SENIOR CENTER MEALS
Lunches provided by area community centers during the week of Jan 31. Palmer Center: 218 N.
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LEARN KEYS TO FARMERS MARKET SUCCESS
The University of Missouri Extension Centers are offering a five-part webinar series designed to help local farmers sell more of their products at farmers’ markets. This program will be held via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m.
Biden: First Black woman justice on high court ‘long overdue’
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Thursday affirmed his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying it was “long overdue.” He praised retiring Justice Stephen Breyer as a model public servant and promised a nominee by the end of February.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Items for the Community Calendar may be emailed to nmelton@examiner.net or mailed to: The Examiner, 300 N. Osage St., Independence, MO 64050, attention Nancy Melton. Also, check the calendar online at examiner.net.
Pope urges parents to ‘never condemn’ their gay children
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis urged parents on Wednesday not to condemn their children if they are gay, in his latest gesture of outreach to the LGBTQ community which has long been marginalized by the Catholic hierarchy.
Missouri panel OKs recall options for school board members
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A bill establishing a recall procedure for local school board members advanced out of a Missouri House committee Tuesday as that bill and others targeting school boards have gained early momentum.
AREA COVID-19 TESTING SITES
University Health: Regular testing hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon. Testing is available at both sites – the Lakewood campus at 7900 Lee’s Summit Road, Kansas City, and the Hospital Hill site at 2211 Charlotte, Kansas City.
INDEPENDENCE POLICE REPORTS
Wednesday, Dec. 29 Arrest • 12:30 a.m., address not provided • 10:32 p.m., 800 block of N.
Town awaits opioid trial verdict
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Sarah Kelly recalls the fleeting moments when she reached out for help during a decadeslong opioid addiction, only to find out no residential treatment beds were available in an overloaded system in her corner of West Virginia.
World remembers the Holocaust
WARSAW, Poland – Survivors recalled their agony to a world they fear is forgetting, Israel’s parliamentary speaker wept in the German parliament and politicians warned of a resurgence of antisemitism on Thursday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day.