Stories from Friday, February 15, 2008

Nevada Daily Mail A Nevada native has been recognized by a national publication for her role in a company named in the top 25 businesses for working mothers. Veterinary Associates is a Tulsa based animal clinic which also happens to employ Christine Kunzweiler, a former Nevada resident...

Nevada R-5 patrons who are pushing for a new field house can breathe a little easier now, the board has approved a new 3,500-square-foot facility. The project will be put out for bids Feb. 29 with the bids being due back by 2 p.m. March 27. The new field house will feature two locker rooms, each with its own bathroom and showers, a storage room with an overhead door, an ice machine, a washer and dryer, a coaches' office and a 21-by-31 foot meeting room...

Ask Wes Morton about the accomplishments of the mixed choir, the Soundsational Singers or the girls choir, the Treble Clefs; and Morton talks about work the students do or the great cooperation he gets from parents, not about the time and the work he puts in to directing them...

By Jason E. Silvers Fort Scott Tribune Two area Movie Gallery stores plan to close their doors next week, company officials said Thursday. Both stores, 1713 S. National Ave., Fort Scott, and 320 E. Austin St., Nevada, Mo., are two of 400 stores nationwide that the video rental company announced earlier this month would be closing as part of the company's reorganization plan in an attempt to exit bankruptcy...

The Carthage Tigers came to town Thursday night and ruined Senior Night for the Nevada boys and girls basketball teams; squeaking by the Nevada boys 39-36 with a three-point shot at the buzzer and easily beating the Nevada Lady Tigers 47-34 for their final Southwest Conference match-ups...

Nevada walked away from the first round of state wrestling with half of their wrestlers still fighting for a spot in the championship. Cole Bond pinned Kansas City Center's Greg Carroll in 3-minutes-59-seconds, Spenser Daniels posted a 16-0 technical-fall win over Clayton Dahlberg, of Chillicothe, Ryan Herda won with a major decision, 14-0, over Benton's Eli Relford and Jerrod Alexander pinned Sullivan's Joe Hulsey in 2:56. ...

I've heard so many extraordinary stories since the ice storm arrived Monday night. I can't top them. Like so many of you, my wife and I listened in the darkness as ice-covered limbs crashed into our yard, down on our roof and onto a metal garden shed...

By Don Kaul - Minutemanmedia.org After thinking it over, I've come to the conclusion that there's no way we can get out of Iraq. It would be nice and all but the more I look at the plans put forward by the Democratic presidential candidates the less I see. They're hardly more realistic than the rosy scenarios sold to us by the Republicans who got us into this mess...

Excerpts from editorials in newspapers across Missouri. Jan. 31 The Southeast Missourian, on raising salaries of teachers: Rod Jetton, speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, has proposed a plan to increase the minimum salary for teachers to $31,000 a year...