In this edition: July 3, 2025
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Also in this week’s print edition of The Licking News you’ll find:
The Route 63 Car Club Car & Bike Show is Saturday, make plans now to attend!
The Licking Fireworks Show is right around the corner – read about it in Coming Events.
Bottorff’s South-Town Furniture’s retirement sale has larger discounts than ever, see all about it on B1.
Raymondville School is accepting bids. Read about it on B3.
Advertising in The Licking News is a great way to share your business with the community, and we offer a combo rate to place your ad on our website as well, where thousands will view it each week. Check out our other advertisers throughout this edition and on our classified page.
We have two obituaries in this week’s paper, on A2.
A request for prayer is included in this week’s Senior Center Happenings on A2.
Read a fun story about a “Close Call on Pigeon Creek” in 1947, on A3.
The recipient of an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox shared her experience at First Baptist Church of Licking, on A3.
See news from MSU-WP and Phelps Health on A4 this week.
TCMH named their Sunflower Award recipient, signed a contract with a surgeon and is having a blood drive – read the details on A5.
Mark Cooper is in Farmer’s Market Finds this week, and see who retired from SCCC, on A6.
Licking Residential Care celebrates their June Resident of the Month on A6.
Montauk State Park continues to make progress on flood repairs, on A6.
Ozarks Cooks gives us a recipe for No Bake Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie – it sounds delicious!
Rick Mansfield gives us “Fireworks, Freedom and Facts” in this week’s Reflections from the Road.
Veteran Robert Simpson shares “Some Notes on Senior NCOs” in this month’s The Veteran’s Post.
Scott Hamilton talks about “Wireless Energy” used in space in Tech Talk on B1.
Sheriff Scott Lindsey gives us his monthly report in this week’s Behind the Blue, on B1.
MSHP urges you to “Plan a safe July Fourth holiday” and announces their newly graduated troopers on B5.
The Missouri Parks Association is making it easier for making state parks and historic sites accessible to all, with the addition of track chairs that are electric all-terrain wheelchairs. See where they have them in their article on B5.
You can also keep current with reports from the Texas County Courthouse, Texas County Sheriff’s Department, Texas County Commission, MSHP, LPD and Texas County Health Department.
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