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School board adds new members, discusses masks, quarantines and construction

Results are in: New faces joining city council, school board, health dept. board

Virtual candidate forums to begin next week

Virtual candidate forums to begin next week Kirksville Daily Express Area voters will get to hear from candidates for several local elections beginning next week. The Kirksville Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee is hosting multiple virtual candidate forums ahead of the April 6 election. The events will be held via Zoom and streamed on the chamber’s Facebook page. The first forum will feature candidates for the Kirksville City Council at 6 p.m. on March 16. Kevin Alm, Kabir Bansal, John Gardner and Dana (Danny) McDowell are the four candidates running for one, three-year seat on the council. Candidates for the Kirksville R-III School Board will be part of another forum later on March 16. Those candidates include Nick Billington, Pamela Barnett, Mikey Bishop, Angela Caraway, Jaimee Miller and Bret Davidson. 

Vacancies to fill on City Council, R-III School Board as Biston, Nichting opt against re-election

Vacancies to fill on City Council, R-III School Board as Biston, Nichting opt against re-election Austin Miller Filing for the Kirksville R-III School Board and City Council elections remain open, with one vacancy to fill on each group in the April 6 Municipal Election.  Current councilmember and former mayor Phillip Biston is the only member up for re-election this year and has chosen not to run for a third term.  Gay Nichting and Mikey Bishop are up for re-election on the school board and Nichting, the longest-tenured member of the board, is not seeking another term after 15 years as a member. Bishop is running for his second term.

Care home approved on former pub site

CITY councillors have approved revised plans for a new care home in Otterbourne. Barchester Healthcare applied to alter permission for a 62-bedroom facility and nurses accommodation on the site of the demolished Captain Barnard public house on Otterbourne Road. That scheme was approved in February and now Barchester has applied to add two bedroom and remove the nurses accommodation and provide 21 parking spaces. Planning officer Verity Murphy told the planning committee that the overall height had been reduced and the new plan was similar in design and scale to the one most recently approved. Two mature trees on site will be retained.