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By Christy Porter, Managing Editor The annual Kingtown Cruise-In that began in memory of Danny Hebblethwaite was held Saturday, also now in memory of Dennis King, co-coordinator of the event which is in its sixth year. Doug Hebblethwaite, son of Danny, and Dennis King, Danny’s nephew, began the event in tribute to Danny. It now…

The Licking City/Rural Fire Department responded to a report of a fire inside of a building at Ozark Shavings on Staples Lane on Saturday evening, June 3, at approximately 8:36 p.m. Two engines and two tankers responded from the Licking City/Rural Fire Department, with a total of eight personnel. A command post was established and…

  By Christy Porter, Managing Editor Licking Librarian Lee Ann Akins was busy registering children, ages three to 12, on Thursday, for the library’s 2023 Summer Reading Program. Librarian Brandi Smith treated the kids to buttered popcorn as they enjoyed a movie, “Magic School Bus-Space Adventure,” while adults completed the paperwork. The theme for the…

By Christy Porter, Managing Editor U.S. military personnel who died in the active service of our country were honored, remembered and mourned on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29. Veterans and the auxiliary from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Licking Post #6337 held a Memorial Day Ceremony at the Memorial for the Fallen. Veterans, members of…

In addition to the current media postings, in this week’s print edition of The Licking News: The Rodeo is coming to town! See this week’s Licking R-VIII Athletes of the Week, sponsored by Rinne Tire. Licking Post & Timber and Salem Post & Timber are now hiring. PCR-III shared their eighth grade graduates. President’s and…

By Christy Porter, Managing Editor The 14th Annual 2023 Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Missouri (LETR) was held on Friday. The LETR began in Cabool, continued in Houston and was completed in Licking at the Licking Rodeo Grounds via Hartville Road. Licking K9 Officer Kaleb Berkshire escorted South Central Correctional Center (SCCC) staff…

It’s Rodeo time! Friday and Saturday mark the 38th Annual Licking Chamber of Commerce Rodeo. This year’s rodeo company is the Outlaw/5J Rodeo Company, owned and operated by Lance and Joey McCollum and family. Lance McCollum was raised in a rodeo family and started bull riding in 1992. He competed in the PRCA, MRCA, URA,…

Photos by Shari Harris

By Christy Porter, Managing Editor Pool managers Kerrie Sanchez and Candice Shepherd, along with pool employees, were ready for the water fun to begin at the Licking Aquatic Center, which opened on Saturday. Young and young at heart arrived even before the gate opened. The Aquatic Center will be open Monday through Thursday, 12 –…