Stories from Friday, June 6, 2008

James Coleman (J.C.) Brackenridge, 77, of rural El Dorado Springs, the son of Maude Frances (Whitley) Brackenridge and Everett Nally Brackenridge, was born July 26, 1930, at his family home. He passed away at his home Sunday, May 31, 2008. J.C. attended the Stoney Point School near Taberville, Mo. After graduation he worked on the family farm. He was a veteran of the Marine Corps during the Korean Conflict and served as a Corporal in the Third Tank Battalion Division as a tank instructor...

Kenton W. "Bud" Pettibon, 78, of Nevada, formerly of the Deerfield area, passed away on June 5, 2008, at Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada, following an illness of several months. He was born on March 13,1930, the son of Herbert and Lela Peters Pettibon. On May 4, 1952, he married Helen Ripley in Fort Scott, who survives of the home...

June 4 An accident occurred at 1:21 p.m., at Centennial and Hickory, involving a pickup driven by Jeffrey L. Bond, of Nevada, and a car driven by Stephan L. Sherwood, of Nevada. Sherwood and Ruth M. Hundley, of Nevada, a passenger in the Sherwood vehicle, were listed with evident, not disabling, injuries...

June 4 There were reports of a tree down in the Milo area, debris in the road in the Walker area, a grass fire in the Milo area, a tree down in the Nevada area, a traffic stop in the Nevada area, a tree down in the Sheldon area, a check well being in the Bellamy area, an alarm, a power line fire in the Nevada area, a 911 hang up in the Nevada area, an ambulance request in the Sheldon area, an abandoned vehicle in the Arthur area, a careless and imprudent driver in the Nevada area, a structure fire in the Metz area, a fire in the Nevada area, a tree down in the Bronaugh area, and a tree down in the Milo area.. ...

Dear editor: People who oppose group homes and their residents in their neighborhoods and communities represent the same type of narrow-minded bigots who oppose anyone who is different from them. These are the same kind of individuals who oppose new immigrants coming to American shores, who oppose people who do not go to the same church that they do and believe only they are going to heaven, and who have stood in the way of people from various ethnic and racial backgrounds from making progress in society.. ...

Associates of J.E. Dunn Construction Company and Goldberg, Sullivan & McCrerey presented contractor bid recommendations for the new county jail and sheriff's department project to the Vernon County Commission Tuesday morning. The commission unanimously approved a motion to allow J.E. Dunn to issue letters of award to the 22 recommended contractors...

The Adamses had a mess to cleanup on Wednesday, when half of a giant tree crashed across a neighbor's back yard, extending nearly the length of the neighbor's lot. But on Thursday, Mother Nature let them know she wasn't finished yet. The other half of the tree didn't stand up to Thursday's high winds and crashed in the opposite direction -- squarely across the soft-side pool erected just last weekend...

I wonder if you saw the small story of 5-year-old Molly, the chocolate Lab retriever whose serious need for medical attention recently brought a Missouri community together in a common cause. Molly is carefully and expensively trained in "cadaver retrieval," and if that doesn't sound like the kind of pup you'd like to get down on your knees and throw your arms around, her owners Allen and Alicia Brown and their little daughter Allison would disagree, vociferously...