Stories from Thursday, March 23, 2006

Cottey College recently received a grant from the Missouri Humanities Council, in order to fund and seek out female Chautauqua candidates. Kay Kuhlmann, the project director at Cottey College, says that the institute currently needs to address the disparity between rosters. ...

When dozens of area residents showed up at the city council chambers for a special city council meeting Wednesday night to bring their grievances about the city government to the attention of the city council and an area television station, they found the council chambers locked and no council members or city staff present; the meeting had been canceled about 3 p.m. Wednesday because of the lack of a quorum...

U.S. Senator Jim Talent, R-Mo., filed this week for re-election at the Missouri Secretary of State's office. "It's an honor for me to represent Missouri in the United States Senate. I'm proud of what we've accomplished by changing Washington and making it work for Missouri jobs, renewable fuels for our farmers, anti-meth legislation for our law enforcement, Medicare prescription coverage for our seniors and national and homeland security for our families. ...

A Nevada man has been named as the Economic Development Director for the State Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc. Cecil Pritchett, currently president of the Osage Valley RC&D, was named by Kathryn Braden, president of the state association, to the position March 2 at the state council's annual meeting in Jefferson City...

Each year in the very early spring we begin to wonder if our goose and gander will return to nest in our front yard pond again. During the winter we see various small and large groups of geese spending a day or a few hours on our pond or flying over it to the bigger pond in the next field. ...

Doubtless it was inevitable that the project of naming Vernon County's rural roads would arouse some misunderstanding and dissatisfaction. More than one country dweller awoke to find himself living on a road with a far-fetched or incomprehensible name, or even one with troubling connotations...

The city fire department was called out at 2:15 this morning by a fire at the work train near the foundry in the northeast part of the city. Some 40 or more laborers are working for the railway company and they are temporarily living in a string of box cars. The kitchen and dining car caught fir in some unknown manner and both were destroyed. The fire boys responded promptly and by good work saved the six cars attached to the two burning cars...

Losing only two players from last season should set the Nevada Tigers up in pretty good shape coming into the 2005 tennis campaign. They have five returning letter winners, including three seniors, from a team that went 3-2 in conference play a year ago...

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Kansas City Royals have been selected as a host site for the Major League All-Star Game between the years of 2010 and 2014, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced Monday. The awarding of the All-Star Game is contingent upon the passing of Question 1 on the April 4 ballot in Jackson County...

Did you hear about this guy who added more than four years to his prison sentence just to go to the Super Bowl? I'm talking about Tank Carter, the brother of Pittsburgh Steelers backup safety Tyrone Carter, who was supposed to report to a Florida prison on Jan. 6 to begin serving a six-month sentence...