Stories from Thursday, October 25, 2007

The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, cause decisions to make in the fall. How many of these pots and hanging baskets that we so eagerly established in May are worth bringing inside now that cooler weather has come? Some plants have already made that decision. They decided to have a nice dignified death where they were planted. Others look too straggly to be worth bothering with...

Last week, the lone surviving member of Frank Sinatra’s infamous “Rat Pack” left his last earthly stage performance to rejoin his comrades, wherever they may be. Joey Bishop died at the age of 89, quietly at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. His death signaled the end of an era and a time that will never be again or forgotten. What a time it was! Joey’s death also meant the absolute end of the Rat Pack as we all knew them...

Betty Lou Howard, 81, Nevada, died Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, following a lengthy illness. She was born Oct. 27, 1925, in Nanty Glo, Pa., to William Donaldson and Olive O’Laughlin Donaldson. She was married Dec. 15, 1956, in Newport Beach, Calif., to Lionel Howard and he survives of the home...

Amber, Bo, Leah, Madyson, Avery, Shon, Matt, and Mason Bogart are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Aiden Joseph Andrew Bogart. Aiden was born at 2:45 a.m., on Oct. 16, 2007, at Freeman Health System, Joplin, Mo. He weighed 9 pounds, 1 ounce, and measured 22 inches...

HARRISONVILLE -- Nevada used a tremendous all-around team effort and played its best in crunch time Wednesday night to earn its first volleyball district championship in 10 years. Third-seeded Nevada fought through an eye-popping 18 ties and scored the final five points to defeat top-seeded Holden 26-24 in Game 1. Then, Nevada posted a 25-18 comeback win in Game 2 to earn the Class 3, District 12 title in a match at Harrisonville High School...

Dr. Mark Comensky has been hosting exchange students since the early 1990s. Now he says the Nevada R-5 School district is making that more difficult for him. Comensky currently has two students he is hosting and they are enrolled in the Sheldon schools because of the changes in district policy...

The room full of eighth graders at Nevada Middle school grew steadily more silent and the students sat motionless in their seats as trauma nurse Pam Holt related a story of a girl who lost her life in a traffic crash, and the friend who’d witnessed the terribile event...

At about 7:05 a.m., Wednesday, a threatening phone call was received by the Nevada High School. According to "School Reach," a contact system for parents, the nature of the call caused all buildings in the district to be alerted. It is speculated that the other schools in the district were notified due to the non-specific nature of the threat...

Becoming a safe and ethical hunter does not come easily. Chances are someone took the time to introduce you to the great outdoor hunting experience. So now you have the opportunity to give back some of those same experiences and take a youth hunting...