Stories from Friday, August 27, 2010

T.J. and Misti Raney of Nevada, and big brothers Tretin and Ryan, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Daeten Matthew Raney. Daeten was born 3:59 a.m., Aug. 18, 2010, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce, and measured 22 inches...

Mary Sue Houdeshell, 76, Nevada, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, at St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Mo., following a brief illness. She was born on Aug. 28, 1933, in Nickleton, Mo., to Ivan Doll and Ruth Emma Daugherty Doll. She married Robert E. Houdeshell on Nov. 7, 1949, in Vernon County, and he survives of the home...

August 18 There were reports of a domestic dispute in the Sheldon area and a burglary in the Hume area. Victor Stone was arrested for D.W.I-chronic offender and operating a motor vehicle on the highway without a valid license. Bond amount is $100,000...

New laws were passed by Missouri legislators this year, affecting vehicle operation, gambling, and illegal drugs. Some of the laws contained an emergency clause, which went into effect upon the signing by Gov. Jay Nixon; others will go into effect Aug. 28...

Farmers in Vernon County who suffered losses from a series of storms that struck the area earlier this year could be eligible for a special loan program from the Farm Service Agency, according to a press release issued this week. Farm Service Agency disaster loans are now available in 95 counties in Missouri, including Vernon, Barton and Bates counties...

Paving of the 2010 street sales tax projects is expected to start on Monday and that makes it time for anyone wanting a street to be considered for next year's street projects to let a member of the street and infrastructure board know about it. Joe Charles, public works director, told the infrastructure board Thursday evening that the weather has delayed other construction projects that Blevins Asphalt was working on and they should be here next week to start on our streets...

Sharp-eyed motorist Will Bishop spotted an unusual sight at the MegaWest Energy oil field just east of the Kansas state line at approximately 11 a.m., Thursday, oil gushing into the air. Jim Long, area superintendent for MegaWest, said that the oil "Came up a little hot," and surprised them. Long said the crew repaired the problem and said he could only guess at the amount of oil that leaked but estimated it at "around 10 barrels."...

Eustrus Barnes of rural Hume was drafted into the U.S. Army in September of 1942. He said basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif., was "quite an experience, but so was getting there on the troop train." It wasn't the manual labor that bothered him, as he had been farming on his own since he was 13; it was that he had never ridden on a train before or taken orders since he was self-employed. He made it through with flying colors, however...

Nevada Daily Mail A simple pair of children's shoes may not look powerful, but they can make a big difference in the lives of orphans around the world. Members of the Nevada Rotary Club are teaming up with Buckner International to ask Nevada residents to collect shoes for children in need. ...

"We should be the favorites going into districts." Nevada Lady Tigers head golf coach Brian Leonard is entering the 2010 season with a heavy weight on his mind, but at the same time, with higher hopes than ever before to bring home a strong finish and possibly a district championship...

The Nevada High School girls' tennis team didn't get much of a chance to ease their way into the new season as they were forced to go right to work with a tough test against the Joplin Lady Eagles in the season opener Thursday night. The Lady Eagles came into the night in a similar situation as they already had one very tough match under their belts. ...

In the summer of 2009, the U.S. House passed -- by a slim margin -- a cap-and-trade bill that if enacted into law, would cost American families thousands of dollars each year and increase the price of energy by as much as 90 percent according to research by the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. ...

Friday, Sept. 10, the 1975 Nevada Tiger football team, will be inducted into the Nevada High School Wall of Fame. I have great memories of those days. I referred to this team in the title of this article, as "The next generation." Most of those fine young men had been the boys on the sidelines cheering on my team from just nine years earlier. They were the kids we had seen kicking and passing a football along the sidelines. Now, they had grown up and become great champions in their own time...