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10 Questions With.Patrick Shaw
By:
Editor
Patrick Shaw runs the city of Mexico, and he keeps the city running. Shaw serves as Mexico’s IT manager, a role he also plays on a contract basis for Audrain County. In his spare time he runs on city streets. Shaw has kept computers functioning at City Hall for 10 years. Before that, he was a technology specialist with the University of Missouri Extension Service.
But Shaw says he stumbled into an IT job after earning a degree in Criminal Justice. He moved here 24 years ago from a South Carolina town “not much bigger than Mexico.”
Jason Graves: A tomato refresher
By Jason Graves
Different growth habits
Tomatoes are often classified as determinate, semi-determinate or indeterminate.
Determinate tomato plants produce one large crop that ripens all at once. They are favored by commercial growers that want to harvest most of the fruit from one picking. Homeowners who wish to can tomatoes may also decide to use determinate plants since they produce one large crop all at once.
Mature determinate plants are smaller than other types of tomatoes and can be planted closer together to get the most tomatoes from a small space. Primo Red is one example of a variety that is strongly determinate.
By Editor | December 30, 2020
By Mark Evans
mevans@stegenherald.com
Blindsiding America and the world, the novel coronavirus called COVID-19 became a focus of local attention at the beginning of March.
Sandra Bell, executive director of the Ste. Genevieve County Health Department, began updating the County Commission twice a week on the situation and addressed the Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meetings regularly.
She first met with them on March 2 and reported that Missouri had just reported its first case. There were 164 cases nationally, although that figure had doubled in one day. Bell noted that figures “change almost hourly.”
COVID-19 test kits were ordered and the battle against the virus began.