Stories from Friday, March 12, 2010

American Civil War scholars and hobbyists will have their first-ever, online access to thousands more pages of historical records in 2010. A new, $94,269 grant will fund phase 2 of "Community & Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks." Since 2009, the project has made available online some 3,878 pages of historical records for researchers, teachers and the public. ...

After spending three days in Nevada looking carefully at the Nevada R-5 School District, visiting schools, interviewing the school administration, teachers, staff, students, parents and other stakeholders, the entire Nevada school district has been recommended to receive a five-year district-wide accreditation from the North Central Association on Accreditation and School Improvement, James Jilck, chairman of the AdvancED accreditation team, told the R-5 board and staff members during a special school board meeting Wednesday afternoon.. ...

Patrons in the Northeast Vernon County School District are once again being asked to finance a new school building to house the district's students. Superintendent Charles Naas said the need is real and won't go away. "The buildings are both more than 80 years old," Naas said. ...

When Paul Thorade was a boy growing up in Canyon City, Colo., he never dreamed that he would be going all over the world. In fact, he went to college to be a firefighter -- and ran out of money before he finished. That was why he joined the Navy. He became an operations specialist for secret clearance missions. ...