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By Shari Harris, Publisher A business with more than 60 years of history in Licking received a new name last week when PJ’s Cafe became Feedlot Cafe. The restaurant was purchased by Wanda and Larry Moncrief on July 24, 2022, and customers have seen gradual changes at the business since then. In the mid- to…

MSHP WILLOW SPRINGS, Mo. (April 20, 2022) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control announced the arrest of Jacob D. Hearne, 19, of Mtn. View, Mo., on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. On April 19, 2022, the Mtn. View Missouri Police Department requested the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug…

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Submitted by Pat Burton, LPD Chief of Police On April 21, 2022, at approximately 9:41 a.m., the Licking Police Department was notified of an incident that occurred on April 19, 2022, involving an eighteen-year-old male, identified as Jackie Lee Bates, making sexual contact with a five-year-old female. The Licking Police Department responded and initiated an…

By Shari Harris, Publisher After a two-year hiatus, the Easter Bunny and volunteer assistants from Hickory Manor resumed the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Licking’s Old City Park Saturday, April 16. It was a good turnout on a sunny but crisp day, and the Easter Bunny and volunteers put smiles on the faces of the…

In addition to the current media postings, in this week’s print edition of The Licking News: Rick Mansfield shares the many languages, different words and other ways of thinking in “Languages Learned.” Larry Dablemont is again talking turkey and asks the question “How Low Can They Go?” This is National Volunteer Week, and several volunteers…

By Christy Porter, Managing Editor Matthew shared Jesus’ foretelling of his death in chapter 16, verse 24. “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, ‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.’” Volunteers exuberantly shared their faith on Good Friday, in Licking and along Hwy.…