Sedalia needs $7.2 million to complete its upcoming slate of projects.
Among them: a new fire station, a repaired bridge and a repaired library — a library that seems to reveal a little more damage each and every week. If it were less historic, less significant and less grand, we might just see fit to tear it down and build a new one for the price we’ll pay — but we’re not doing that.
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