August 17, 2026
Higginsville Advance News
EASTER IS FOR JESUS, SILLY RABBIT!
This Sunday we celebrate Resurrection Day, commonly referred to as ‘Easter’ Sunday. Our Easter message is simple: Celebrate Jesus and His gift. (What is His gift? Read the biblical account of Jesus’ resurrection in the Book of Matthew Chapter 28.)
The Higginsville Advance is Switching to Digital Printing
Something new is coming to the Higginsville Advance. A new, easier to read, more colorful version of the Higginsville Advance will be hitting the streets and landing in subscribers’ mailboxes soon. CherryRoad Media, after reader research and market analysis,decided to redesign the paper into an innovative new colorful tabloid format.
Grandview Elementary Hosts Author Visit for 2026 Show Me Award Nominees
Grandview Elementary students welcomed author Izzy B. and illustrator Ben Askew on Friday, March 13, for a special author visit celebrating their book The Mighty McKraken, one of this year’s Missouri Show Me Award nominees.
Montessori Schoolhouse Annual Talent Show
Montessori Schoolhouse Annual Talent Show
Use Tax Question to be on the Ballot
Lafayette County residents will be asked to approve a reallocation of the county’s use tax in the April 7 election.
LRHC Auxiliary Scholarships Available
The Lafayette Regional Health Center Auxiliary is offering $1,000 scholarships to eligible students.
Counties Facing Reclassification
Lafayette County Commissioners are beginning preliminary work and getting questions answered from the State Auditor’s office as they prepare to navigate the changes of being reclassified as a thirdclass county, Southern Commissioner Michael Brown remarked in a recent Facebook post Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick recently issued notifications to three local counties for reclassification. Pettis, Saline, and Lafayette counties are slated to be reclassified from fourth-class counties to third-class counties. Lafayette County is set to become a third-class county on January 1, 2027.
The theater department at Lafayette County C-1 preformed “The Legend of Robin Hood
The theater department at Lafayette County C-1 preformed “The Legend of Robin Hood...Sort of” March 13-15.
Lafayette County C-1 School Board elections
On April 7th, Lafayette County voters will be going to the polls once again. On the upcoming ballet there will be three candidates for the Laf. Co. C-1 school board. In order to learn more about our candidates, we have asked them to give our readers some information about themselves and their goals for the position. For the next three weeks we will highlight each candidate. We will begin with Mr. Kyle Anderson.