Food Shopping

YMCA Day Camp kids help the food pantry (08/11/11)
YMCA Day Camp kids presented Ron Duvall with a whole cart full of donations for the food pantry on Friday, Aug. 5. Duvall explained at a recent InterAgency Council meeting that the food pantry has struggled with donations because so many supplies have been sent to Joplin. The campers were eager to help and excited to present Duvall with the donations.

Special delivery: letter carriers present donations to food pantry (05/16/11)
Letter carriers delivered more than just bills Monday, May 16. They also handed over nearly three and a half tons worth of food to two local organizations. The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, hosted by the National Association of Letter Carriers and USPS, encouraged residents to bag and leave non-perishable food items near their mailboxes for pickup...

Share the Harvest benefits food banks (01/28/11)
Hunters contributed more than 4,000 pounds worth of deer meat during Community Food Pantry's Share the Harvest Campaign. Thursday morning, Jan. 27, Director Ron Duvall (background) and Jim Zimmerman (foreground) realized just how much meat that is as they unloaded a 655-pound truckload. A total of 4,075 pounds of deer meat came in from hunters and 70 of those pounds stayed with Smith Food Bank in Slater...

Holiday Project grows, needs support (12/02/10)
According to Holiday Project organizers, the number of food and gift recipients has tripled in the past couple of weeks. Organizers are asking for more help from the community as they now say more than 1,000 individuals, approximately 400 families, will be served this year...

Marshall council approves sale of city property, lease with food pantry (03/01/10)

Marshall school board gets good news/bad news on financial issues (UPDATE: 10:20 a.m. Nov. 25) (11/24/09)
The Marshall school board received a report on the 2008-2009 audit, which was fine, and on the budget outlook, which was not so fine, at its meeting Tuesday, Nov. 24. Superintendent Craig Noah said the audit included several findings, or items that should be addressed, but he noted that one of them is not really a cause for concern...

Marshall man reflects on Napton's past (04/30/08)
Although drivers passing quickly by Napton in southeast Saline County may not see it, taking a closer look reveals the history of a town that was the county seat from 1831-1838, when court was held in a hewed log tavern built on a sloping bank of Salt Fork Creek valley...

Saline County Century Farm: Phillips recalls days when Marshall square was main market for farm produce (03/25/08)
Charles Phillips remembers when they took the produce they raised on their farm to town, selling it at Latimer's grocery store, which was located on the north side of the square. "The square used to be a shopping mall," said Phillips. He married his wife, Wilma Ruth Harris, in 1942 and eventually took over farming from her parents, Giles Thomas and Ruth Harris. ...

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