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The Sedalia #200 School Board met Monday evening in the Dr. Harriet Wolfe Media Center, at Smith-Cotton High School. The meeting began with a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new additions to the high school, with a tour that followed.

According to a press release from the Sedalia 200 School District, the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) scores have been posted by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

David Mcallum is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin from The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Ducky on NCIS. Now you can add to his resume, crime fiction novelist! McCallum has written the highly entertaining ONCE A CROOKED MAN.

One of the main portions of the Missouri State Fair is to give kids an avenue to showcase their skills and talents. The 4H building does this year after year by allowing kids to do live demonstrations, show off photos, baked goods, projects and more...

The Boys & Girls Clubs of West Central Missouri’s Summer Program had a few special visitors this week – members of the Sedalia Bombers baseball team. As part of a partnership between the Club and the team, several players came to the Skyline Site Wednesday to read to members, answer questions and play. ...

I woke up this morning and looked in the mirror, and I swore that wasn't me. The guy in the mirror had wrinkles liver spots and very little hair. I know it was only yesterday that Donnie, Bobby  and I were playing marbles around a circle drawn in dirt and someone slipped in an outlawed steeley. It ...

Smith-Cotton High School football players kicked off their Friday by reading to Sedalia 200 elementary students. Players read in groups and one-on-one with students at Washington, Heber Hunt, Horace Mann, Skyline and Parkview schools. The...

Albert Einstein, George Lucas and Milton Hershey shared the stories of their lives and the secrets to their success Wednesday at Skyline Elementary School. As part of a multi-discipline project, third grade students portrayed the subjects of their studies in a Living Museum of Inventors in the Skyline library...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Senate panel is proposing cuts to reading programs next fiscal year. The panel stripped funding for a supplemental reading program and the Bright Futures Program. Both were aimed at increasing reading among young children...

Research for “Life Everlasting and The Twelve Mile Blues,” began in 1987 when Marla J. Selvidge, former director of the Center for Religious Studies at UCM, discovered a defunct town of  "Gilreath" while hiking in the hills of North Carolina...