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DRUGS, GUNS, MONEY SEIZED IN PLATTE CITY

Platte City police recovered drugs, guns and money from a residence in the City July 1 after a Platte City resident was arrested for selling narcotics to an undercover officer.

Jacob Walls, 26, was arrested in Lenexa , Kan. last month after selling the psychedelic DMT and hallucinogenic mushrooms to an undercover officer. Lenexa police found more drugs on Walls’ person and he confessed there were additional narcotics in his brother’s Platte City home in the 1800 block of Gates Drive West.

Platte City police conducted a search of the home Wednesday and recovered ‘magic mushrooms,’ marijuana, DMT, other drug paraphernalia, cash and firearms and ammunition including an AK-47-type assault rifle and a Winchester 30-06.

Posted 1:10p 7/2/09


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SCHOOL BUS WRECK


JEANETTE BROWNING/Citizen Photos

A West Platte School District bus carrying 19 children and three cars were involved in a crash on North Farley Road near Humphrey’s Road June 30. A car coming over a blind hill struck the bus head-on, then itself was struck by another car cresting the hill. A third vehicle managed to swerve around the collision.

The driver of the vehicle that struck the bus was himself a former West Platte student – Austin Brody. No one was injured in the crash, though Brody and the three passengers in his vehicle were shaken.
Opinion

Lee Stubbs

FOURTH OF JULY SPECIAL

Lee Stubbs

Editor

Happy Fourth of July and welcome to a special online version of Stubbs Station. My apologies to those readers who flipped to the Opinion page of this week’s print version of The Citizen and saw only my mug and no column. At least you still have something to shoot bottle rockets at this weekend.

Anyway, I’ve got some opinionated commentary to impart to you, but first, I want to give you an update of what’s coming from Citizen headquarters in the next few weeks and even the next few months...more
Opinion

Bill Graham

DON'T TAKE FREEDOM FOR GRANTED

BILL GRAHAM

A few months ago at my office we knew layoffs were coming, we just didn’t know who. My life was like watching a Fourth of July skyrocket shooting off golden-hot sparks as it streaked skyward toward a conclusion.

Would it explode in a pretty pattern that lingers in the air, the kind that makes me feel glad? Or, would it be one of the those disturbing super-bright, blinding-flash, low-altitude explosions that I don’t like because it’s too sudden, too intense, gone quickly and makes me feel like I’m in combat?...more

NO ANSWER YET TO CITY'S SEWER QUESTION

Platte City city administrator Jason Metten would like to see the issue resolved. Alderman Andy Stanton said he thinks the Board of Aldermen is ready to move on it. But, after a City subcommittee reviewed options for providing sewer service to City limits east of I-29, the meeting was adjourned without a resolution on which direction to go.

The subcommittee reviewed a report from Metten and engineering firm Bartlett and West outlining four different scenarios for providing sewer service to the area in question, bordered by I-29 to the west, Bethel Road to the east and Route HH to the north...more

TORCH PASSED AT R-3

It was a tough decision.

But, retiring Platte County R-3 Superintendent Dr. Mark Harpst remembers why he left the West Platte School District superintendent’s post and his hometown of Weston in 1996 to take over at Platte County .

“You could see that Platte County was on the verge of really growing,” Harpst said. “The potential was there and it was exciting. What enticed me to come to Platte County was the challenge of it all.”

Now, as his 13-year tenure draws to a close this week, Harpst, 53, can look back with some satisfaction and reflect on just how much the district has grown since he took over...more

NEW JUDGE ASSIGNED TO TOMAHAWKE LAWSUIT

After a round of judicial musical chairs over the last two weeks, the lawsuit brought against Platte County by the developers of the proposed Lake at Tomahawke Ridge residential development is now in the hands of a retired Vernon County judge.

Last week the Missouri Supreme Court assigned Judge Gerald McBeth to the case, which was filed last November by landowner Hal Swaney after both the Planning and Zoning Commission and County Commissioners denied a preliminary plat application...more

FREEDOM FEST

Hundreds of Camden Point area residents turned out Saturday for the annual Freedom Fest celebration. The event kicked off with a missy/master contest and parade and ended with a fireworks display. Grayson Smith and her decorated mare waited for the parade lineup to begin...more
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