Stories from Friday, July 7, 2006

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The county commission has begun its regular review of its finances. Daniel, Schell, Wolfe and Associates is conducting an audit of Vernon County's books. The audit will relate to the county's finances over the past two years and is a normal audit of the county. Presiding Commissioner David Darnold estimated the amounts the county spent on the general revenue and Road and Bridge budgets. He said there aren't a lot of ways the county can spend the funds...

Nevada Daily Mail The Missouri Department of Transportation work continues on the major arteries passing through Nevada, but the department says that two of the biggest projects affecting the area should be completed next month. Replacement of the bridge over the Marmaton River on U.S. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council postponed a decision until the Aug. 15 council meeting, on consideration of a special ordinance to approve a partnership with the Nevada R-5 School District to fund a school resource officer. The school board must approve the agreement and will not meet until July 12...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail It's a Nevada landmark --one that served the public for more than 75 years, from its construction in 1917 until the Public Library moved to new quarters in 1994. The building construction was paid for with the help a grant from the Carnegie Foundation. It almost didn't get funded -- the foundation was about to discontinue its library project when Nevada sought funding...

Andrew and Katherine Meredith, Nevada, Mo., announce the birth of their daughter Aaliyah Paige Gean Meredith, on July 4, 2006, at 3:40 p.m., at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and measured 20 inches. Paternal grandparents are Gilda Simpson, of Kansas City, Mo., and the late Andrew Lee King Simpson, Topeka, Kan...

Inez Hertha Rutherford, 88, formerly of Nevada, Mo., died Thursday, July 6, 2006, in Missouri Valley, Iowa, after a long bout with cancer. Inez was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Oct. 4, 1917, to Ollie Milton Daugherty and Minnie Agnes Schwartz Daugherty. ...

100 years ago Drive-through wedding About 7:30 last evening, a couple of young people drove up to the Centenary M.E. church parsonage and called the Rev. W.G. Beasly, the pastor. They did not waste any time in making their business known, for the young man candidly stated their mission was marriage...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail EL DORADO, Kan. -- The Nevada Griffons were hoping for a different outcome when they started the second half of the Jayhawk League season Thursday in El Dorado (Kan.). They had struggled through the first month of the season, going 5-14 in league play and only consistently beating one opponent -- the Joplin Slashers...