Stories from Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Nevada Daily Mail A Soldier from Walker, Mo., has returned home after assisting the Missouri National Guard on a humanitarian service exercise in Guatemala. Sgt. 1st Class Doyle Beckman, Company A, 311th Brigade Support Battalion, Nevada, served in the exercise, known as New Horizons '07 Guatemala, as a water purification supervisor during his two-week deployment that ended March 3...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council has a short agenda on tap for Tuesday night's council meeting. Among the items they will be considering will be the second reading of a special ordinance granting Aquila a 10-year franchise to provide street light service to the city...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The Moundville city council is serious about keeping the city clean. George Bragg found that out the hard way and the city council is hoping that any one else who can't keep their property clean takes the hint. The Village of Moundville has several ordinances on the books regarding property maintenance and for the second time in less than a year they have had to take action...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada High School Show Choirs are one step closer to making an appearance at both the FAME World Cup Invitational and the FAME Show Choir Invitational. Both competitions are slated for April. The Soundsational Singers have been invited to compete in the World Cup Competition on April 14, and the Treble Effects have been invited to the Show Choir Invitational the following weekend...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Rotary Club sponsored its first International Wine and Food Fest at the Nevada Country Club on Saturday, March 10. The event featured a presentation of family wines by Andrea Ebert of the Schloss Saarstein & Wirsching Vineyards in Germany. ...

Travis and Jina Potter, Caney, Kan., are proud to announce the birth of their son, Blake Scott Potter. Blake was born on Jan. 17, 2007, at Jane Phillips Memorial Hospital, Bartlesville, Okla. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 20 inches. Maternal grandparents are Harvey and Connie Gerster, Schell City, Mo...

Mitchell Keith "Mickey" Moburg, 67, Nevada, Mo., passed away Sunday, March, 18, 2001, at his home in Nevada, Mo., following a sudden illness. He was born March 7, 1940, in North Kansas City, Mo., to Oliver Andrew Moburg and Genevieve Murdock Moburg. He married Georgia Duke on Sept. 11, 1970, in Mesa, Ariz., and she survives of the home...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School track team started the 2007 season at the Mule Relays held on the campus of Central Missouri Monday, in Warrensburg. Three Tiger performers earned top-10 status as Molly Ferree took seventh in the girls' high jump with a leap of 4 feet, 7 inches...