A fifth grade teacher at the Eugene Field Elementary School in Mexico is the recipient of a grant.
Madeline Watson was awarded a fifty dollar grant through WGU Missouri’s “Fund My Classroom” initiative.
The funds will be used by Watson to purchase materials to provide project-based activities that help build students reading comprehension.
A plan of attack on making sidewalks compliant with the American with Disabilities Act is being put together by the Mexico City Council. A study done by Bartlett and West recently rated Mexico’s existing sidewalk conditions. Mexico has 55 miles of sidewalk in total. 38 miles or 68 percent of the total sidewalks in Mexico…
No new cases of COVID-19 reported in Audrain County today (Thursday). Three more people have recovered since yesterday’s (Wednesday) report from the Audrain County Health Department, bringing the active number of cases down to 31. So far in total there have been 122 cases of COVID-19 in Audrain County with 90 total recoveries and 1…
A plan is being proposed in the Missouri House of Representatives that could fund roads and bridges, by taking from other programs. State Rep. Cody Smith, a Republican from Carthage is proposing a plan that would allocate 100 million dollars for road and bridge maintenance. Instead of taking funds from the gas tax and other…
ARRESTS: Mexico Public Safety reports the arrest of 29 year old Zacariah Bees on Friday, for an Audrain County warrant. 29 year old Jena L. Duncan was arrested yesterday (Sunday) for an Audrain County warrant and a City of Mexico warrant. CALLS FOR SERVICE: Mexico Public Safety responded to the following calls for service over…
The Audrain County Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of a Vandalia man with the help of their K-9 after a traffic stop. According to the department they stopped 40 year old Carl Eugene Nevills III along East Liberty in Mexico on Thursday afternoon for a traffic violation. The man was reportedly giving inconsistencies and…
ARRESTS: Mexico Public Safety reports the arrest of 47 year old Shannon R. Haynes yesterday for 2nd degree domestic assault and a parole and probation warrant. CALLS FOR SERVICE: Mexico Public Safety responded to the following calls for service yesterday: Drug activity in progress reported at Plunkett Park. A scam at 100 South Clark. A…
