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How to Schedule a Demand-Response Kirk-Tran Ride

Kirk-Tran demand response is an advance-scheduled point-to-point service operated by OATS. Current public information includes weekday service, city and surrounding-area fares, and advance reservation deadlines.

Why KTVO Built One of America’s Tallest Television Towers

KTVO’s unusually tall towers were engineering answers to a difficult two-state coverage problem, not architectural stunts.

Rock Lake Conservation Area: A New Public Greenspace Taking Shape in Kirksville

Rock Lake Conservation Area in southern Kirksville covers about 276.5 acres around a 15-acre lake, with prairie restoration underway and City-MDC recreation planning still developing.

Old Baldwin Hall: Reconstructing Truman’s Lost Landmark

Truman’s original Normal Building was completed in 1873, renamed Baldwin Hall in 1905 and destroyed with Library Hall in the January 1924 fire.

Party Line: The Kirksville Radio Program That Became a Community Marketplace

KIRX Party Line remains an on-air buy, sell and giveaway program for private individuals, preserving a radio-based local marketplace that predates web classifieds.

Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery: Kirksville History, Records and Visiting the Grounds

Kirksville’s oldest cemetery dates to 1845 and has more than 3,600 recorded burials, with City records organized by name and cemetery section.

Memorial Park in Kirksville: Recreation and Veterans Memorial History

Memorial Park offers a playground, shelter, basketball and pickleball court, restrooms and walking loop, while its former major memorial artifacts now stand near Rotary Park.

Walking and Biking Trails in Kirksville: Choose the Right Route

Kirksville walking and biking options range from paved urban paths to FLATS connections and natural-surface trails at Thousand Hills State Park, with different surfaces and permitted uses.

Parking, Rental Cars and Ground Transportation at Kirksville Regional Airport

Parking at Kirksville Regional Airport is currently free. Rental-car, taxi and shuttle options exist, but small-market transportation availability changes, so passengers should arrange ground transportation before travel.

The Kirksville Brick Industry: What Happened to Adair Brick & Coal?

Adair Brick & Coal was organized in 1908 after J.M. Ivie & Son experimented with paving brick west of Kirksville, but the company’s later fate remains only partly documented.

Starting a Business in Kirksville: From Zoning Check to Business License

Kirksville’s strongest startup advice is to confirm zoning before signing a lease, then handle state registration, City licensing, inspections and project-specific permits in sequence.

How to Research the History of a Kirksville House

The history of a Kirksville house can be reconstructed by combining assessor and deed records with directories, Sanborn maps, census records, newspapers and preservation surveys.

Lincoln School: Recovering the History of Kirksville’s Segregated Black School

Kirksville’s Lincoln School served Black students under segregation, with the surviving 1914 building at 907 S. Wabash representing a longer educational history that began decades earlier.

The 1993 EDUCOM Technology Study at Northeast Missouri State University

A 1993 EDUCOM consulting report warned that Northeast Missouri State’s academic mainframe was too small for heavy-use periods and became part of the campus technology debate documented in 1995.

KCOM Goes Online: Reconstructing Osteopathic Medicine’s Early Kirksville Web Presence

By 1999, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine had active kcom.edu email, faculty Web material and an official public website.

How to Find and Read Kirksville City Ordinances

Kirksville's codified ordinances are available through MuniCode, but newly adopted ordinances may appear in Council records before the next code supplement. Use the code, meeting records and City Clerk together when timing matters.

Kirksville’s First Airport and the Man Who Started It

The City traces Kirksville’s first established airfield to a small grass strip north of town in 1924 owned by Roy B. “Cap” Dodson.

Kirksville’s Internet Roots: From 1991 Campus Networking to the Broadband Era

Kirksville’s digital history runs from pre-Web academic email and BITNET through institutional domains, local websites, dial-up and early broadband.

The Earliest Web Pages Hosted at Truman State University

By the late 1990s, Truman’s Web presence extended well beyond a central homepage into faculty pages, academic projects, museum material and other decentralized content.

The Bell Wall: Where Northeast Missouri’s Retired Bells Go to Live

Truman's Bell Wall contains five historic bronze bells collected from old churches, schoolhouses and public buildings around Northeast Missouri, making it both public art and an extremely dignified retirement home for notification hardware.