Local
News
Top stories of 2003
11/20/2003
•Bonnie,
Clyde and the Battle of Platte County
•County officials
vote not to increase their salaries
•Holiday lighting
event in Platte City Wednesday
•Dry conditions
make Platte part of disaster area
11/13/2003
•Veterans...
Thank You
•Police effort
will promote seatbelt usage
•Developer files
suit against Platte City
•Twenty-nine
arrested in welfare fraud sting in county
•School resource
officer resigns at PCHS
11/6/2003
•Deal
with marketer would be costly
•I-29 crash injures
two Monday night
•Park board,
PCAA struggle to play nice
•Graves to DEA:
Send more help to this region
•Platte City
man found dead at home
10/16/2003
•Tracts
of land targeted for park use at Dearborn
•Brooks says
he'll seek second term
•Possessing gun
while drunk is now a felony
•Woman guilty
of trying to pass fake prescription
•Supreme Court
reverses Witt
8/14/2003
•Parade
route chosen for Harley event Sept. 6
•Annexation effort
dropped
•Salaries of
mayor, aldermen to be cut
•Neighborhood
Crime Watch area established
5/1/2003
•The
Landmark ready to start is 139th year
•Defibrillators
now on hand at R-3
•Platte
Ridge Park planning meeting is set
•Riverview
Park used as temporary dump site
•Pirate
Hall of Fame nominations are sought
•Teen
charged in robberies
•Nominations
sought for Truman Glenn Award
4/17/2003
•Carpet
bandit is ordered to repay 11 customers
•Sharp's
Station Bridge to open with ribbon cutting
•Operation
Platte County Soldier Support now underway
•R-3
teacher gets to meet brother she never knew
4/10/2003
•Road
tax passes; Palmer edges write-in
•Planning
steps for Platte Ridge Park moving ahead
•Apartment
area rezoned; skate park discussed
•County
lists recipients of outreach grant money
•Witt
elected president of state judges group
3/27/2003
•Digging
Graves - Todd Graves, US Attorney for the Western District
of Missouri (pictures from Optimist Club's celebrity
roast)
•Aldermen
will get 133% salary increase
•Aldermen
question bills sent to city
•Soldiers
with local ties invovled in war
•Mayors
Council shows support for road tax
3/6/2003
•Defibrillator
machine sought for use by school
•Sheriff
department lists most wanted criminals
•U.S.
Attorney Todd Graves will be roasted
•Shops
at Boardwalk project under construction
•New
suspect charged in shooting case
2/20/2003
•Destruction
of property at Riverview
•Edison
Extra, R-3 deal on summer school is off
•Recorder,
commissioners engage in lively debate
•Hwy.
92 overpass reopened to traffic
•Shots
fired at state troopers
2/13/2003
•Controversial
zoning issue tabled by board
•Sharp's Station
bridge still under construction
•Water
line problem won't impact Dearborn
•Firefighter
gets 12 years for arson that led to death
•Aldermen
approve project bid
1/30/2003
•Sheriff
department lists most wanted criminals
•Drug offender
convicted in Platte County
•Cemetery
fees increased; administrator gets raise
•County
crime rate rising
•Absentee
rate headed back to normal
•'Pocket
park' proposed for end of Main Street
1/16/2003
•University
Extension Council candidates are profiled
•Reversal: Williamsburg
property stays commercial
•Economy, tax
cut topics for local visit by Graves
•Stormwater tax
issue pulled from April ballot
•Dearborn has
plans to sell city park, lake area
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