse, recommended medical marijuana as an alternative medicine source.
Current, former ATSU students discuss being Black men in medicine
When was the first time he met a Black doctor?
Megafu, a second-year medical student at A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, said he had to pause before remembering. There was a Black emergency room doctor he met when volunteering in high school.
Getting more Black men involved in medicine was a key piece of that documentary, and a panel organized Friday by ATSU alongside it as part of the school’s Black History Month events. Megafu was part of a four-person panel, which was comprised of current and former ATSU students.
Kirksville Daily Express
The Adair County Commission has added a quarter-cent sales tax proposal onto the April 6 ballot, which, if approved, would fund repairs of the courthouse.
Mark Shahan, the presiding county commissioner, said they had an assessment done last year to get the scope of what fixes are needed.
“We’ve identified plumbing problems, electrical needs upgraded, HVAC, the building’s leaking water from the outside to the inside through the sandstone, the roof needs replaced and the gutters need work,” Shahan said. “So it’s a substantial sum. With this engineering group, we did that assessment and determined it was more than what we can handle here, so we need to ask voters for a sales tax to help us get this work done now.”
Adair County Health Dept. announces quarantine changes as cases drop
Kirksville Daily Express
The Adair County Health Department provided an update for area COVID-19 cases, as well as a change to their quarantine policy on Wednesday.
The county had just two new cases of the virus reported on Wednesday, bringing the total number to 2,279. There are 43 active cases in the county. The new cases involve a 44-year-old male who lives with another confirmed case and an 88-year-old female who lives at a nursing home.
A previously reported 84-year-old male who was admitted to University Hospital in Columbia on Feb. 5 was discharged on Feb. 12 to a nursing home outside of Adair County.