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Fourth-grader Alex Miller is scared to go to school because he does not want to die in a school shooting.
This is why Miller joined community members across the area Saturday morning in St. Joseph’s March For Our Lives, a local version of the national protest for common-sense gun laws.
“I’d want them to know that as an elementary school student, I know that my school and my friends are vulnerable,” Miller said.
Besides marching in protest, Miller cannot do anything to change the current gun laws. He is too young to vote.
“It makes me feel kind of more vulnerable, kind of helpless,” Miller said. “Honestly, all I can do is tell the people that can vote what I think.”
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Some residents in St. Joseph opened their mailboxes Friday only to be confused by a campaign flier with the wrong polling addresses.
A personalized campaign flier was mailed to registered voters in St. Joseph encouraging residents to vote. The flier provided the individual’s correct polling location, but the wrong addresses.
“We started getting calls here in the office from confused voters about a certain flier that was mailed out from a candidate,” said Buchanan County Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey.
The flier was in support of Beau Walker, one of two candidates running for St. Joseph’s mayor. It was paid for by the Committee to Elect Beau Walker.
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HALLSVILLE – Hallsville, Missouri, is only about 15 miles outside of Columbia. It’s small -- only one traffic light, about a square mile of land and a population of about 1,500 as of the last census.
But the town is growing. Mayor Mickey Nichols said the population is expected to be 2,000 in just two years. This quick growth has put a strain on the town’s schools.
As many mid-Missouri communities grow, the school districts are unable to keep up. These schools are experiencing overcrowding, and some districts cannot secure enough funding to expand them.
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Graphic designer by day- aerialist by night, Melissa Bratton does it all. Not by traveling around America in a circus, but right here in Columbia, Missouri. Bratton is able to juggle both of her passions in everyday life. Read the story here.
High school students get a taste of Marching Mizzou through competition. Read the story here.