Stories from Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Mary Jane Mathews, a resident for 94 years of St. Louis, Mo., and, for the past three years and seven months, a resident of Culpepper Place, Nevada, passed in her sleep Friday morning, Oct. 16, 2009. She was born on Oct. 30, 1911. Miss Mathews was employed for 53 years as a secretary and office clerk for North American Electric Lamp Company, St. ...

Sept. 26 Georgiana K. Cooksey, Abilene, Texas, seat belt law. D'juana, Desilva, New Haven, Conn., seat belt law. D'eldria L. Garrett, Battlefield, Mo., no proof of insurance, and failure to transfer plates. Keith D. Garrett-Bybee, Nevada, no proof of insurance...

Amanda Lindsey and Jeremiah Rutledge, of Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Kylie Ann Elisabeth Lindsey-Rutledge. Kylie was born at 5:27, on Oct. 5, 2009, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and measured 19 inches...

Oct. 16 There were reports of a miscellaneous call in the Nevada area, a stranded motorist in the Nevada area, a suspicious vehicle in the Nevada area, a dog at large in the Bronaugh area, a disturbance in the Sheldon area, a request to speak to an officer in the Nevada area, a follow up in the Nevada area, harassment in the Nevada area, and suspicious activity in the Vernon County area...

Oct. 6 An accident occurred at 6:57 a.m., at Daylight Donut's parking lot, involving an SUV driven by Johnny W. Preston, of Nevada, and a pickup driven by Noel L. Davis, of Nevada. No injuries were reported. An accident occurred at 6:42 p.m., on Austin and Alma, involving a pickup driven by Gregory A. Kepler, of Nevada, and a pickup driven by Steven W. Jacobs Jr., of Nevada. No injuries were reported...

The Nevada City Council will have several new items on their agenda for their meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the council chambers, 120 S. Ash Street, including consideration of an ordinance to extend the completion date for the city's new sewer treatment plant until May 7, 2010 and to replace one of the drives on the existing plant clarifiers that has quit working and in a related matter to consider an ordinance to approve amendment No. ...

Auditor B. G. Wolfe gave the Nevada R-5 School District a clean bill of health on the annual audit at the Board of Education's monthly meeting Wednesday evening. Wolfe told the board that auditors looked at several factors including the system of internal controls and also compliance with federal, state and local laws when compiling information...

A second First Place for General Excellence, Class 1 Dailies award has joined the one earned by the Nevada Daily Mail in 2003. "It's quite an honor, to have your peers look to this publication as one of the leaders in the state. But it's even more an honor to work with a group of men and women who make winning this kind of award possible. ...

Six blocks, seven kills and one dig. Allen County Community College's Andrea Miller was all over the court in the Red Devils' sweep of the Cottey College Comets Monday night inside the Hinkhouse Gymnasium. Miller took it upon herself to become the Red Devils' main force at the net after a second-set ankle injury took out sophomore Autumn Lamle in the second set and did so with authority. ...