Stories from Friday, February 26, 2010

Walter "Jerry" Gillespie, 67, owner and operator of Jerry's Alignment and Auto Service, died in the early morning of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, He was the youngest child born on April 30, 19942, to Joseph Clinton Gillespie and Edith Mae Blackwell Gillespie of rural Moundville, Mo...

A federal grant has allowed the Sheldon Fire Department to upgrade their equipment with new self-contained breathing apparatus. The Assistance to Firefighters Grant will give the Sheldon department $57,000 and the department will have to match it with $3,000 of its own money...

The opening of the renovated and renamed Franklin P. Norman City-County Community Center is getting closer. But no date has been set yet, Jeff Post, parks board chairman, said during Wednesday's park board meeting. "We're shooting for the end of March," Robin McHugh, parks and recreation director, said, adding the exact is still up in the air...

The Western Missouri 911 Dispatch Board met at the Vernon County Jail on Thursday, Feb. 18 to discuss several issues related to operation of the facility The meeting was called to order but before the minutes of the Jan. 19 meeting could be certified there was some discussion of the wording of an agreement contained in the minutes. ...

Northeast Vernon County students traveled to Carthage on Feb. 24, to compete in District 17 Future Business Leaders of America competition. The following members received awards. Taylor Ast, first place Word Processing II; Courtney Greer. second place, Computer Applications; Spencer Hoagland, first place, Introduction to Parlimentary Procedures, second place, Introduction to Business Communications; James Manes, first place, Cyber Security, third place, Networking Concepts, and third place, Technology Concepts and Jordan Moyer, third place in Word Processing I.. ...