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Local Tik Tok star Elisabeth Wykert has amassed 600,000 Tik Tok followers and is making several waves outside of the app as well/ Photo by Brent Martin By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post A local social media influencer is making big waves on Tik Tok. Elisabeth Wykert grew up in Union Star and Savannah, and after a stint in Los Angeles moved back to St. Joseph in 2021. And since 2019, she has become quite the social media star Wykert began posting Tik Toks in 2019 and in the four years of posting on the app, she has gained more than 600,000 followers. Wykert says when a video of her just dancing i...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post A new service to Buchanan County is helping to provide training for caregivers taking care of loved ones or friends at home. Former Buchanan County Commissioner Lee Sawyer says this service is important in the county because of a lack of training for caregiving at home. "The main goal is that when people go home from the hospital, if they've had some type of surgery or they've had some other type of situation, you want them to have good care at home and not have to go back into the hospital for that situation," Sawyer explains to host of the ...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has led Missouri out of a consortium of states formed to fight voter fraud.Ashcroft, a Republican, says the Electronic Registration Information Center, known as ERIC, has strayed from its original mission. Ashcroft complains that some states in the group focused too heavily on adding to voter registration rolls at the expense of cracking down on voter fraud."Those states seem to want to prioritize trying to fill our voter rolls with people that didn't want to vote as opposed to making sure our voter rolls are clea...

HPI in downtown St. Joseph/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostSt. Joseph's complaint against HPI Products has been dropped after the company went into receivership and the federal government stepped in to clean up alleged environmental damage from the chemical company located in downtown St. Joseph.City officials filed a complaint against HPI at the end of November 2020, alleging HPI "repeatedly discharged chemicals into the City's sewer system and operated within city limits without a required Wastewater Contribution Permit."The Environmental Protection Agency along ...

20230228_110830.jpg By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post St. Joseph Restaurant Week not only helped benefit several local eateries, it also helped raise money for a local non-profit that helps feed people in the region. This year's partner non-profit during Restaurant Week was Second Harvest Community Food Bank, which serves 19 counties across northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas. CEO of Second Harvest Chad Higdon says it was a really exciting opportunity to partner with the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce to help promote the event. "It really created a lot of buzz and energy, we saw a ...