Stories from Thursday, June 20, 2013

Andrew and Sarah Florio, of Lee's Summit, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their son, Andrew Joseph Florio II. Andrew was born at 5:24 p.m., Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at St. Luke's East, Lee's Summit. He weighed 8 pounds and measured 19 inches. Maternal grandparents are Warren and Marilyn Lovinger, of Nevada...

Mary V. Hunt, 92, of Lockwood, Mo., died Friday, June 14, 2013, in the Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Lockwood. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., Monday, June 17, in the Lockwood United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Travis James officiating. Burial followed in the Lockwood Cemetery...

Barry Dean Stark born on March 18, 1957, passed away on May 29, 2013, after a long battle with kidney and heart disease. Dean has been employed by Southwest Community Service (Nevada Habilitation Center), working with challenged individuals -- a career that started several years ago at Heartland Hospital, in Nevada, and one for which he was very proud. ...

Like the gutters on your house or the chimney on a fireplace, the city sewer mains need regular cleaning and maintenance or they get clogged with roots and other debris and then back-up in basements or yards. Shawn Mittendorf, Alliance Water Resources local manager in Nevada, told the city council Tuesday that they try to have a regular schedule of cleaning and inspecting the sewer lines. ...

When a position came open in the Nevada Daily Mail's advertising department, it didn't take Susie Kalthoff long to find out about it. Her daughter, Sarah Haney, already worked at the newspaper as an editorial assistant and she quickly let her mother know about the opening. Kalthoff applied and was hired as a sales representative, and after a training period has settled into the position...

A financial consultant told Vernon County Com-missioners Wednesday his firm could make the county's debt service fund profitable. Speaking during the commission's regular meeting, Brad Lukens of Arbitrage Management Group, said he could take the $744,000 debt service fund -- required for the public bond on the county jail -- and invest it so it gets enough of a return to pay for managing it and make a little profit...

Charlie Johnson never thought he would do anything but farm. "There's always a great satisfaction at the end of the day when you're working in the fields and you can turn around and see where you've been, when you can see the earth that's been tilled behind you," said the Nevada-born Johnson...

CLARINDA, Iowa -- Clarinda A's starting pitcher Jake Meloche was too much for the Nevada Griffons as the A's won the final game of a three game series Wednesday night, at Eberly Field, by a final score of 3-1. Meloche allowed just one run on three hits in seven innings of working, striking out eight and walking only two to improve his 2013 record to 2-0. Griffons starter Marcus Ethan pitched well until giving up two runs in the sixth inning to give the A's a 3-0 lead...

The National Junior College Athletic Association has designated the Cottey College Comets volleyball team as a 2012-13 All-Academic team. The Comets made the list with a combined team grade point average of 3.13. To be named to the NJCAA All-Academic list, a team's cumulative GPA must be better than 3.0 on a 4.0 scale...