June 2023

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Saline County Early Days

The Doughboy – Part 2 According to the E.M. Viquesney Database, the statutes, the state of Missouri has three such Doughboy statues – Visquesney Statues, two of them at Bolivar and Sedalia bear the copyright mark of Walter Rylander instead of E.M. Viquesney. Crylander owned the rights to Viquesney’s Doughboy for four years. The information also states that the third Viquesney Doughboy in Missouri stands in front of the Lafayette County Courthouse in Lexington. However, Marshall has a fourth one right here.

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Traffic on I-70 and Route BB (Exit 115) impacted weekend of June 16-19

Westbound I-70 lanes moved to new Rocheport Bridge JEFFERSON CITY — Traffic on Interstate 70 and the Route BB interchange (Exit 115) in Boone County will be impacted the weekend of June 16-19 as westbound I-70 traffic is moved onto the new Lance Corporal Leon Deraps I-70 Missouri River Bridge at Rocheport. This will be the first traffic to use the new westbound bridge constructed as part of the Rocheport Bridge project which is being led by the design-build team from Lunda Construction Co., https:// www.modot.org/RocheportBridge.

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