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Courtesy photo. By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostA minor league football team in St. Joseph is set to open its seventh season of competition this weekend.The St. Joseph Swarm will take on the First City Cavalry from Leavenworth, Kansas this Saturday at 3 p.m. at Central High School's Noyes Field. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for kids ages 6-12.Jaime Saucedo is the head coach of the Swarm. He and his wife, Jessica, run the organization. He says the purpose of the Swarm is largely player development."It's more of a club football team that we're trying to develop into a pro...

File photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostA loan-grant combination used by Worth County to improved its road maintenance equipment is being used as an example of how the USDA can help rural communities.USDA Rural Development put the $500,000 combination funding together to buy a road grader and excavator for Worth County.Missouri State Director Kyle Wilkens says Worth County had to form a non-profit to accept the funds necessary to buy the equipment."Not only to be able to get that motor grader and get that excavator out their working, but also in setting up the not-for-profit there, in th...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post The St. Joseph Fire Department has had to deal with a number of grass fires early in the spring. With the start of open burning at the beginning of April, Fire Inspector Steve Henrichson says the department has already had to work a couple grass fires. "People that, both Saturday and Sunday it had actually been canceled by the on duty battalion chief, and of course people not listening to the radio and one of them was canceled late, so they didn't know it had been canceled and the wind got it and got away from them," Henrichson tells KFEQ/St. Jose...

I-229 Double decker overpass in downtown St. Joseph/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph Mayor John Josendale says plans are moving forward for the renovation of Interstate 229, though he admits they are moving slower than he would like.The future of the interstate loop was one of the topics of discussion in the mayor's State of the City address Thursday morning at Missouri Western State University.Josendale says government moves much slower than business, something he has had to get used to."In this particular case, there's a plan now. It's got to be reviewe...

Melissa Corey, Library Media Specialist at Robidoux Middle School, was honored as a finalist for the 2023 Librarian of the Year by Scholastic and School Library Journal/ Photo by Ashley Coats with the St. Joseph School District St. Joseph Post A local longtime middle school librarian is being honored for her work. Robidoux Middle School Librarian Melissa Corey has been named by Scholastic and School Library Journal as one of two finalists for Librarian of The Year. Corey says it was a surprise to find out she had been honored and that she had to read the email a couple of times to find out wh...