Stories from Thursday, June 6, 2019

Robert L. “Bob” Oehlschlaeger, 78, of Grain Valley, Mo., formerly of Concordia, died Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at St. Luke’s Hospice House in Kansas City, Mo. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 8, 2019, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Concordia, with William W. ...

The Marshall Chapter of NSDAR congratulated the accomplishments and successes of area students this spring. Three Chapter Scholarships and a Good Citizen award were given to three Marshall High School seniors, as well as one American History Essay Contest winner, and six Youth Citizenship awards to graduating eighth graders...

“Summer learning loss” as been the subject of decades of research by educators and is thought by some to be one of the chief causes of underachievement in schools. The “Slide” is also referred to in some studies as “summer learning loss,” “summer setback,” or “summer slide,” and is defined as “two-thirds of the academic achievement gap in reading and math found in an average high school student has been explained through the learning loss that accrues during the summer months of the primary school years.”. ...

The Marshall Municipal Band will present their second concert of the season with a program of crowd favorites this Thursday evening at 7 p.m. on the east lawn of the Saline County Courthouse. The concert will open with the John Philip Sousa march “El Capitan.”...

A Slater Board of Education meeting took place Monday, June 3, at 4 p.m., at the school’s Library/Media Center. Following adoption of the meeting agenda, District Superintendent Debbie Gonzalez read a letter of resignation of Robert Pannell, Language Arts teacher. Motion was made and approved to accept Pannell’s resignation, effective at the end of the school year...

The Saline County Commission’s bi-weekly meeting began with some impromptu discussion of local levee districts and the fact that the river continues to rise. Questions were raised concerning the level of damage/clean up issues possible in the future...

The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings for areas in Saline County along the Missouri River effective until Tuesday, June 18. At Glasgow, as of 9:30 a.m., river level was 35.6 feet. Flood stage at that point on the river is 25 feet with projections of a minor lowering of the flood level to 35.4 by Friday morning. ...

National Donut Day, Friday, June 7, honors the Salvation Army “Lassies,” or “Donut Lassies,” the women who served donuts to combat soldiers during World War I. In line with the Salvation Army’s consistent mission to help and assist the needy and the homeless, the first memorial Donut Day was established in 1938 as a fundraiser. The goal of the original Donut Day was to assist those in the Chicago area suffering from poverty and homelessness during the Great Depression...

At approximately 10:25 a.m., Wednesday morning, June 5, a crash occurred approximately 3 miles east of Marshall on Highway 240. A 1988 Freightliner Dump truck, driven by Blake S. Barth, 22, of Anderson Mo., was traveling westbound on Highway 240. A 2016 Toyota Tundra driven by Tracy L. Baker, 51, of Bradford, Il., traveling eastbound on Highway 240 crossed the center line of the highway and struck the rear driver’s side of the eastbound dump truck. After impact, the Freightliner overturned and traveled off the right side of the roadway, struck a fence, and came to rest facing north. The Toyota then traveled off the left side of the highway and came to rest facing west. Baker was assisted at the scene by Saline County emergency personnel and Missouri State Highway Patrol, and was transported by Air Evac to Centerpoint Hospital in Independence MO.