Stories from Friday, August 20, 2010

Robert "Bob" E. Horning, 86, Nevada, passed away Aug. 18, 2010, at Christian Health Care in Nevada. He was born April 10, 1924, in Clarinda, Iowa, to Jesse Stephen Horning and Opal Sylvia Edwards Horning. He married and had two children, Chris and Beth Ann, and later, he married Helen Rivers Schmitz in 1961. She brought four children, Linda, Charlene, Steve, and Stuart, from a previous marriage. Helen survives of the home...

Landon Leroy "Lanny" Phelps, 60, Walker, Mo., passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, at his sister's home in El Dorado Springs, Mo., following an illness of several months. He was born on July 10, 1950, in Nevada, to William Earl Phelps and Marguerite Milligan Phelps...

Jean Norma Nichol, 73, Fort Scott, died early Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, at Fort Scott Manor Nursing Home. Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m., Monday, Aug. 23, in the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the U.S. National Cemetery, Fort Scott. ...

August 7 There were reports of trespassing in the Sheldon area. Mike Beisley was arrested for failure to appear. Bond amount is $1,000. Daniel Nesbitt was arrested for failure to appear. Bond amount is $700. Thomas Nagy was arrested for failure to appear. Bond amount is $508...

Cottey College will kick off fall events and welcome students to a new year with the opening of school picnic and concert on Saturday, Aug. 28, at 6 p.m. at BIL Hill, Nevada. Serving for the picnic begins at 6, and the concert featuring David Campbell will begin immediately afterward...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- To reflect changes in fuel and purchased power costs, the Missouri Public Service Commission has approved a request filed by Kansas City Power and Light Greater Missouri Operations Company to adjust the fuel adjustment charge on electric customer bills. ...

Sergeant Chad Moppin looks around the room, seven recruits from around the area look back. Moppin is putting a group of recruits through the delayed entry program and he's proud that it is such a diverse group. "We have seven kids from seven different communities and I just thought that was something that's worth noticing," Moppin said...

Students all over the county are heading back to school this week. In the Nevada R-5 School District, classes resumed on Thursday, Aug. 19. At right, Truman Elementary School principal Diann Marti welcomes third grader Madalyn Koenig to the first day of the 2010 school year. At least at Truman, "it was a very smooth start today," said Marti...

Dear Editor, Looks like the state has pushed through with it's plan to close the campus at Nevada Habilitation Center. Congratulations to many of you on your "great victory." The sad thing is because of the advocacy by government agencies and budget cuts, we are going to have folks pushed out of Nevada Habilitation Center into the community where services do not exist to aid with the diverse behavioral, medical, and development disabilities our loved were born with...

Thursday, was the first day of school for most students in this area. I am actually writing this article on the preceding Monday. After taking a long look at the Nevada R-5 School District Web site, I feel a little like Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz." We are certainly not in Kansas anymore! About the only thing students of today have in common with those of long ago, is "new shoes."...

A crowd filled the bleachers to capacity at the Northeast Vernon County School Board meeting in the Walker gymnasium in the sweltering heat Thursday. The school board set at a table up in front of the bleachers to hear the comments from the crowd concerning a petition circulated by a group wishing to close the NEVC district and request the Nevada school district annex it...