Mayor praises city staff's storm response
Mayor Eileen Weir commended Independence city workers and volunteers Monday for their response to the June 26 severe thunderstorm that downed tree limbs all across the city and knocked out power to more than 75 percent of Independence Power and …
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Jeff Fox: Retailers invest along 23rd Street
The city of Independence has tallied up a total of $ 11.6 million in private investment on 23rd Street from Noland Road east to Missouri 291 over the last year or so. Others: • The Discount Tire taking the place of the old Ryan's restaurant next to Hy …
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Women who worked in wartime plants celebrated – News – Examiner – Independence, MO
After Norma Bowers graduated from Ruskin High School in 1944, she immediately went to work with aerospace firm Pratt and Whitney. Bowers and a group female plane workers — a group of “Rosies,” as in the iconic Rosie the Riveter — were honored at at …
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