Jan 26, 2025 · Subscriber Exclusive California R-I Board discusses opportunity for additional state funding. A new opportunity for extra state funding to increase teacher salaries and questions about real property tax freeze for seniors dominated this month's Californ…

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Jan 15, 2025 · The California Lady Pintos basketball team were the underdogs Friday night in the Sophie Cunningham Classic. After not having a full team practice all week due to weather, California went up against the undefeated (10-0) Doniphan High School Donettes. Doniphan was led by their high-scoring backcourt ...

Nov 20, 2024 · Democrat photo/Garrett Fuller — A granite stone and firefighter helmet are seen Nov. 13, 2024, laying outside the California Fire Department station in memory of John "JL" Lucas, a former volunteer firefighter who filled many other community-centric positions before he died June 3, 2023, in a motorcycle accident.

Jan 6, 2025 · Here are Mid-Missouri school closings and other weather-related announcements for Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Last updated at 9:06 a.m. BOONE COUNTY. Boone County government: Non-essential offices closed Monday.

Dec 18, 2024 · Hard work and persistence pay off. It was a lesson Judah Connelly, a sixth grader at California Middle School, learned after pouring his heart into an essay for school resource officer Cpl. Scott Harkins' essay contest.

Sep 4, 2024 · The Moniteau County Sheriff's Office has extended coverage to include California after all California Police Department officers resigned. Commissioners are working with Sheriff Tony Wheatley and City of California officials to iron out a deal allowing the sheriff's office to fill in for the shuttered police department.

6 days ago · Deloris Plaster. Deloris Plaster, 83, of Centertown, Mo., passed away on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at the California Care Center. She was born on August 2, 1941 near Russellville, Mo., the daughter …

Jan 8, 2025 · While the first phase of Missouri's minimum wage increase went into effect Jan. 1, a challenge to the measure -- and other provisions included in it -- is still moving forward. Proposition A, also known as the Minimum Wage and Earned Paid Sick Time Initiative, appeared on the Nov. 5 ballot and was ...

Dec 22, 2024 · Ceilidh Kern/News Tribune photo: Ryan Lueckenhoff shows the crew members — including his father, brother, cousin and uncles — the plan for the day's burn Dec. 7, 2024, on a farm near St. Thomas, Missouri.