Stories from Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Tuesday, the last day state law allowed such proposals to be certified, Vernon County Commissioners placed a proposed half-cent sales tax on the ballot for the August 5 election. The proposed tax would finance a new public safety center and at least partially fund enhanced 911 service. ...

Vernon County's prosecutor has been a full-time position since voters have approved the change from part-time status last year. Lynn Ewing III, prosecutor at the time of the election, is the first to serve full-time in that office. For Vernon County, it's meant an increase in issues handled by the office. ...

There is a thief on the loose in Nevada. Between 11 p.m. May 26 and 7 o'clock the next morning, someone stole the MIA/POW bunting from the Austin Boulevard overpass. Judy Knowles, the local "flag lady" and the power behind the Memorial Day flag movement, said "I don't care who stole it. ...

Several weeks ago, I was in the University Outreach and Extension Center when Wayne Prewitt told me that there is going to be a sheep show in Nevada. Those weeks have passed, and the Heart of America Sheep Show and Fiber Festival will be conducted this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Vernon County fairgrounds. ...

100 Years Ago -- May 28, 1903 Dick Haddock's brown mare, used as a delivery horse, took another notion today to run away and did so ending in a result that Haddock's wagon was damaged. Some excitement was caused and a wheel was torn off Henry Pohl's buggy. ...

When my friend Mel called from Phoenix to say he'd be in Missouri over Memorial Day weekend, I faced a kind of dilemma for only the second time in my 18 years of Southeast Missouri living. Mel has lived in major cities his entire life. New York. Miami. ...