Looking Backward

Looking forward to a successful season, the Pirate football team of Platte City opened it gridiron schedule in a big...

The interim minister for the First Christian Church of Platte City is the Rev. Harold Van Cleave, a retired minister...

Platte City students will get a chance to offer a helping hand in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Katrina, which...

Miss Kitty Clark Wilson and Mr. Charles Craig Richards exchanged wedding vows on Sunday morning, Aug. 10, 1975 at the...

Lauren Peters, a 7-year-old student at Renner Elementary School in the Park Hill R-5 School District, wrote and illustrated a...

Dearborn has selected a new city clerk. The board of aldermen culminated in search for a replacement for longtime clerk...

Kevin Weeks, son of the Rev. Lester M. Weeks of Platte City, has been awarded a teaching fellowship in the...

The Bishop family of Barry Heights was on hand at KCI Airport last week to greet a new member of...

A felony that began in Lincoln, Neb. last Wednesday ended hours later in southern Andrew County, Missouri, north of St....

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Lee Richardson, Camden Point, announce the birth of a son born August 12, 1975 at Spelman...

A special permit was approved by Platte County last week for construction of an 18-hole golf course at M-92 and...

During a budget workshop on Tuesday night, members of the Platte City Board of Aldermen discussed the funding element for...

David Harold Hensley was born Tuesday, August 5, 1975 at Spelman Memorial Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Jacki Hensley. He...

The Hal Swaney family of rural Platte City was on hand Friday afternoon at KCI Airport for the arrival of...

Several trusses being placed in the roof of a strip mall under construction in Platte City came tumbling down Wednesday...

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Sanders announce the birth of their daughter, Janet Louise, on August 1, 1975 at Research Hospital...

Tim Ryan, a civil engineer with Oppenheimer Engineering Co., Kansas City, is the new city administrator for Platte City. He...

Four men were arrested shortly after 3 p.m. on Saturday in connection with a burglary at Camden Point. Platte County...

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wright were hosts at a picnic last Sunday for all the people living on Hwy. HH....

The Missouri Air National Guard provided a presentation of the history of the United States flag during a flagpole dedication...