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🌱 How Knox City’s fire department plans to use its new state grant
Hello again Knox City! We’re bringing you the latest town highlights. Don’t miss out, keep going! ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How Knox City’s fire department plans to use its new state grant
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Today's riddle: The doctor told me to drink carrot juice after a hot bath. - Did it help? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Areas of fog in the morning, with a high of 46 and low of 40 degrees.
- Thursday: Becoming very windy; rain, temps: high: 51, low: 14. ⛄️ Brr!
- Friday: Partly sunny and colder, with a high of 34 and low of 29 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Missouri DPS grants $15,000 to 48 volunteer fire departments for equipment upgrades (khqa.com) — Knox City’s volunteer fire department has been awarded up to $15,000 from Missouri’s new state grant program to upgrade critical equipment like radios, hoses, and protective gear. The grant, aimed at small departments with tight budgets, requires only a 5% local cash match and runs through mid-May 2026, with more rural departments still able to apply. 
📸 Around Knox City
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Girl Scouts presents Holiday Craft Time (k-12)
Adair County Public Library , 1 Library Ln , Kirksville
4:30 pm -
Monroe City Boys JV Basketball @ Highland
Highland High School , 21504 MO-6 , Lewistown
6:00 pm -
Monroe City Girls JV Basketball @ Highland
Highland High School , 21504 MO-6 , Lewistown
6:00 pm -
Girls/Boys Junior Varsity Basketball vs Monroe
Highland Jr.-Sr. High Lewistown, MO 63452
6:00 pm -
7-12 Grade Winter Band Concert
Lewis Co. C-1 Lewistown, MO 63452
7:00 pm -
V BB @ Home vs. Heartland 5pm
Knox Co. R-i Edina, MO 63537 -
JV BB @ Atlanta 6pm
Knox Co. R-i Edina, MO 63537 -
JV vs Van-Far
Canton R-v Canton, MO 63435
5:00 pm -
Boys JV/Varsity Basketball vs Bowling Green
Lewis Co. C-1 Lewistown, MO 63452
6:00 pm -
Edina Livestock
Edina Livestock Sales LLC , 307 Main St , Edina
12:00 pm -
JV Boys, V G/B Bball vs. Illini West
Running Fox Elem. Alexandria, MO 63430
4:45 pm -
JV Boys @ Palmyra
Canton R-v Canton, MO 63435
6:00 pm
Wednesday December 17
Thursday December 18
Friday December 19
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Alliance Medical Staffing posted a job opening for Physical Therapist - Rehab, Physical Therapy in Lewistown. Apply here.
- Travel Nurse Across America posted a job opening for Travel Allied - Speech Language Pathologist in Lewistown. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Knox City here.
🗞 Nearby News
Canton
- Culver-Stockton's Kyle Dixon Earns NAIA First Team All-American Honors (lewiscountyscoop.com)
Unionville
- DUI charge filed after Highway 136 crash injures Unionville man (kttn.com)
- Vern 'Gent' Seaton Obituary (northmissourinews.com)
Bowling Green
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don’t know. I can never finish drinking the hot bath!
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