Stories from Friday, August 28, 2009

Sharon Kay Wright, 67, Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo, following a lengthy illness. She was born on July 8, 1942, in Nevada, to Alva Earl "Bud" Mulkins and Gwendolyn Leona "Tiny" Morris Mulkins...

The Women's Health Services Clinics will be held on Sept. 1, Sept. 8, and Sept. 22, for all clients at the Vernon County Health Department on North Washington Street. Other clinic locations are also available in surrounding counties. Participants must call for an appointment and cancellations should be made at least 24 hours in advance. ...

The Nevada Regional Medical Center board of directors met Tuesday in the mezzanine conference room. The first order of business was the Recovery Audit Contractor program, its impact on the hospital and possible ways to deal with issues relating to it...

The snag that has kept the former O'Sullivan property from being utilized for a door manufacturing plant has been overcome and the deal is finally getting underway. The facility is now the property of 1900 Gulf Street Partners LLC. Polymer-Wood Technologies can now begin the process of renovation and production is expected to begin in the fall of 2010...

On Aug. 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned from office. Not for ordering a break-in at the Watergate Hotel, but for conspiring to cover up information. As the scandal broiled in Washington, the 1973 Missouri legislature formed the state's Sunshine Law...

I cannot tell you how many different excuses I have heard over the years from voters who missed casting a ballot in whatever election had just ended. It is actually worse than the excuses I used to hear years ago from students. It just seems that people will grasp about any straw for a reason to avoid their civic duty...