Cole County neighbors seek pause in upcoming auction of farmland that was intended to become county park

Cole County neighbors seek pause in upcoming auction of farmland that was intended to become county park

COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) By Wednesday afternoon, the Cole County Commission will decide if it will ask Hawthorn Bank to pause an upcoming land auction, just 11 days away. Lawrence Renn Jr. left his 178-acre Elston farmland to become a county park. He created a trust, leasing the land to the county after his death in 2021. But questions about what the trust says, how much money is available and other issues led the county to withdraw from the trus…

Push to save late Cole County farmer's land grows desperate

Friends of the late Lawrence Renn Jr. continue their push to make Renn's 170 acres into a park, as he intended.