The Clinton County Leader

06/18/2026

You can win three free weekend passes to this week's Lathrop Antique Show with The Leader!

Catch Outlaw Jim and the Whisky Benders in concert Saturday, or have a rip-roaring time at the tractor pulls! Dozens of tractors, demonstrations and so much more!

Like this post and comment below with your favorite tractor. We'll choose one winner at random to receive the three free passes.

06/18/2026

VIDEO: The 48th Annual Lathrop Antique Show is officially underway! Summer school students at Lathrop Elementary watched this morning’s tractor cruise head out of town.

06/13/2026

It’s a beautiful afternoon in Plattsburg as the community gathers at Perry Park for the annual Juneteenth celebration, hosted by the Clinton County Historical Society.

06/12/2026

The starting time for tomorrow’s Juneteenth celebration in Plattsburg has been changed!

06/05/2026

A packed house this evening as the Clinton County Planning and Zoning Commission begins to hear public input on data processing center regulations. The county has a one-year moratorium on all data center applications, and to date, no company has expressed interest in building a data center here.

05/28/2026

The Lathrop Friendship Festival is off to a royal rumble of start tonight, including the crowning of this year’s Senior King and Queen, Joe Turner and Eva Russell!

05/28/2026

An unknown number of copies of this week's edition of The Leader suffered from a printing error that blacked out a pair of pages. To ensure those pages are available to the public, we're making the May 28 edition of the newspaper free for everyone on our website. You can read that edition through the link below!

Login now to the CLINTON COUNTY LEADER (to 2,000 subscribers each Thursday) Deadline: 4 p.m. Monday Ph: 816.539.2111 Brett Adkison, Editor Editorial Email: [email protected]

05/22/2026

05/21/2026

The Clinton County Commissioners voted today to place a one-year moratorium on all data center applications, giving the county time to consider and formulate zoning regulations around the controversial structures. To date, there have been no applications for a data center in Clinton County. See next week’s edition of The Leader for more on the story.

05/20/2026

It’s the end of an era in Lathrop. Liberty North has announced the hire of longtime Lathrop wrestling coach Rick Mudd. He’ll serve as the girls wrestling coach at Liberty North. Mudd coached at Lathrop for over two decades, rebuilding its boys wrestling program. Since 2012, the boys program has earned five Class 1 state wrestling team trophies (finishing top four in Missouri) while producing numerous individual state, district and KCI Conference champions. Mudd also helped to establish the addition of the girls wrestling program at Lathrop.

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