June 5, 2026
Higginsville Advance News
RETIRED TEACHERS TO MEET
Lafayette County Retired School Personnel (LCRSP) will meet on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at 2:30 P.M., at the FCS Financial Office building, 4100 MO-13 BUS Hwy, HIgginsville, MO. Brigade Command Sergeant Major Retired Don Kerrick Lilleman will speak. Other agenda items include discussion of bills in the MO Legislature that could affect MO public schools and other community services and the PSRS/PEERS retirement system. Retired teachers and support staff, active teachers and support staff, spouses, and the general public are welcome to attend.
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.
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.
LRHC Auxiliary Scholarships Available
The Lafayette Regional Health Center Auxiliary is offering $1,000 scholarships to eligible students.
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.
Montessori Schoolhouse Annual Talent Show
Montessori Schoolhouse Annual Talent Show
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.
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.
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.