Stories from Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Timothy Aaron Forst, 24, of Carl Junction, passed away Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, due to an accident near Lamar. Tim was born March 22, 1987, in Lamar, Mo., the sixth of the six children of Leonard and Diana (Andersen) Forst. He graduated from Lamar High School in 2005 and earned certification as a diesel mechanic at Wyoming Tech in Laramie in 2006. ...

A man struck by a Burlington-Northern train at about 2:40 a.m., Aug. 28, at the crossing on southeast 30th Road just east of southeast 30th Lane in Barton County has been identified as 24-year-old Timothy A. Forst of Carl Junction. According to a press release from the Barton County Sheriff's Office, emergency crews who responded to the 911 call found Forst already deceased...

Representatives of two advocacy groups will conduct a community meeting at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 1, dealing with the transitioning of former Nevada Habilitation Center residents into homes around town. The meeting will be at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center...

Area cattle producers can sign up to participate in a two-day management intensive grazing school scheduled Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 7-8, at the Bates County USDA field office, 625 W. Nursery St., Butler. Classroom and field sessions are scheduled to run from 8:30 a.m. ...

Five Boy Scouts and their advisers from Troop 42, Nevada, returned Aug. 4 from a 10-day backpacking trek in the back country of northern New Mexico at the 137,000-acre Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, N.M., Philmont is the most well-known "high adventure" camp operated by the Boy Scouts of America. ...

Osage Prairie YMCA board president Steve Brier shakes hands with outgoing executive director Matt Schneringer, who's resigning to take a position at the helm of the YMCA of the Northwood in Rhinelander, Wisc. Brier also presented Schneringer with a plaque emblazoned with an image of the Osage Prairie YMCA pool, which was constructed under Schneringer's leadership. ...

The Sunday sky was a clear, shocking blue and only a few wispy clouds broke the glare of the midday sun, when after a prayer was said and the national anthem sung, day two of the High Stakes Rodeo Company's MoKan Youth Rodeo got underway with the announcer's voice over the loudspeaker at the Vernon County fairgrounds saying, "let's rodeo."...

The Nevada Daily Mail FORT SCOTT -- The Cottey College women's volleyball team began the 2011 season at the Fort Scott Tournament over the weekend. The Comets went 0-4 against the field, which featured teams from the Jayhawk East Conference. In the first match on Friday, Allen County defeated Cottey 25-23, 25-20, 25-18...

Jason Peake Daily Mail Sports Editor NEVADA -- Three late insurance runs gave the Nevada High School varsity girls softball team some breathing room. Not that Christian Novak and the Tigers needed any. Led by a strong performance on the mound by Novak, the Tigers knocked off visiting Archie 4-0 on Monday afternoon at Bushwhacker Field...