Stories from Saturday, November 6, 2010

James W. Garrison, 69, of Joplin, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., following a brief illness. James was born on Aug. 26, 1941, to Paul and Mona Garrison of Monett, Mo. James spent his youth in Ulysses, Kan., graduating from Ulysses High School in 1959. ...

William P. Stevens Jr., 86, loving husband, father, grandfather and friend to many, left this life peacefully and went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. William was born Feb. 9, 1924, in St. Louis, Mo. Before moving to Arlington in 2002, he had lived in Prescott, Kan., Olathe, Kan., and Rogers, Ark. ...

Nola J. Hartzfeld, 69, Nevada, died on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced by Ferry Funeral Home. View obituary and send condolences on line at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

Fort Scott will be among 16 cities in four regions participating in the Take Charge Challenge, an energy efficiency contest coordinated by the Climate and Energy Project and sponsored by the Kansas Energy Office in partnership with communities and utilities across the state...

The Nevada City Council will be holding a special meeting at 5:30 p.m., Monday in the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center. The council will be considering a special ordinance approving a $10,000 option for the purchase of four tracts of property in the 300 block of West Cherry from Norma Jean Loving. ...

The access road to Radio Springs Park will be closed to the public starting Monday, Nov. 8. Parks and Recreation Department will be putting Christmas lights up for the lights at the lake. The park will reopen on Nov. 24, after the lighting ceremony and will remain open until Dec. 31, from 5-10 p.m...

After six months, the main gate of Fort Scott National Cemetery will be re-opened Monday, Cemetery Technician Richard Wheeler said. The main gate closed the week before Memorial Day as part of an overall renovation of the 150-year-old cemetery. About 50 percent of the original limestone rock was cleaned and re-used for the rebuilding project. New stone was obtained from around Redfield, Kan. Decatur Construction of Binford, Texas, did the work...

Southwest Missouri -- The Office of the State Fire Marshal and the National Weather Service are urging extra caution with open burning in Missouri due to low moisture conditions, low humidity and high winds that increase the danger of wildland fires...

Nevada, Mo. -- "It's free money. That is what is being offered by General Mills to schools across the country," said Karen Marquardt, PTO member. The Bryan and Benton Elementary PTOs are asking area citizens to collect box tops for their schools, both of which are taking part in the Box Tops for Education program. ...

Nevada, Mo. -- Typical of the working hours kept by most farmers and ranchers and their children, the parking lot on the west side of the Nevada Regional Technical Center began filling up with students, tractors, livestock and agricultural exhibits well before daylight on Friday morning Nov. 5...

The multitudinous human aspects of one of the worst maritime tragedies in history, the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, will be portrayed in the Nevada High School Drama Department's production of "Titanic: Tragedy and Trial" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday...

Heather Reneé Compton and James John Stromberg were married Aug. 7, 2010, at the East Chain Lutheran Church, East Chain, Minn. Pastor Robert Roettger performed the ceremony and Kendra Sones provided music. The wedding colors of butter crème and mocha were reflected in the pew decorations and centerpieces of yellow and white lilies, curly willow and natural grasses...