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30 Years Ago–December 21, 1990

Ivan Foley by Ivan Foley
December 17, 2020
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Platte City might drop its plans to annex an area south of the city, Mayor Steve Wegner reports. The board of aldermen has been unsuccessful in acquiring, by friendly annexation, the area south of its corporate boundary, Wegner said.


As a genealogy project, students in Christina O’Brien’s class at Platte City Middle School have been making their own family trees. Not only have they learned about all the different names of their ancestors, but have also come to appreciate the different nationalities that make up America.

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A building at Third Street and Hwy. 92 in Platte City, which housed the KC Barbeque Restaurant and the former Kossen Body shop, is slated for demolition under the Platte City ordinance on dangerous buildings. The Platte City Board of Aldermen ruled last week that the building must be demolished by the deadline of June 1, 1991. The building was gutted by fire in 1988.


The annual Christmas store for the needy was again successful, Carolyn Horseman, director, said this week. The Platte City store served 330 children and 150 families and the store at Riverside served 700 children and 303 families. The total was 1,030 children and 453 Platte County needy families served this year.

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Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley, longtime owner/publisher of the Platte County Landmark, is a past winner of the national Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism, presented by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky. He lives in Platte County not far from KCI Airport.

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Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Baker, Jr. of Platte City announce the engagement of their daughter, Lori Ann Baker, to Devin Sherry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Sherry of Smithville. The future bride is a 1980 graduate of Platte County...

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Platte City police expect to submit a case file to juvenile authorities this week regarding a report they received from a local 17-year-old girl claiming to have been raped and sodomized over a span of four years by her step-brother....

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Just reread my column from last week, I was in a dark place, you probably should have sent help. Try to be a better reader going forward. I did not make it out to any protests last week. I voiced...

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