Stories from Thursday, January 25, 2018

Ryan Christopher Stoll, age 35, passed away in St. Louis on January 23, 2018. Ryan was raised in Columbia and was a graduate of Hickman High School, earned a B.S. in Engineering and an MBA at the University of Missouri, and was pursuing a second master’s degree at Mizzou at the time of his passing. Ryan was employed as a Director at Express Scripts in St. Louis, Missouri...

A special sales tax task force met on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at the Old School House in Arrow Rock, where members discussed the economic development tax proposal that will be on the ballot of the April municipal election. Task force members present at Wednesday’s meeting were: Presiding Commissioner Kile Guthrey, Northern Commissioner Richard Clemens, Southern Commissioner Monte Fenner, Marshall-Saline Development Corporation Executive Director Stan Moore, Chairman of the Arrow Rock Town Board Kirby McCullough, task force treasurer Donald Vogelsmeier, Marshall Junction representative Greg Swift, Slater representative Russell Griffith, Marshall representative David Haugland, and president and chief compliance officer of McLiney and Company, Joey McLiney, an attorney assisting the Saline County Commission with the legal components of the economic development sales tax proposal.. ...

County Clerk Debbie Russell announced the county clerk’s office is in the process of putting together all of the certification paperwork for candidate filings of the April municipal election. “We’ve already done just one precinct alone, and there was 11 different ballot styles,” Russell reported during a Saline County Commission meeting on Thursday, Jan. 25. “We’ve got a lot of different things going on for the election.”...

The Marshall Board of Education looked at utility costs for several buildings during its meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23. Jim Papreck, data analysis and dissemination director, said the Spainhower building uses a lot of electricity. "It uses more than the four elementary (schools) combined," he said...

High school basketball scores for Wednesday, Jan. 24