Stories from Thursday, April 8, 2010

Lee and Jessie Grant, of Pea Ridge, Ark., and big brother Tanner, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Tatum Marie Grant. Tatum was born at 2:41 a.m., on March 15, 2010, at Mercy Medical Center, in Rogers, Ark. She weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces, and measured 21 1/2 inches...

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate Miss Morgan Haddix for a letter of hers printed in the April 3 issue of this paper. As a sophomore of NEVC high school, she wrote a most intelligent letter defending her school and seeking the support for Proposition S...

Dear Editor, Kudos to the state's Department of Mental Health, for its decision to serve people currently living at Nevada Habilitation Center in the community. It's a promising first step, toward a hopeful future of phasing out an inordinately expensive, outdated model of supporting people with developmental disabilities...

I read in the Missouri Conservationist Special Events Calendar that today is the day that house wrens will begin to arrive in Missouri. That brought back many memories. In our rented home in Washington, D.C., we had a wonderful back porch that was high enough to need a long flight of steps (around 15 I would guess) to reach the ground in the backyard. ...

The Tri-County Genealogical Society and the Vernon County Historical Society are excited to announce that the much-anticipated new Vernon County, Missouri Cemetery Directory 2010 soon will be available. Fifty copies of the directory are expected by April 14. To obtain a copy of the directory, interested parties must pre-order. The new directory is priced to enable researchers to obtain a copy for their personal libraries at only $30 for the 2-vol. set (plus $8 if by mail order)...

The Nevada R-5 School District is making changes to cope with the loss of state funding which is being reduced in order to balance the state budget. "The state is experiencing some pretty significant shortfalls on the state budget and that's going to be reflected in the school's state funding," said R-5 superintendent Dr. David Stephens...

A long, wet winter, an already wet spring and difficulties finding a location have delayed things, but finally, Earl Ackley of Care Connection has managed to get everything in place and broken a plot of ground to be used for a Victory Garden. Victory gardens were common across the country during World War I and World War II and were utilized as a means for citizens supplement the nation's food supply and to help with the war effort. ...

Results are in for area school districts with residents in more than one county. Some school district elections require combining the results from different counties as some districts cross county lines. El Dorado Springs R-2, Rich Hill R-4, and Hume R-8 districts all fall into that category...