Construction has begun to install a single permanent entrance to be used by the disabled and employees on the front east side of the Platte County Courthouse entry into the lobby area where courthouse security has been established at the request of Presiding Circuit Judge Ward B. Stuckey.
Members of the Platte County Sheriff’s Department and Missouri Highway Patrol spent Saturday cutting down marijuana or hemp plants growing wild around Platte County, then later burning the plants. Operating in teams of six, 30 law enforcement officers slashed abut 900,000 plants from the county’s wild crop of illegal substance with machetes, axes and brush hogs while temperatures soared. Estimates vary significantly on the actual street value of the inferior quality wild plant, or “ditch weed,” found in Platte County.
Local school districts opened their doors this season with some enrollments up, some down, and some facing important issues for the 1994-95 school year. Platte County R-3 saw a total enrollment of 1,732 on Aug. 29, the opening day of school, according to Superintendent Don Siegrist. “Enrollment will go up slightly after the Labor Day weekend, possibly to 1,750,” Siegrist explained. Enrollment at R-3 for the 1993-94 school year peaked at about 1,649.
