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The @LIBERTYSCHOOLS Support Employee Member for 2026-2027 went to Lillian Schumacher's Safety and Security Officer Kyle Hamline. Read more about the award coming soon online at mycouriertribune.com and in the next issue of the Courier-Tribune.

WARRIORS WALK IT OFF. Junior Kyra Janning scores the game winner in double overtime as Smithville girls soccer triumphs 1-0 over Pembroke Hill in the final night of the Smithville Invitational. @LadySmithville improves to 4-2-2.

Currently the strip mall in Smithville that includes Westlake Chinese Restaurant is engulfed in flames. More to come as details are made available.

2/ The @SmithvilleSD Color Run brought out more than 1,000 kids, families and community members to enjoy the spring day. See more photos coming in a future issue of the Courier-Tribune and online at mycouriertribune.com. #colorrun #CommunityJoy

1/ Who can paint with all the colors of the wind? That would be the staff and students lobbing color at the runners and walkers of the @SmithvilleSD's annual Color Run.

2/ The first-graders at Shoal Creek Elementary in the @LIBERTYSCHOOLS sing happy birthday to the country. See more photos and coming story in the coming issue of the paper and at mycouriertribune.com.

1/ The Clay County America 250 committee presented almost 100 challenge coins to first-graders at Shoal Creek Elementary School.

2/ Marc Harrell, the chief inclusion officer at Variety KC, talks about the joy of an inclusive playground in Gladstone. See more in a coming issue of the Gladstone Dispatch and online at gladstonedispatch.com. #inclusion #play

1/Gladstone Mayor Les Smith celebrates the coming inclusive playground at Flora Park on the first day of spring.

2/ Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zach Thompson explains the PROPS initiative, the board and the appreciation of law enforcement in the county. See more photos and coming story at mycouriertribune.com and on Facebook.

1/ Pipers from St. Andrew Pipes & Drums kick off the inaugural PROPS event created by the @claycountymo Prosecutor's office. #lawenforcement

Councilman Gene Gentrup takes a sledgehammer to one of the old police walls in a wall-breaking event to celebrate the @LibertyMissouri Police police building expansion. See more photos coming at mycouriertribune.com and in the coming issue of the Courier-Tribune.

Good evening from Kearney High School. Smithville girls basketball (17-11) is set to play St. Joseph-Benton (20-7) in the Class 4 State Sectionals. @SVilleLWBball is also seeking revenge after falling to the Cardinals Jan. 29. Tipoff at 6 p.m.

INCREDIBLE. Senior Brooke Paalhar (@BPaalhar) with the 3-point buzzer beater to give Kearney girls basketball the 44-41 win over Lincoln College Prep in the Class 5 District 8 Championship. @KHSGirlsHoops advances with a 19-10 record and its first district title in six years.

Kearney again retakes the lead. Senior Brooke Paalhar (@BPaalhar) finds junior Mallyrie Schwab-Wetzel (@mallyriegrace) for the bucket. Bulldogs 41, Blue Tigers 40. 1:14 4Q.

Listen to @SmithvilleHoops senior guard Grant Redline talk about advancing to the district championship with a chance to host it after a win over Southeast in the semifinals: “... This is our moment …”

Tonight also marks 100 career wins for @SmithvilleHoops coach Eric Bennaka.

4/ Jeanne Saylor is taking home the William E. Parks Legacy Award.

3/ The Smithville Lake Festival Committee received the Smithville Parks & Recreation Community Champion award. #CommunityImpact

1/ Friends of Megan's Paws & Claws received the Community Service Award at the Smithville Area Chamber of Commerce's Community Awards Banquet Thursday, Feb. 26.

2/ AJ Mason receives the Junior Citizen of the Year award at the awards banquet at White Iron Ridge.