A 40-year-old man from Atchison, Kan. landed in the Andrew County Jail and is faced with two misdemeanor charges.Andrew County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Tate was dispatched to a disturbance in Andrew County involving a child in swaddling clothes and a mother on Feb.
The 2025 Savannah FFA Chapter is gearing up for an extremely busy next couple of months.Career Development Events (CDEs) are set to kick off next week, Friday, March 7, as the chapter heads to Brunswick for its first competition of the year. It is a demanding journey requiring relentless practice both in school and outside of class.At the end of March, the chapter is going to send off its Soybean Innovation Team to Jefferson City.
The Savannah High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) came out with a bang during districts. There were 18 students who qualified for districts, five of which made it to state.Savannah is proud to have such success and hope this group can continue that success at state.Junior Brayden Alley Placed in all three of his events, bringing home two first place medals in Securities and Investments and Economics and a third place medal in Public Policy and Advocacy.
The National Honors Society is in full swing of planning their annual blood drive. Senior Madison Kendall, a member of NHS, is helping lead the blood drive this year.“The annual blood drive this year is on March 13," said Kendall.
The 2025 Savannah High School Quiz Bowl team is coached by Ms. Hannah Bretz and Ms.
Jerry Baker and Mikaila Livingston, Andrew County have been selected for University of Missouri Extension’s Leaders Honor Roll.The Honor Roll recognizes outstanding leaders and volunteers who have helped to advance the work of MU Extension in their communities.“Our dedicated partners and volunteers are vital to carrying out our mission to improve lives, businesses and communities by focusing on Missouri’s grand challenges around agricultural growth, economic opportunity, educational access, and health and well-being,” said Randa Doty. “The Leaders Honor Roll is an opportunity for county extension centers to recognize the many ways volunteers lead and serve at the local and county level.
The Savannah High School swim team proved that despite modest team-size of 11 swimmers, that they were not to be underestimated.Coach Tammy Kime took six girls to state over the course of last weekend."Which was pretty amazing because their are teams with 15 or 20 girls who qualified for state," said Kime.Savage swimmers went to St. Peter's with three relays and three individual events which Kime called a massive success for their season.While Savannah swim's small size puts them at a disadvantage, especially without a steady practice pool and sometimes late practices of varying length, what Kime calls "gusto" kept the team's competing spirit alive."We've driven all over to get to practices," said Kime.
The highlight of a 30-minute Savannah City Council Meeting on Feb. 18 was the swearing in of Zack Long as the new police chief.Long, 46, had been the unanimous choice of the Savannah City Council, with the vote coming after closed session at its Feb.