Stories from Friday, January 25, 2008

Gov. Matt Blunt today announced an initiative to create at least 47 new manufacturing jobs in Nevada. The Missouri Department of Economic Development has approved state tax credits for $191,298 over a five-year benefit period for Fortner Graphic Solutions, Inc., under the Enhanced Enterprise Zone program to assist with the creation of 47 new manufacturing jobs...

The Nevada Municipal Airport runway will be opening soon. The runway has been closed since June 18, 2007, and will re-open by the first of next week, according to city officials. Representatives from the Missouri Department of Transportation aviation division, Burns and McDonnell Engineering, Emery Sapp and Sons Construction and city staff met and inspected the newly completed runway. ...

A wreck a half mile south of Nevada on Millington Lane resulted in minor injuries for an Albuquerque, N.M., man. Jonathon M. Lathrup, 26, was injured when the 2002 Ford he was driving went off the right side of the road and struck an embankment at approximately 4 p.m., Thursday, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

A beginning vegetable production workshop is slated for Feb. 5 at Rich Hill, in the old school cafeteria. University of Missouri is conducting the workshop, which focuses on the needs of produce auction growers. The 2008 workshop will discuss beginning or basic issues; another seminar to take place in 2009 will discuss advanced topics...

Teresa Holman's work is well known around Nevada, even if it's not known whose work it is. Look at a sign at a Nevada business; if it is hand-painted there is a good chance that Holman painted it. Her work recently was featured in a magazine Auto Art Magazine where she appeared on the cover, in a two-page spread in the middle and on the back cover...

Dorothy Ann Adams, age 77, Fort Scott, Kan., died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, at her home following a lengthy illness. She was born March 12, 1930, in Seminole, Oklah., the daughter of Jesse Pulliam and Lillie Jose Pulliam. Dorothy married Donald Adams on Aug. ...

Ada and Gerald Driggs, of Liberal, Mo., and siblings Dakota, Dannon, and Elisa, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Temperance May Driggs. Temperance was born at 6:26 p.m., on Jan. 22, 2008, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces, and measured 20 inches...

Clyde Richard Higgins, age 75, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died unexpectedly Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, at his home of an apparent heart attack. He was born Sept. 23, 1932, in Richards, Mo., the son of Charley Edgar Higgins and Jennie Victoria Tucker Higgins. ...

John R. Stephens, 76, Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 23. 2008, at Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada, following an illness of several months He was born Nov. 1, 1931, in Nevada, to Charles Stephens and Lizzie Wolfenbarger Stephens. John was born and reared in Walker, Mo., and spent virtually his entire life in Vernon County, Mo. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He made his living as a trucker, a farmer, and later in life as a realtor...

The Nevada Lady Tigers' hopes of winning the Nevada Lady Tigers Classic for a second straight year came to an end Thursday night when the Carthage Lady Tigers beat them 54-46 in a game with six ties and four lead changes. "I'm disappointed we lost, but we did some good things," Nevada head coach Brent Bartlett said after Thursday's game...

The Nevada eighth grade boys basketball teams split their games with El Dorado Springs Tuesday with Nevada's A-team easily beating El Dorado Springs 44-15 and the El Dorado Springs B-team winning over Nevada's B-team 27-21 Andrew Bryson led Nevada's A-team with 12 points, including one trey, followed by Eric Leavell with 10 points and two treys, Joseph Ferry with 10points, Kyle Banes with eight points and Cory Kerbs and isaiah Colopy with two points each...

Head Coach of the Nevada High School Football team Shannon Jolley has officially annoounced his plans to leave his postition with the Tigers. After only his first year as head coach in Nevada Jolley has decided to move to a position within Eldon, Mo., Schools as Athletics Director and Head Coach...

Every now and then we humans like to think we have found within ourselves, an epiphany. Last night, after watching the new movie release, "The Bucket List," I had that sort of personal fervent response. Now in the light of another day, I am once again very normally and humanly confused...

Noted art expert Bernard Berenson sat out World War II in his Italian villa. One day, he admonished a German officer friend, "The Anglo-Saxons will be here in a few days." Regularly he noted in his diary the approach of the "Anglo-Saxons." Say what? Those Teutonic tribes who invaded Britain in A.D. 449 were invading Italy in 1943?...