- Traffic heavy in Nevada despite heavy snowfall (Local News ~ 01/30/10)
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Local churches collect items to send to Haiti
(Local News ~ 01/30/10)
Nevada, Mo. -- A group that sends missions to Haiti and is supported by several local churches is collecting items for the relief efforts in Haiti. Jamie Sisseck said the group is supported by churches in Hume, Richards and Fort Scott, among others...
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Kansas Unclaimed Property Division celebrates 30 years of service
(Local News ~ 01/30/10)
The Kansas State Treasurer's Office is pleased to be celebrating their 30 years of service to Kansas residents. The Unclaimed Property department was founded under the Unclaimed Property Act of 1979. Under then State Treasurer Joan Finney the Unclaimed Property division began collecting and returning Kansans unclaimed property and this division has continued under six subsequent State Treasurers' administrations...
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'The most wonderful sight was the Statue of Liberty': John Nichols recalls service during World War II
(Local News ~ 01/30/10)
John Nichols was a senior in high school in 1942. He lived on a small farm close to Ft. Knox and started work at a concrete lab which poured all the concrete for Ft. Knox. He and a neighbor boy hitchhiked to town to see the Wizard of Oz. After the movie, they were waiting for a ride at the local filling station and were told about Pearl Harbor being attacked and our country was at war. He didn't have to go into the service because he was already in a defense job, but he resigned and volunteered...
- Snow blankets Fort Scott, Nevada areas (Local News ~ 01/30/10)
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Kim Smith - Ray Cross
(Engagement ~ 01/30/10)
Kim Smith and Ray Cross announce their engagement and upcoming marriage. Smith is the daughter of Bill and Carol Smith, Deerfield, Mo., and Cross is the son of the late Quincy and Margaret Cross. The couple plan to be married in a 2 o'clock ceremony at Church of God (Holiness) El Dorado Springs, Mo., on Feb. 27, 2010...
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Phyllis Marie Scougal
(Obituary ~ 01/30/10)
Phyllis Marie Scougal, 80, Nevada, formerly of Bronaugh, passed on to a greater life on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, at her home in Nevada. She was born on Oct. 9, 1929, in Siam, Iowa, to Oran H. and Ora Oxley Stanley. She married Paul R. Scougal on June 6, 1948, in Des Moines, Iowa, and he survives of the home...
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Catherine Isabelle Higley Broughton
(Obituary ~ 01/30/10)
Catherine Isabelle Higley Broughton passed away on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, at Overland Park Place Nursing Center, Overland Park, Kan. She would have been 94 on Jan. 29. Services will be held at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada, on Monday, Feb. 1, at 10 a.m. Visitation will be at the funeral home on Sunday, Jan. 31, from 7 to 8 p.m., Interment will be at Newton Burial Park, in Nevada. Friends may call at the funeral home from now and until the time of service...
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Josephine Caroline Clark
(Obituary ~ 01/30/10)
Josephine Caroline Clark, born March 21, 1921, in Hume, Mo., passed away Jan. 28, 2010, at the Ozark Community Hospital, Springfield, Mo. She passed peacefully from this Earth to meet her Heavenly Father. Josephine was born to Ralph Russell Ewan and Edith Elizabeth Coon-Ewan. ...
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Marvin F. Rice
(Obituary ~ 01/30/10)
Marvin F. Rice, 83, of Butler, Mo., passed away Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, at the Kansas City Hospice House of kidney failure. Marvin is now, happily, in the arms of the Lord and his beloved wife, Dulcie. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, February, 2, at the Atkinson Chapel in Adrian, with visitation from 10-11 a.m., at the chapel. ...
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Short roster factors in Fort Scott wrestling split
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/10)
ALTAMONT, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's wrestling team might have been in position to sweep a Southeast Kansas League wrestling triangular Thursday night. The Tigers defeated Labette County and won five out of the eight matches that were held against Independence...
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Fort Scott Homecoming postponed
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/10)
Naturally, every single game that was to be held on the Kansas side of the state line involving area teams was postponed Friday afternoon. The storm passing through even put off two events that were to be held Saturday. Homecoming at Fort Scott High School, with Pittsburg as the opponent for the basketball doubleheader, has been rescheduled for Thursday, Jan. ...
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Eighth grade basketball splits Joplin East
(Community Sports ~ 01/30/10)
JOPLIN, Mo. -- The Nevada Middle School eighth grade boys basketball A and B teams brought home mixed results as they traveled to Joplin East Middle School Thursday night. In the B game, the Tigers fell in a tough contest by a final score of 37-19. The A game was a much different story as Nevada cruised to a 48-18 victory...
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Nevada Classic postponed
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/10)
NEVADA, Mo. -- Due to inclement weather, officials at Nevada High School were forced to postpone Friday's action in the 11th annual Nevada Tiger and Lady Tiger Classic tournament. Originally scheduled for Friday were semifinal round games on the girls' side of the bracket. ...
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Nevada moves to Class 3
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/10)
Herald-Tribune The Missouri State High School Activities Association released the new class and district assignments for the 2010 football season Friday morning. Thanks to the addition of football at a number of smaller high schools around the state, MSHSAA has re-evaluated class sizes and made a number of changes to class and district assignments around the state. ...
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