Stories from Thursday, August 31, 2006

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council held a special meeting Wednesday night for the primary purpose of meeting with Robert Saunders in an executive session to discuss the 48 applications he has received for the city manager's position...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman said Vernon County is seeing a jump in the number of daylight burglaries. "We've had several out in the county," Peckman said. Vernon County isn't the only one experiencing the problem...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Wednesday afternoon the Nevada Parks Board voted to approve letting a new men's softball league play on Wednesdays at Twin Lakes starting on Sept. 6. "We are asking for permission for this league to use the fields at Twin Lakes," Ernie Leftwich, league president, told the parks board Wednesday afternoon...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Parks and Recreation Department will again be hosting "5th Quarter" at the City/County Community Center, 200 N. Ash, Nevada, after all regular season Nevada Tigers home football games. The first "5th Quarter" will be on Friday, Sept. 1, 9-11 p.m. Only middle school youth will be permitted to attend. This is a lock-in -- once they arrive they must stay in the building. A parent or guardian must pick their child up promptly at 11 p.m...

Nevada Daily Mail Con artists have begun to strike in Vernon County with a new twist on an old scam. Callers on the telephone claim they represent an insurance company or government agency, then ask for checking account numbers. "One of my customers got a call from New York. They say they need the account number for their Medicare Part D card. It's a scam," said Della Gordon, who's worked in the insurance industry in Nevada for years...

Nevada Daily Mail The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia will be delivering seven courses via interactive television, starting Sept. 18, at the Nevada TeleCenter. These non-credit classes are designed to complement the interests, concerns and lifestyles of the over-50 adult, according to Osher Institute's director, Dr. Lucille Salerno...

Nevada Daily Mail Traditional tours focusing on beef, dairy, crops and forages and horticulture, as well as a special program emphasis on ethanol, will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, Sept. 8, at Missouri University's Southwest Agricultural Research Center Field Day...

Harriet L. Kennedy, 92, Carthage, Mo., passed away Friday, Aug. 26, 2006, at the Maple Tree Terrace Assisted Living Center, Carthage. Harriet was born June 25, 1914, in Carthage to Frank B. Williams and Bess Platt Williams. She graduated Carthage High School in 1931, attended Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Mo., for two years and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1935. She married Tom H. Loy of Aurora, Mo., on June 15, 1939...

I received one of those funny e-mails today asking if I remembered certain things in the past. Some of the things they mentioned were McDonald's hamburgers at 25 cents, ice trays with levers to release the ice cubes, gasoline at 35 cents a gallon, and ugly gym clothes for girls...

Summarized below are some of the genealogical inquiries received in recent months by the Vernon County Historical Society. Readers interested in, or having information about, any of these families are invited to contact the inquirer directly, or the VCHS, at Bushwhacker Museum, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays, telephone (417) 667-9602...

100 years ago Very important meeting tonight At the meeting of the Nevada electric line committee and the Stotesbury committee held last night complications arose that seriously threatens Nevada's interest. After discussing the various questions that came up it was decided to hold a big meeting tonight which time committees will be appointed to attend the meeting at Stotesbury Monday night...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail When Jim Rice is inducted into the NHS Athletics Hall of Fame before Friday's football season opener against Bolivar, it will be the first link between the Hall and the famed 1973 football team that went undefeated. Coached by John Osborne, the '73 team did what only one other in Nevada High School history had done -- win all of its games...

As of Friday, all the 2006 fall sports teams will have made their debut and I've got mixed feelings about what we can expect between now and basketball season. The tennis and golf teams are rebuilding, there's no other way to put it. Tennis could still compete in the conference, depending on what Neosho has returning this fall, but they are young and will have to grow up in a hurry...