City News
Downtown business owners were invited to a Listening Session on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, hosted at Casa Di Vite International Wine Cafe. City of Excelsior Springs Economic Development Director Melinda Mehaffy and Downtown Excelsior Partnership Director Lyndsey Baxter led the group of over twenty local business owners, in an open discussion on whether to propose…
On November 8, 2022, voters in Missouri approved a ballot initiative legalizing the recreational use of marijuana by a 53-47 margin. Subsequently, adults aged 21 and above were legally allowed to possess marijuana on December 8, 2022, while the first licensed sales took place on February 3, 2023. The move comes as a growing number…
Excelsior Springs has received a grant of $3,891,114 from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR), funded by ARPA, for the reconstruction of the N. Main Bridge, terracing along the Dry Fork River, and for rehabilitation of the “old laundry parking lot”. The city plans to match the grant with a Capital Improvement Program allocation…
After Excelsior Springs native Tom McKown was killed in a tragic boating accident at Lake of the Ozarks on August 21, 2022, his family and friends began searching for a way to memorialize the man they so sorely miss. Tom was an avid golfer, he grew up playing at the Excelsior Springs Golf Course where…
