Stories from Sunday, February 29, 2004

By Larry Lewis BRONAUGH, Mo. -- The Bronaugh Wildcats wrapped up the regular season with a narrow 50-47 loss to the Jasper Eagles on Friday. Bronaugh, losers by double-digit margins in two previous encounters with Jasper, kept the outcome in doubt until the final horn this time...

Cottey College Comets volleyball coach Marla Kannady welcomes the team's newest recruit. Rachel Cordier of Greenbrier High School in Augusta, Ga., signed a letter of intent to play for the Comets in early February. Cordier, a setter, joins a Cottey team coming off the first winning season in its abbreviated four-year history...

It seems that no matter how stupid the National Football League gets, something comes along to save the day like a good game. How can any organization in its right mind, with the whole world watching, hire MTV of all things to run the halftime show at the Super Bowl? That's not stupid. ...

While walking in the woods over the weekend, while the temperature hovered around 60, I heard and saw signs of spring, and it was a good feeling. After looking for shed deer antlers, I heard peepers sounding off around my pond and even heard a big gobbler make several gobbles. I noticed some early flowers starting to pop up through the cold ground...

Hi neighbors. If you can stop leaping about for a second, we can have some coffee and figure out how we earn an extra day every four years. We've heard it all our lives. The dudes who came up with our calendar had to do some juggling to get the hours to work out right. To keep a 24 hour day and seven day week, they had to nip and tuck and few minutes here and there...

Like most aging white Americans, I suppose, it looks to me, when I see kids dancing these days, as if they are in the throes of a serious physical seizure. Where do they learn these various exotic and herky-jerky moves? The black ghetto is the birthplace, I guess, of many of them.. As for me, I like to remember my own youth, and the way I learned how to dance...

100 Years Ago - February 29, 1904 UPDATE -- Lafe Anderson who kindly cashed a check for Frank Parker, seems to be in about the same fix as R.S. Crabtree, holding a check that he so far has failed to get cashed. Anderson's check is for $15 and was returned to him protested. ...

By Lynn A. Wade When Scott Eastman was 15, he came to Nevada for the first time. It's a fond memory of the misadventures of youth -- but that's not why he's back. Every Tuesday, Eastman comes back to Nevada to play his guitar and sing for the supper crowd at Woody's Wood Fire Pizza...

By Ralph Pokorny A recent pay increase for Nevada's city manager and city clerk, amounting to about 10 percent of each person's former salary raised eyebrows and questions, but Nevada Mayor Bill Edmonds and Whitney Davis, the city's human resources manager, both said it was all due to an oversight that had resulted in lower-than-normal pay increases for those two positions in the past...

By Justin Baldwin When you buy feed -- especially feed as expensive as high-quality alfalfa -- it is important that it goes into the animal and stays there to do some good. At Friday's 2004 Alfalfa Expo, University of Missouri Extension Office Livestock Specialist Al Decker provided a presentation on the quality and value of alfalfa hay...

By Steve Moyer Bob Adams retired from the Nevada Parks and Recreation department Friday amid friends and family, who joined in celebrating his 23 years of service to Nevada with cake, cookies, punch and punch lines. Adams received a lot of jovial teasing from the crowd of friends and co-workers, who obviously held him in high regard...