Stories from Sunday, March 11, 2007

Hobbyists learn how to stuff game birds in taxidermy class. By Steve Moyer Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- Jay Bowmaster holds a pheasant in his hands. Wires protrude from the body of the bird at the wings, tail and feet. He's preparing to show his students how to pose the bird so that it looks like a live bird in flight. The students are part of the Game Bird Taxidermy class at Nevada Regional Technical Center...

Stevens passes milestone in scouting. By Brett Dalton Herald-Tribune Fort Scott, Kan. -- When 12-year old Ryan Stevens joined the Cub Scouts in Fort Scott four years ago, he was one of eight area youth who joined at that time. Last month, he became the only one of those eight to advance to Boy Scout Troop 114...

By Jason E. Silvers Herald-Tribune UNIONTOWN -- The USD 235 Board of Education needs more input from the community before making a decision concerning the addition of two athletic programs to the district, school officials said. The board is scheduled to hear from the public on this matter during their regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. ...

Legislation, if passed by house as well, would be a big boost for proposed Fort Scott riverwalk project. By Robin Hixson Herald-Tribune Topeka, Kan. -- The Kansas Senate passed Senate Bill 321 on Wednesday which, if passed by the Kansas House, will facilitate creation of the Fort Scott/Bourbon County Riverfront Authority needed to guide and administer development of the Riverwalk project planned for construction along the Marmaton River in Fort Scott...

Florence Neoma Atchison, 85, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Friday, March 9, 2007, at Moore-Few Care Center following a lengthy illness. She was born on Oct. 12, 1921, in Sterling, Colo., to Frank Ansel Snyder and Letha Lea Emery Snyder. She married Lewis Atchison on April 12, 1943, in Tampa, Fla. He preceded her in death on May 6, 1988...

Vera B. (Davis) Faulconer, 85, passed away Saturday, March 10, 2007, at the Green Haven Nursing Home in Springfield, Mo. She was born Oct. 5, 1921, in Montevallo, Mo., to Ed Davis and Theo Opal Kinney Davis. She was married June 11, 1941, in Rich Hill, Mo., to William A. Faulconer and he died June 29, 1951...

John and Melinda Stevenson, Carthage, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their son, Auszrah Edward Stevenson. Auszrah was born at 3:14 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006, at Freeman Hospital, Joplin. He weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces, and measured 18.25 inches...

Geoff and Bethany Good Stewart, Bolivar, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their son, Grady Allen Stewart. Grady was born at 12:40 a.m., Feb. 24, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and measured 20 inches. Paternal grandparents are Susan Stewart, Bolivar, Mo., and Wendell and Darwina Stewart, Bolivar...

Hi neighbors. Have you started planting your garden yet? I seem to remember that certain things needed to be in the ground before St. Patrick's Day. A friend called me the other day and said she was feeling a need to start putting things in the ground. She added that she might plant potatoes, and she mentioned the St. Patrick's Day deadline...

Any War is a "Nasty Business" and the Civil War in Eastern Kansas and the entire state of Missouri was especially nasty brutal and barbaric because of the guerrilla war that was waged in the Sunflower and Show Me States. March of 1862 was a violent month, but it was no different than most months of the war when the persistent Union "hounds" pursued elusive Confederate "foxes." Guerrilla raids, skirmishes (small engagements) and battles occurred both day and night...

Herald-Tribune Nevada-area swimmers Jesse Claypool, Katie Kearbey and Shelby Thorns competed in the Missouri Valley Division 2 championships as part of the Jasper County Killer Whales recently, and all three set personal records. Claypool, 10, won two events, taking the 200-yard Individual Medley (3 minutes, 4.50 seconds) and the 50-yard breaststroke (43.61 seconds)...

Everybody knows about the NCAA tournament and the Cinderella stories and the Sweet Sixteens and the Final Fours, but there are a few things associated with the greatest sporting event of the year that maybe you didn't know. How many times will the world's most annoying sports broadcaster (yes I mean Dick Vitale) say "Baby"?...

"Hustle in, hustle out." Those words were enunciated countless thousands of times in the Nevada summers of the mid and late 1950s. Had they not distributed copies of the Nevada Daily Mail to patients at Nevada Regional Medical Center, no telling how long I might have been forced to wait in order to learn of the Feb. ...

There is something unmistakably comforting about the cycles of nature that make us feel whole, that make us feel connected again to the way things work, to the way they have always worked. If you allow yourself, you can feel the pulse of the earth spinning on its axis, the rush of survival as white bass, crappie and walleye pile into our rivers every spring by the thousands. ...