Looking Backward

The Thrift Shop located on Main Street above Max’s TV in Platte City will open for business on Friday, Sept....

Jessica Lyn Schmollinger and James Clifton Thatcher II exchanged wedding vows June 11 at Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel in Parkville....

More than 50 interested people attended an open town hall hosted by Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser last Wednesday evening...

The family of Ruth and Murrel Reynolds of 7 NE 76th Terrace, Gladstone, are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary on...

The Platte County R-3 Spirit Squad placed second Aug. 23 at the Missouri State Cheerleading regional competition held at Winnetonka...

An investigation is continuing and more charges may be forthcoming from a fatality incident at Northmoor early Sunday morning. A...

Donna Giese, coach of the women’s slow pitch softball team sponsored by Wells Bank, is shown presenting to Jack Coots...

Construction has begun to install a single permanent entrance to be used by the disabled and employees on the front...

Will the publicly-operated Platte County Regional Sewer District attempt to intervene? That’s the question this week surrounding the issue of...

Mr. and Mrs. James F. Auman announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Rhonda Lee Hoskins, to David Wayne Hunter,...

Ella M. Crawford of Liberty and Stephen R. Fleming of Smithville announce the engagement of their daughter, Dawn Janel Fleming,...

Gary Witt has been nominated to fill the third of three vacancies on the Missouri Court of Appeals in the...

“The Old Home Place” opened last week on Main Street in Platte City by Shirley and Tom Bruno in the...

Elizabeth Navarro Alakayleh, daughter of Mrs. Tommie Flores and the late Abel Navarro of San Antonio, Tex., and James Russell...

The local economy may not exactly be booming, but the combination of general sales tax receipts plus income from the...

Workmen began a face lifting job on the Shirley Fashion's Center building on Main Street last weekend. The paint is...

The issue of riverboat gaming in unincorporated Platte County was approved by a relatively narrow margin in Tuesday's election, which...

Platte County voters approved a 10 year extension of the county parks and recreation half cent sales tax. There were...

The city council for the City of Platte City has passed an ordinance calling a special election on Aug. 7...

Carl Layman, Jr. of Easley, South Carolina and Deborah Craven of Platte City have announced their upcoming marriage on July...