Montgomery City News

The Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce said Thursday it will no longer at tempt to participate in the search for a new superintendent for Montgomery County Public Schools, but the Montgomery County Commission will con sider whether some members may participate in the on-site in terview process next week.

Freddie Williams Jr., a spe cially trained instructor for the General Educational Develop ment exam, or GED, shows up twice a week for three hours a day to prepare inmates at the Montgomery City Jail for the high school equivalency exam.

State Rep. Alvin Holmes is calling upon the white members of the Montgomery City Council and the Montgomery County Commission to stop interjecting race into the Montgomery Coun ty Board of Education's search for a new superintendent.

Some members of the community are not happy that their presence will not be welcomed during the Montgomery County Board of Education's upcoming on-site interviews for two school superintendent finalists.

Prostitution has been called the "oldest profession," and efforts to combat it in Montgomery will never succeed in wiping it out.

It is hard for many to even imagine how these women came to walk the streets. It is even more difficult coming up with a plan to get them to stop.

The Montgomery City Coun cil's work session is being moved to accommodate the large crowd that is expected for the discussion on the junior high athletics program.

Some parents of Montgomery County junior high students are in distress over the possibility their kids may lose their athletics programs.

The Montgomery City Council will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the council chamber at City Hall.

A Montgomery City Councilman hopes that a job fair will help teenagers find something productive and profitable to do over the summer.

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Sophomore Shaina Percy died April 6 of injuries from an April 3 car accident near Montgomery City.

A St. Peters man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a shooting rampage in 2006 that killed a Montgomery County woman and injured a police officer and another man.

Prosecutors said Bryan Tullock's trial would have featured 64 witnesses and could have gone on for two weeks.

A St. Charles County man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a 2006 shooting spree that killed a woman and injured two other people, including a police officer.

Montgomery City celebrated a little of its own madness Friday afternoon. The Montgomery City Elementary School faculty played their own Memphis-Mizzou game.

The ride from Leah Yordt's Montgomery City home to Columbia Family Dental Center is more than an hour, and Leah has waited a year for her 2-year-old son, Jayson Yordt, left, to nab an appointment with Brian Fischer.

The six mayoral candidates have maintained their financial standings in the race, with one candidate, Todd Strange, leaping ahead but not reaching the goal he initially stated.

The early taste of spring we've enjoyed for the past few days is about to bite back at us.

The St. John's Hospital - Lebanon Community Network Breakfast will tackle an economic topic at its meeting at 8:30 a.m. March 4 in the hospital's main conference rooms.