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🌱 What Excelsior Springs’ latest rezoning means for housing on Jesse James

Excelsior Springs, Missouri Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning Excelsior Springs! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • What Excelsior Springs’ latest rezoning means for housing on Jesse James
  • See how a new grant boosts Excelsior Springs’ Vietnam history project
  • How one Excelsior Springs native turned hardship into a helping career

Also on today's calendar: Level 1 Knit Class and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 85 and low of 66 degrees.
  • Saturday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, temps: high: 78, low: 60.
  • Sunday: Mostly cloudy and less humid, with a high of 73 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• City advances housing, lodging plans (excelsiorspringsstandard.com) — Excelsior Springs officials have approved rezoning at 940 North Jesse James Road, clearing the way for three new duplexes and six additional multifamily units. The change from commercial-office to R-3 residential supports expanding existing housing while still requiring the project to meet city development standards and review processes.
   

• Museum receives state grant for oral history project (excelsiorspringsstandard.com) — Excelsior Springs Museum and Archives has secured a $5,000 Missouri Humanities Council grant to support its Vietnam Veteran Oral History Project. The effort ties into the museum’s “Not Forgotten” exhibit, running through November 2027 at 101 East Broadway in historic downtown, and complements the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall’s visit this September.
   

• Challenging experience becomes meaningful career (excelsiorspringsstandard.com) — An Excelsior Springs native, Krissy Evertson, has turned her understanding of the child support system into a 15-year career helping families through the Clay County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. She proudly highlights her Excelsior Springs roots while managing the Family Support Division and guiding parents through often confusing and emotional child support challenges.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Friday June 12
  • Play and Learn: Messy Madness →
    Excelsior Springs Community Theatre, 114 N Marietta St, Excelsior Springs
    10:30 am
    • Saturday June 13
  • Farmers Market →
    Historic Downtown Liberty, Inc Downtown Liberty Square, 1 Courthouse Square, Liberty, 64068, United States
    8:00 am
    • Monday June 15
  • Summer School
    Lawson R-xIV Lawson, MO 64062
    • Wednesday June 17
  • BOE Meeting
    Lawson R-xIV SW Elem. Commons
    6:00 pm

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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