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by Lexi Larson Catherine Sapp was named the new commander of the Ashland American Legion at the Tuesday, June 21 meeting. She is the first woman to hold this position in Ashland. Sapp, 47, graduated from Brazoswood High School in Jackson, Texas in 1986. Two years later she joined the Air Force and served for

by Lexi Lawson The race for the Boone County Commissioner, South County District, is beginning to heat up with the Republican and Democratic primaries on August 2. Two of those Democrats are Ted Farnen and Ann Peters. Ted Farnen is an editor for the Missouri School Board Association. He graduated from the Missouri School of

by Bruce Wallace Ashland businessman Dave Westhoff has a new computer program at his office at the corner of Main and Henry Clay. It controls his business on east Broadway – the one 44-feet above the Ashland overpass. Westhoff maintains his new digital sign on east Broadway from his desk. “Actually, I can control it

Whether or not to allow a builder to develop six new duplexes off Liberty Lane will be a question and vote for the Ashland Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night. At their June 21 meeting, the aldermen gave first reading approval to the project which would be built in a lot just south of the

When tenants on Liberty Lane came home from taking their children to summer school Tuesday morning, they found a letter taped to their front door informing them their duplex had a new firm controlling and managing its day-to-day operations. Rent was to be paid for July to the new firm, Balke Brown Transwestern. While a

The proposed development of six duplexes off Liberty Lane, just east of the Middleton subdivision took a sudden turn Tuesday night as the Ashland Board of Aldermen approved the first reading approving the development. Last Tuesday the Ashland Planning and Zoning Commission had unanimously shot down Schooler Construction’s request for a zoning change from “Commercial”

Many businesses and government offices will be closed on Monday for the July 4th holiday. The City of Ashland will be closed and trash services will be moved back one day. County offices will also be closed for the holiday. Moser’s Grocery will be open on July 4th from 7 a.m.-10 p.m. The Ashland Optimist

An Ashland man was in serious condition at University Hospital after his car was struck Friday night near the Isle of Capri casino in Boonville. Donald Wood, 73, of Ashland had stopped his car on the railroad tracks near the casino at about 8:25 p.m. A Union Pacific train headed east-bound crashed into Wood’s 2002

Ashland Mayor Gene Rohrer said Monday he could not complete the work of the city’s largest infrastructure project in history and run for county commission at the same time. Rohrer suspended his campaign in the Southern District Boone CountyCommission race with a written statement. “My first responsibility is to the City of Ashland,”Rohrer wrote. “I

The proposed development of six duplexes off Liberty Lane, just east of the Middleton subdivision took a sudden turn Tuesday night as the Ashland Board of Aldermen approved the first reading approving the development. Last Tuesday the Ashland Planning and Zoning Commission had unanimously shot down Schooler Construction’s request for a zoning change from “Commercial”