A 50th wedding anniversary reception for Bill and Ann Chesnut will be held Sunday, Feb. 5, 1995 from 1-4 p.m. at the Camden Point Community building. All friends and relatives are invited.
Local police officers arrested Charles Barlow, the driver of a semi, early Monday morning on traffic charges then found suspected drugs on his rig. Barlow is being held on $75,000 bond in the Platte County Jail. At about 2:15 a.m., Platte City police officers John Kampe and Jeff Faudere and Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper Julie Kerr stopped the semi on traffic charges at Hwy. 92 and I-29. The driver was arrested after it was determined that he was the same person who allegedly furnished methamphetamine, a schedule II controlled drug, to a person in Platte City on Jan. 25. Police said a search of the tractor revealed a shotgun and vial containing suspected methamphetamine.
The Main Street Association in Platte City plans to offer for sale a ceramic medallion featuring the Platte County Courthouse, if there is enough public interest shown, it was announced at their Wednesday morning meeting.
Four Platte County R-3 High School students placed in the forensics competition held at Savannah on Saturday, Jan. 21.
