• Tickets will be limited for the season opener of a Texas County football team. Cabool travels to Doniphan, where the first ever varsity game is planned. Cabool has 100 advance tickets to offer at its high school office. Doniphan played junior varsity for two seasons.
• Last week marked the last time visitors to the Missouri Capitol can walk up to the top of the building’s iconic dome until the year 2020. The top of the dome has a small, circular observation deck with panoramic views of the Jefferson City and the Missouri River. It’s also dirty and needs a lot of repair, so it’s being closed for renovation. The work is the second part of a two-phase project to completely restore and renovate the century-old Missouri Capitol. The total cost of the work is about $55 million. The figure includes contract design before the work started.
• Odds and ends: A downtown betterment group — Licking Downtown Inc. — has concluded that an old theatre building is beyond repair. It had been considered for renovation…Wright County’s sheltered workshop has moved into new quarters on 17 th Street in Mountain Grove. The structure covers 9,500 square foot. An open house is Sept. 29…
• Around town: Repairs are underway on a Main Street bridge that sustained damage in late April 2017 near Emmett Kelly Park.
The City of Houston is undertaking the project. That portion of the street has remained closed since the storm, which caused significant damage along Brushy Creek. FEMA is paying for the improvements. Other work may occur at the bridge, but that has not been determined yet.
• Attention Donald “Debo” McKinney: They may be cute, but wild otters have been “on a rampage” at Taneycomo trout businesses, according to the Springfield News-Leader.