Stories from Thursday, August 26, 2010

Patricia Jenkins, 84, Kansas City, Mo., passed away on Aug. 23, 2010, at the KC Hospice House, surrounded by her loving family. Patricia was born in Fairmount, Mo., on Sept. 5, 1925. She was the only daughter of seven children born to Roy C. and Juanita (Cutler) Reed. ...

Lawrence Ernest Bowles, 87, a former resident of Deerfield, and more recently of Mapleton, Kan., died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at his home. He was born Oct. 4, 1922, in Deerfield, the son of Arthur E. Bowles and Almeda Burris Bowles. He married Una E. ...

August 20 4:45 p.m.: An accident occurred at U.S. 54 and Business 71 highways involving a car driven by Dustin A. Smith, Lynchburg, Mo., and a car driven by Shannon M. Humbard, Butler, Mo. No injuries were reported. Regina McPeak reported a vehicle theft in the 400 block of South Johnson Drive. Item stolen was a 1997 Dodge Stratus...

The closing of the Nevada Habilitation Center is a complex and often emotional issue that has some of those involved adamantly opposed and others all for the change. Some have a mix of both sentiments toward the bureaucratic decision to shut the facility down...

It took the Nevada City Council all of five minutes Wednesday night to complete both items on the special meeting's agenda before adjourning to an executive session to discuss the possible purchase or sale of real estate as permitted under Missouri Sunshine Law...

The Infrastructure Board will meet today, at 6 p.m., in the Council Chambers, located inside the Public Safety Building at Ash and Austin, to discuss this year's Street Improvements. The Infrastructure Board will begin preparing a street list for the 2011 Street Improvements during their next meeting which will be held in September. ...

The Mary Whitney Phelps Tent No. 22 Tent (Chapter), Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865, based in Springfield, Mo., has announced publication of its 400-page book on Civil War historical markers and monuments in 24 southwest Missouri counties. Those counties include: Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Hickory, Howell, Jasper, Laclede, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Ozark, Polk, St. Clair, Stone, Taney, Texas, Vernon, Webster, and Wright...

Locally, except for the Northeast Vernon County ballot question that was recently presented to the R-1 school board, there isn't much interest in what's on the Nov. 2 ballot locally. Some of the statewide proposed amendments and propositions aren't generating much interest either, except to limited audiences. ...

A display set up in the meeting room of the America's Best Value Motel shows off some of the items the Treasure Hunter's Roadshow have acquired in their travels around the country. Items are as varied as a vintage Dobro guitar and a toy player piano to militaria such as German World War II helmets and bayonets to an old carbide lantern. The items that come in most however are gold and silver coins and jewelry according to Dwayne Hall...

I did not graduate from Nevada High School since we spent all of the school year in Washington, D.C. But most of my Nevada childhood and teenaged friends were graduates. Reading about the all class school reunion coming up, I began to think about what the graduates of 1943 (which was my class at Woodrow Wilson High School) would think about the changes in Nevada since they left. ...