Stories from Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Glenn Allen Wooldridge, 75, formerly of Moundville, died on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, at the Barone Alzeheimer Care Center, in Nevada following a lengthy illness. He was born on March 14, 1934, to Carl and Eva Hartzfeld Wooldridge. On Dec. 18, 1954, he was married to Alta M. ...

Feb. 13 A burglary was reported in the 200 block of West Hickory, made my Mickey Mason, of Nevada. He reported a chainsaw stolen. An accident occured at 12:56 a.m., at Roadhouse's parking lot, involving an unknown vehicle and a parked SUV owned by Shawn R. Stewart, of Nevada. No injuries were reported...

Several members of the Nevada High School Debate and Forensics squad earned honors at the Joplin Heart of the Ozarks Tournament on Feb. 12 and 13. Freshman Jason Yarber took second out of 55 contestants in prose and poetry interpretation, junior Teryn Greer placed third out of 41 students in radio speaking, and senior Justin Carter took sixth in Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking out of 27 others...

City of Nevada dog licenses must be purchased or renewed by March 1, and the last of a series of clinics hosted by the city is slated for Feb. 20, from 1 to 3 p.m., with Dr. Brad Copeland from the Nevada Veterinarian Clinic, at the Marmaduke Park community building...

The calendar for the 2010-'11 school year was on the agenda for the Hume School Board at it's meeting Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 8:30 p.m. The board gave preliminary approval for the calendar, which requires a public hearing before it can receive final approval because the proposed start date is Aug. 24, and state law requires such a hearing when a district starts school sooner than 10 days before Labor Day. The hearing will be held 7:15 p.m., March 10, before the next scheduled board meeting...

The Franklin P. Norman City-County Community Center is almost complete and Robin McHugh, parks and recreation director, is moving her office into the new facility. "Crossland has given us the key for the interior," Harlan Moore, interim city manager, told the city council during their Tuesday night meeting...

With a home game in the opening round of the Region XVI tournament on the line, the Cottey College Comets hosted St. Louis Community College-Meramec Tuesday night in a rematch from early January. In the previous meeting between the two teams in St. Louis, Mo., the Comets needed an extra period to pull out a 63-60 victory. That was not the case in front of the home crowd as Cottey was able to pick up a fairly easy victory Tuesday night by a final score of 79-57...

Free throws can be a basketball team's best friend or its worst enemy. Free throws were far less than kind to the Nevada Tigers varsity basketball team Tuesday night in a 52-43 loss to the Butler Bears at Wynn Gymnasium. In the nine-point loss, the Tigers made just four of their 15 attempts from the charity stripe, creating a far less than favorable situation that the Bears were eventually able to take advantage of on their way to their 12th win of the year. ...