Stories from Thursday, December 22, 2005

Nevada Daily Mail Hume R-8 Superintendent Ryan Huff told the district's board of education during its last meeting that state school funding issues present special problems for small districts like Hume. The district is a member of the Committee for Education Equality, a group comprised of several school districts that filed suit against the state relating to inequities in the state's funding formula for schools last year. ...

Nevada Daily Mail In order to bring you a special Christmas edition of the Herald-Tribune for Dec. 25, the Nevada Daily Mail will not be printed Friday, Dec. 23; however, offices will be open regular hours that day. The Nevada Daily Mail and Herald-Tribune offices will be closed on Monday, Dec. 26...

By Afton Bugg Nevada Daily Mail Budget time will soon be here for the Vernon County Commission. Every year the Commissioners meet with representatives of each of the Vernon County offices to discuss the budgets for next year. The first meeting will be held on Wednesday, Dec. ...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The filing period for Nevada City Council candidates closed at 5 p.m. Tuesday and a final flurry of activity increased the total number of candidates for the three seats up for grabs during the April 4 municipal election to six...

By Afton Bugg Nevada Daily Mail Life Flight-Eagle, in conjunction with Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, has constructed a new helicopter used only for transporting critical care children and babies to Children's Mercy. This is the only air ambulance specifically designed for child-oriented air ambulance transports providing services to Missouri and Kansas...

Arment Billy T. Arment, 79, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Born July 22, 1926 at Rector, Ark., son of the late Gilbert L. and Lottie Taylor Arment, he was a U.S. Army veteran of Worl War II and Korea, and a school teacher and coach in Portageville, Caruthersville, Kennett, and Poplar Bluff, Mo. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Poplar Bluff...

El Dee Keck, 73, Nevada, Mo., died Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005, at the Medicalodge in Nevada. Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 23, at Newton Burial Park, Nevada. Arrangements are by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada, Mo. View obituary and send condolences online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

Mildred Helen Holland, 87, Nevada, Mo., died Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005, at her home in Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada.

When we were first married I made a decision that each Christmas I would add one thing to our Christmas decorations. That way I would build up a good assortment of things for the tree or for the house. It was such a good idea --except that after 59 Christmases we now have so many Christmas decorations that I find it hard to find a proper place to put them all...

The end of an era. Why does the quiet death of a 95-year-old man bring such a thought to mind? He's hardly the only one. Hope Hornback, too, died at 95, earlier in the year. Alice Hill, very much of the same generation, died just days before Franklin...

This infamous editorial was first printed in the New York Sun, 1897, this letter to the editor and the response from Francis Pharcellus Church, editor of that publication. It is reprinted in this issue for your enjoyment. --- Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?...

Nevada Daily Mail Twenty local youth wrestlers competed in Diamond Dec. 17-18, and 19 of them brought home medals. Hunter Mason, Skyler Scotten, Slade Stiles and Tanner Charles each won their division at the tournament. Roger Hardin, Zane Shepherd, Zach Shepherd, Sam Ellifrits and Spencer Scotten each took second...

I am finally getting into the holiday spirit. It only took until one week before Christmas to get me there. It happens more and more every year. I get caught up in work (and play) to the point where I blink and all of the sudden Christmas is a week away...