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Ghost stories and more

Valerie Verkamp by Valerie Verkamp
October 28, 2024
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At the Parkville Nature Sanctuary, the Shortleaf Band of Springfield, featuring Mike and Tinley Fraser, entertained the crowd with haunted ballads and fiddle tunes. The annual Ghost Story Night featured a gourd-geous alignment of jack-o-lanterns and spooky, haunted trails. Witches, voodoo doctors and zombies lurked among stately, ghost-eye trees. A hot dog vendor and A Taste of Brazel food truck offered cuisine. Complimentary hot chocolate, S’mores and carnival-style games were stationed inside the nature sanctuary.  

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Valerie Verkamp

Valerie Verkamp

Valerie decided she wanted to be a newspaper reporter when she was 28 years old and she successfully convinced the editor of the Platte County Landmark to give it 30 days. Now with The Landmark for over a decade, she has written countless stories on local government, education, lawsuits, community news, crime, and the prison system. Valerie hails from Park University with a BA in Elementary Education and a post-baccalaureate degree in paralegal studies from Penn Valley Community College. She has received honorable mention for Best Government News Story and joined her Landmark colleagues as recipient of the General Excellence Award in the Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Missouri Press Association.

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