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Here are seven interesting facts about our history here in Excelsior Springs, through the Hall of Waters building: Fact #1 At its height, the Hall of Waters was the most completely outfitted health resort in the state and possible the region. Waters of ten main springs were piped into the longest mineral water bar in the world….
Putting yourself out there isn’t easy. Especially when you’re in middle school. Even if you’re the teacher. It wasn’t easy for seventh-grade language arts teacher Gina Calvin to accept the nomination for Regional Teacher of the Year. She admittedly isn’t one to make a fuss. But, when she was nominated anonymously for the distinction she…
The Race directors of the Opal Wapoo Gravel Experience, Husband and wife team Phil and Stacey Scherer, got a call in the wee hours Friday morning that waters in downtown Excelsior Springs had begun to rise and the race they’d worked so hard to organize may need to be canceled. For those of you not…
By 7:00am texts were coming in from city leadership reporting flooding of Piburn Ballfield, the Hall of Waters, police station, and The Elms Hotel & Spa. With reports of 6+ inches of rain in a 12 hour period of time, along with flooding from the north feeding into the Fishing River, the downtown was overtaken…
