Stories from Thursday, April 28, 2005

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail Nevada City Councilman Mike Straight died yesterday, following a brief struggle with cancer. Straight, a long-term resident of Nevada, was also owner of Landmark Skate Center, a council member, a father, a husband and had been active on many boards and organizations throughout the years, in Nevada and in other communities. ...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Vernon County and other local officials signed off on an agreement with 3M which would free money now in escrow during a meeting in the county commission office Wednesday. The agreement covers the 2004, 2005 and 2006 tax years, allowing local organizations to make budget projections...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail A group of residents and business leaders met at the Moore-Few Community Room for a discussion on wills and probate. Kendall Vickers, a local attorney, explained the probate process and what people can do to make the process less stressful...

By Laurie Wade Nevada Daily Mail More than 50 citizens gathered at the Vernon County Senior Center in Nevada Wednesday afternoon to hear a presentation about living wills and advanced directives by Kendall Vickers. Vickers is a specialist in elder law at the Vickers Law Firm...

Mark Quitno shows a group of Missouri Main Street volunteers and program directors how Norman Sheet Metal makes the mold that will be used to make the custom stamping die for a piece of stamped metal. From left are Mark Quitno, Lynda Jones, all of Main Street Nevada; Sheri Stuart, National Main Street Center; and Diane Hannah, Clinton Main Street. The group is in town for a training session on issues relating to Main Street organizaitons...

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Naas, and Hali Marlene Durnell, Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Bridget Marie Naas. Bridget was born at 4:15 p.m., on April 22, 2005, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and measured 20.5 inches. Paternal grandparent is Karen Naas, Gower, Mo. Maternal grandparents are Frank and Marlene Folsom, Lenexa, Kan...

Michael M. Straight, 67, Nevada, died Wednesday, April 27, 2005, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, following an illness of several months. He was born June 23, 1937, in Kansas City, Mo., to Harley M. Straight Jr. and Alice F. Chouteau Straight. He married Cheryl Pettibon Shipley on Feb. 17, 1999, in Miami, Okla., and she survives of the home...

Music was always a big part of the background of our home when I was growing up. My parents bought an Edison Victrola when I was a baby. This wonderful, five foot tall, square wooden machine played thick, almost unbreakable records with a special durable needle...

Have you ever noticed how a thriving, pleasant, "normal" life seems to go on in this land, utterly unnoticed in the newspapers and other "media" that affect to report on, and indeed mirror, what's going on? "What's going on," according to them, far from normality, is an endless round of mayhem and political crisis, in an atmosphere of bitter rancor...

100 years ago: M.W.A. log rolling competition held in Nevada The "man with the ax" held the right of way in Nevada today for the very reason that Nevada's big camp of Modern Woodmen of America was host to all the Woodmen in the county and there being so many of these foresters that no one else had any room in the right of way and everybody was exceedingly glad to take siding for the guests...

By Gail Agee Track Reporter Brrrr! That was the word for Saturday night. On top of that we had a full moon to contend with and lots of action and lots of cars. Join us each and every week this year at the biggest little racetrack in the country to catch all the action...

Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Joe Mays pitched six solid innings for his first win since undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2003 and Jason Bartlett drove in three runs, leading Minnesota to a 9-4 victory Wednesday night over the woeful Kansas City Royals...