Stories from Sunday, May 6, 2007

Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- If you could be a famous character from history -- anyone you choose, who would you be? Bess Truman? Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? Helen Keller? Chautauquans are more than just historians. Their task is to research and become that character on stage, and to share not only history, but a piece of who that person was with the audience...

Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- The Bushwhacker Steering Committee is pleased to announce the theme for this year's 43rd Bushwhacker Days and Bushwhacker Parade. With an appreciation for the countless hours spent by numerous volunteers, the committee has selected Bushwhacker V.I.P. Days 2007 as the theme for the four-day community festival, with V.I.P. meaning "Volunteers Initiate Pride."...

By Brett Dalton Herald-Tribune Fort Scott, Kan. -- A variety of issues make up the agenda for Monday's USD 234 Board of Education meeting. The meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the BOE building, 424 S. Main St. After approving the official agenda and the consent agenda, the board will formally recognize Fort Scott High School math teacher Morgan Croan as the recipient of the PSU Outstanding Educator Award for 2007. ...

By Michael Glover Herald-Tribune Fort Scott, Kan. -- A group of graduate students from the University of Kansas offered suggestions on Friday to a committee that has initiated a plan to build a riverfront project on the Marmaton River. Since February, 10 students from KU's Urban Planning Environmental graduate class have studied a plan devised by the Develop The River As An Asset committee...

By Steve Moyer Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- Hospice is a special kind of care designed to provide comfort care as well as spiritual and emotional support for people in the final phase of a terminal illness. Hospice focuses on enhancing the quality of life, rather than the length of life. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death; it affirms life and regards dying as a normal process...

Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- Lights. Sound. Style. Studying the elements of theater has been the primary objective in Janet Reed's Introduction to Theater class this semester, and on March 31, students were treated to a Broadway-class production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," a musical version of the Genesis story of Joseph and his brothers, performed live at the Music Hall in Kansas City, Mo...

Herald-Tribune A Fort Scott woman was injured in a single vehicle accident shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday when her vehicle went through a pond off Kansas Highway 31. At 9:45 p.m., Heather C. McDaniel, 30, of Fort Scott, was driving west on K 31 at Mapleton when her 1998 Mercury vehicle went off the road, hit a fence and skidded through a pond. The vehicle came to a rest in a nearby pasture, according to Kansas Highway Patrol. She was the only occupant of the vehicle...

Robert Lee Armstrong, 99, Tacoma, Wash., formerly of Nevada, Mo., passed away on May 2, 2007, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tacoma following a recent illness. He was born May 16, 1907, in Nevada, to Commandore Perry Armstrong and Mabel Phillips Armstrong. He married Margaret White on March 7, 1945, in Leavenworth, Kan., and she preceded him in death in 1988...

Irene Frances Wilson, age 97, Bronson, Kan., died Thursday, May 3, 2007, at Moran Manor in Bronson. She was born Dec. 2, 1909, to Clarence and Edna Thompson Haynes in Bronson. She was a lifelong resident of Bronson. She was baptized in Bronson on May 30, 1926. ...

Lawrence Monroe Lawson, age 79, formerly of Schell City, Mo., was born May 22, 1927, in Greeley, Colo., to Harrison Voll and Viola May (Hollingsworth) Lawson. He passed away April 25, 2007, at the Lee's Summit Hospital in Lee's Summit, Mo. Memorial services were held at 10:30 am., Saturday, May 5, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home, Schell City, with bro. Tim Brewer officiating. Interment was at the Green Lawn Cemetery, Schell City...

Hi neighbors. It's only a week until Mother's Day. I hope you have already made plans to honor your mothers. I think we all assume our mother is the one person that will always be in our lives. The lucky ones of us have always had that special woman with us...

Headquarters, Lexington, May 5, 1863 General: I have the honor to report that Captain Morris returned last evening from the Wellington neighborhood, bringing 27 prisoners and having in other respects carried out orders. Another officer goes into that section today with similar orders. On last night the same 4 thieves visited Wellington and robbed the Post-Office and cut the telegraph wire...

Carolyn Gregory shared the following piece titled, "School Answering Machine." This is the message that the Pacific Palisades High School staff voted to record on their school telephone answering machine. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children's absences and missing homework...

By Joe Warren Herald-Tribune NEVADA, Mo. -- Nevada placed second in both boys and girls competition at the Southwest Conference track meet Friday, held at Testman Field. The Tigers had three winners on the boys' side, and the girls won three individual events and a relay en route to runner-up status in the SWC...

Herald-Tribune INDEPENDENCE, Kan. -- Both of Fort Scott High School's doubles teams will be going to the Kansas Class 4A State Tournament after finishing in the top four at the Independence Class 4A Regional Tournament Friday. Bryce Hart and Stephen Buntain finished in second place while Sam Johnson and Corey Chandra placed fourth...

By Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- A severely under-manned Parsons team was only able to bring eight players Friday for a make-up Southeast Kansas League doubleheader against Fort Scott High. But the Tigers took just under two hours to complete a 15-0, 15-0 sweep at Ellis Park, used because Don Hewett Field couldn't be made ready in time...

Willie, Mickey and the Duke. Were it not for the song by that name, I suppose a lot of today's fans would never have heard of that great trio of center fielders from 1950s New York baseball. It really hit me when I entered Lyons Stadium for an early season Nevada Tiger baseball game. ...

As the spring gobbler season runs down, fishing is going strong with crappie in area lakes furnishing lots of action as the fish move closer to shore to spawn. In spite of all the recent rain, anglers have been taking limits of crappie from Truman, Pomme, Lake of the Ozarks and Stockton. Wednesday, Jim Butler, Lamar, had a good day at Truman by catching his limit of crappie in less than an hour...