Stories from Thursday, March 6, 2008

I have rediscovered the Game Show Network. I used to watch it occasionally to get caught up on my nostalgia. I loved to watch the old emcees and panelists that I enjoyed when I was at home more often during the daytime hours. Now, since I do my newspaper work at home, I am again at home during the day more than I used to be. Our new arrangement with our TV packages includes the Game Show Network so sometimes instead of watching Judge Judy I turn to that channel...

Nevada's Public Works Director Joe Charles told members of the infrastructure board last week that City Manager Bill McGuire believed that the wording of the transportation sales tax ballot language or the ordinance setting the election would have let him use $200,000 of that tax money to purchase a new street sweeper...

Dear editor: NASA is eager to resume United States spaceflights to the moon. Russia has expressed an interest in going along. China is planning its own mission. The European Community, Japan, India, and even Brazil, are also going through their own lunar desires...

An early morning armed robbery has Nevada Police on the hunt for what they presume is a dangerous criminal. At approximately 9:27 a.m., Tuesday, police responded to a hold up alarm at Show Me the Money Payday Loan Center. Upon arrival they found one employee who had been robbed at gunpoint just moments earlier...

The nomination deadline for Missouri's 2008 Outstanding Older Worker is March 14. Now in its 18th year, the contest is designed to recognize and celebrate older workers and the contributions they make to the workplace. Nominees must be residents of Missouri, at least 55 years of age, and employed at least 20 hours per week...

Vernon County People For Pets will be accepting UPC Labels/wrappers from the following food products "Best Choice," "Always Save" and "Organic Choice." This will be an on-going project for the next 12 months. For every 1,000 labels collected the food processor of these products will donate $30 to the charity...

Missouri has a shortage of qualified math and science teachers and there are several bills in the Missouri Legislature that hope to alleviate the situation by allowing professionals to receive certification. State representative Barney Fisher said that the legislation put restrictions on the process to make sure the students of such teachers received good instruction...

The Community Council on the Performing Arts's latest production, "Cele-bration of the '70s and '80s" is sure to spark pleasant memories and no small amount of toe-tapping. A live band, great vocals by the CCPA Community Choir and talented impersonators and soloists like Kim Bessey, Tim Wells, David Bishop, Sonja Wells, Scott Theis, Teresa Sword, Kenny Jones, Nancy Ross and Linda Carlton promise this to be a show to enjoy...

If you visualize a choir concert as consisting of several rows of expressionless-faced souls dressed in dark-colored robes, standing motionless on a set of increasingly steep risers as they sing from hymnals or sheet music that most often hides their eyes, then you're not visualizing the Nevada Community Choir as, sponsored by Nevada's First National Bank, they perform "Celebration of the '70's and '80's," Thursday through Saturday, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m., at the Fox Playhouse.. ...

It's almost like an old vaudeville joke -- there's good news and bad news. Farmers around the country can look forward to record farm income in 2008 of more than $89 billion, according to a report issued by The University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. ...