Stories from Friday, February 4, 2011

Dorotha Ethel Brown, 93, of rural Nevada, Mo., passed away on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, at Christian Health Care in Nevada. She was born July 6, 1917, in Texas County, Okla., to Ernest and Vena Sperry. When she was a year old, her parents moved to a farm in Beaver County, also in the Oklahoma Panhandle, where her five siblings Mary, Helen, George, Calvin and Betty were born...

Myron R. Damon, one of seven candidates in the upcoming election for the Nevada City Council appeared with a public defender for a pre-trial hearing before Vernon County Associate Circuit Judge Neal Quitno on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Damon appeared on two charges of misdemeanor assault in the third degree, according to court documents...

Editors Note: This is the third and final article in the series. The trend in commercial property assessment has been ever upward. In both the state of Missouri and Vernon County, assessed valuations on residential, agricultural and commercial property increased in the decade between 1997 and 2007...

The Greater Ozarks Chapter American Red Cross-Nevada office will be conducting a CPR/AED and First Aid Instructor Class on Tuesday, Feb. 22; Wednesday, Feb. 23, and Monday, Feb. 28, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The class will be held at the Pine Street Baptist Church, 240 North Pine Street in Nevada...

City Manager JD Kehrman told the council during Thursday night's special meeting that this was an excellent test of the city's newly formed field operations department, on its first day in operation. "Overall, I'm very pleased," Kehrman said. The field operations department replaces the public works department and is responsible for streets, and new water and sewer construction...

Giles, Ralph, Graham and Neal Broadbent, also known as Stringfever, will perform at Cottey College on Friday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m., in the Auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. According to information from Cottey College these four world-class musicians play electric violins, viola, and cello with a little bit of beat-boxing thrown in for a truly original show. ...

The Missouri Department of Transportation has been making progress in clearing major highways as well. As of Thursday afternooon, MoDOT reported U.S.Highway 71 to be mostly clear in Vernon County and Barton County, and partly covered from the Jasper County line south to the Arkansas state line; while U.S. 54 was reported as partly covered, from the Kansas state line west, to Hickory County...