Stories from Friday, April 9, 2010

Thornton E. Spencer, 91, of Nevada, passed away on March 30, 2010, at the home of his daughter. Thornton was born Sept. 11, 1918, in Clinton, Ill., to Carl and Minnie M. (Florey) Spencer. He grew up in Vernon County, Mo., and graduated from Walker High School in 1937. Thornton spent his life as a farmer in the Walker area before moving to Nevada...

Mary Edna Reese, 91, of Schell City, died Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 10, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, in Nevada. Visitation will be at 7-8 p.m., today, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home, in Schell City. Cremation will follow service...

Jacob and Cindi Williams, of Schell City, and siblings Levi and Sadie are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Lucy Nichole Williams. Lucy was born at 8:36 a.m., on March 29, 2010, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and measured 21 inches...

Shackled and wearing street clothes, Garrett Mason, of Nevada was led into a Vernon County courtroom by two Vernon County Sheriff's Office deputies on Wednesday, April 8, to hear Judge David C. Dally's ruling on a change of venue motion filed by Mason's attorney, Joseph Zuzul...

Spencer Scotten, a member of the Nevada FFA chapter, placed first in the slaughter cattle grading portion of the Missouri Department of Agriculture's Youth Livestock Grading and Judging Contest in Columbia, March 13. A four-student Nevada FFA team of Ty Peckman, Kerbee Tyler, Hailee Miller and Mercedes Barker also placed fifth in traditional livestock judging events at the competition...

Toastmasters is an international organization that promotes communications and leadership by building confidence through experience in front of audiences. Many people, in all walks of life, have to speak to groups of people for many reasons. Toastmasters gather together to help each other acquire the skills they can use in their professional careers or for special events such as toasting the bride and groom at a wedding...

The Nevada Police Department announced the arrest of a Nevada man for possession with intent to sell marijuana and maintaining a public nuisance/drug house. Roy Amos, 55, was arrested after Sergeant John Millard conducted a 'knock and talk' at the Amos' residence April 7 and smelled the odor of marijuana inside the residence...

The stage is set with laundry on the line, a cow in the barn and a spider web hanging in the rafters. Cousin P-U welcomes the audience to the final dress rehearsal of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web. All of us in the audience are old enough to have grandchildren, so maybe we appreciate even more the hard work that these young people have put into preparing their lines and their costumes and developing their characters to share with us. ...