Stories from Thursday, April 13, 2006

A work session Tuesday night was filled with questions, requests and newly disclosed information as council members quizzed department heads about the status of the city in the wake of city manager Craig Hubler's resignation and the election of three new members to the council...

A work session Tuesday night conducted by the Nevada City Council focused on many aspects of city operations, among them the Public Works Department. Joe Charles, public works director, told the council that his department is responsible for the streets, and water and sewer mains...

On Tuesday, Nevada Mayor Jim Rayburn and the Vernon County Commission issued a joint proclamation marking Crime Victims' Rights Week, April 23 -29. Members of the Nevada Police Department, the Vernon County Sheriff's Office, other law enforcement and victims' rights advocates met to observe the dual signing. In observance, a crime victims' march will take place at 6 p.m., April 25, at the Vernon County courthouse...

The trustees of the Finis M. Moss Charitable Trust have placed a life-sized statue of Finis M. Moss, the Trust's founder, in front of the Nevada Public Library, 218 W. Walnut, Nevada. "We wanted to commemorate the life of the man whose gift to the community has benefited all of us," said Donald B. ...

Do you ever make mistakes? I'll have to admit that I have once or twice. In fact, it might even have been more than that number. But what bothers me most is when I make a mistake in print right in front of both of my readers. One of them told me about a mistake I made several weeks ago. I was talking about our pride in Gordon Parks and his movie that was filmed in Fort Scott...

When we reach for a package of rib eye steaks and a gallon of milk in the grocery store, few of us think twice about how a steer became the steak in our hands or how a milk cow produced the goods in our milk cartons. Perhaps we should, because the way the vast majority of beef and dairy cattle are raised in the United States poses big problems for the environment, human health, and animal health. ...

A new tornado season HUTCHISON, Kan. -- Two women were severely injured in a cyclone which passed over Stafford at 5:30 p.m., yesterday. The Quaker church was demolished and six dwellings were blown down in addition to a number of barns and other outbuildings, both in town and to the northwest in the country...

Good pitching and solid defense will take you a long way in baseball. It doesn't matter if it's the high school level or the Major Leagues. It's how the Oakland A's have been able to compete the past five years or so. It's why the Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series in 2001. It's how the White Sox won last season. It's how the Kansas City Royals are going to have to do things if they want to have any chance of getting back to respectability...

The Nevada Tiger junior varsity track team competed in Joplin Tuesday, coming home with four winning performances. Megan Smith won both hurdles events on the girls' side, while Katie Hughes and Jacob Cherry also took top honors. Smith won the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 18.50 seconds. She also took the 300 hurdles with a 53.60 time...