St Joseph Dispatch

Saint Joseph news digest: Top stories today

2021-09-11

(SAINT JOSEPH, MO) Here are today’s top stories from the Saint Joseph area.

Pulled from contributors around the region, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on nearby. For more stories from the Saint Joseph area, click here.

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St Joseph / kq2.com

Presidential vaccination mandate will affect thousands of St. Joseph workers

(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) -- President Joe Biden took his battle to vaccinate Americans straight into the workforce. "All employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated," Biden said during a national address Thursday afternoon. The president said that covers around 80 million people nationally. It... Read more

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The company I work had already done that to us two weeks ago. Everyone has to be vaccinated. Company employees who don’t want to are considered to be voluntarily resigning and union employees will be laid of according to the law off procedures in the contract and possibly not recalled

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I voluntarily got my vaccine. But for the Federal government to make it a requirement, is government over reach. What next will be required we do? Have to where stars if we aren’t vaccinated? What’s next gas chambers if we don’t comply? Wrong on so many levels.

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Local woman wants to turn historic church into outreach center

(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) For Brittany Boggess, the First Baptist Mt. Union Church at 4604 King Hill Ave has always held a special place. "[It] was the church that I was born and raised in," Boggess said. "I was blessed in that church, and I was baptized in that church." Boggess... Read more

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Man taken to hospital after motorcycle vs car crash

(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) A motor vehicle crash involving a motorcyclist and car sent one man to the hospital Friday afternoon. The motorcyclist, a man in his late 20s, was transported to Mosaic Life Care after suffering moderate injuries. According to St. Joseph officers on scene, the accident occurred around 12:30... Read more

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Is the post office building worth saving?

Do you know who was U.S. treasury secretary in 1938?. Before Google, one way to find out was to go to the west side of the main U.S. post office building in St. Joseph. There, a plaque shows Henry Morgenthau Jr. as the treasury secretary that year. He served in the Roosevelt Administration, at a time when the Downtown building opened during a boom in public works construction. Read more

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the building is pretty cool,, small hallways and such, but still kinda neat. 👍🏻 Keep it.

Saint Joseph news digest: Top stories today

Presidential vaccination mandate will affect thousands of St. Joseph workers

Local woman wants to turn historic church into outreach center

Man taken to hospital after motorcycle vs car crash

Is the post office building worth saving?

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