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The Ketchikan City Council held a special meeting Thursday to discuss the local issues surrounding opioid and other substance abuse, and also to hear solutions that have been implemented by
Frank P. Wilfley, Jr., Published by nathan@mexicole... on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 2:48pm Frank P. Wilfley, Jr., 101, died on Monday, May 10, 2021, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Mexico. He was born April 10, 1920, the son of Frank P. Wilfley, Sr., and Willie V. Beagles Wilfley, the fifth generation of Wilfleys in Audrain County. He attended the local schools and a brief time at Central Missouri State. Following Pearl Harbor, he entered the Army of the United States at Jefferson Barracks, and was assigned for basic training at Fort Riley Cavalry Remount Sta...
Ketchikan City Council nixes proposed pay cuts, green-lights tourism strategy, OKs guns-for-armor trade Posted by Eric Stone | May 10, 2021 Aerial view of Ketchikan (KRBD). Ketchikan’s City Council rejected a cost-cutting proposal to reduce city employees’ weekly hours. The council also green-lit funding for a community tourism strategy and OK’d a proposal to trade forfeited guns for body armor. Back in March, as city officials grappled with the fiscal impact of a second summer without cruise ships, four city council members floated cuts to city employees’ hours as a money-saving m...
10 Questions with...Eric Mattson By: Editor If you happen to attend Mexico High School sporting events, or if you play on one of its teams, you have seen Eric Mattson. He roams the sidelines, camera in hand, shooting some pretty amazing pictures. But Mattson is not working. He does this in his spare time, giving the photographs to parents and kids – and to The Ledger for use in our sports pages. The rest of his time, Mattson serves as pastor for the Mexico United Methodist Church. It’s a position he’s held since the summer of 2017 after leading congregations in...