
Scale Microgrids is a vertically integrated distributed energy platform that designs, builds, finances, owns, and operates on-site microgrid infrastructure across North America. [1, 2]
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Scale Microgrids is a vertically integrated distributed energy platform that designs, builds, finances, owns, and operates on-site microgrid infrastructure across North America. [1, 2]
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Here is the comprehensive profile of the ONEOK petroleum pipeline system in Nodaway County, Missouri, spanning its corporate history, current operations, landowner easements, and safety records.
Continue readingThe proposed White Cloud Acres AI data center project associated with the Nodaway County region is valued at $4 billion to $6.3 billion, while the co-located Mullin Creek natural gas plant (440 MW) is part of Evergy’s $2.75 billion multi-facility expansion. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Continue readingThe history of the Uniroyal plant in Maryville, Missouri (often mixed up with Maryville, Tennessee due to local tire dealerships) centers on a light industrial hose and rubber manufacturing facility that operated during the mid-to-late 20th century. [1, 2, 3]
Continue readingThe Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing (KMM) plant in Maryville, Missouri, opened in 1989 to produce general-purpose engines for the lawn and garden industry. [1]
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The above photo is from the 1967 Maryvillian
Robert E. Cobb was a journalism teacher at the high school at the time. His son Phil Cobb purchased the Forum from Gatehouse Media in 2013, making Maryville one of the few cities in the country to have a locally owned newspaper. He sold it to the Garners in 2012 and then reacquired it in February 2026. Robert was once city editor for the Forum. He once owned the Albany Ledger, Stanberry Headlight and King City Tri-County News.
Cobb suffered with polio and walked with a cane, but that did not stop him from coaching.

Orval Heywood took many historic photos of Maryville in the 1950s through the 1980s and was also the main photographer for the Forum and Maryville High School yearbook.
While he took thousands of photos, there are relatively few of him during his heyday. This photo is from the 1967 Maryvillian. Robert E. Cobb was a journalism teacher at the high school at the time. His son Phil Cobb purchased the Forum from Gatehouse Media in 2013, making Maryville one of the few cities in the country to have a locally owned newspaper. He sold it to the Garners in 2012 and then reacquired it in February 2026.

Here’s the story of Barney Alcott, editor/publisher of the Forum and Murial McDonald Alcott (Spoofhound and Bearcat teacher) who met in Michigan, graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
C.A. Bristow was Maryville’s longest tenured high school principal