Sedalia Democrat reporters received several awards in the annual Kansas City Press Club competition among papers of less than 50,000 circulation.
Sarah Nail won a gold award for general reporting for her story about the Pettis County road department’s overspending its road-building budget by several hundred thousand dollars last year.
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