Stories from Thursday, February 17, 2011

Rose Marie Chastain, 60, Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born Dec. 8, 1950, in Montevallo, Mo., to Daniel Curtis Pennington and Mary Blackmon Pennington. She was married Nov. 28, 1968, in Mount Vernon, Mo., to Lloyd Pat Chastain and he survives of the home...

Thelma Spencer Wade died Tuesday evening, Feb. 15, 2011, at home in Thomasville, Ga., of natural causes, at the age of 95. Mrs. Wade was born in Clinton, Ill., on Jan. 31, 1916. She and her husband, Vernon Wade, were long-time residents of Nevada, Mo., where they reared their family. ...

February 10 Bradley Schnedler was arrested for probation and parole. No bond amount. Leah Taylor was arrested for burglary. Bond is $2,500. Larry Moore was arrested for DWI. Bond is $5,000. Christopher McCurdy was arrested for hold. Bond is $5,000. Richard Gibeault was arrested for keeping and maintaining a public nuisance and possession. Bond is $100,000...

January 27 8:06 a.m.: An accident occurred at Route W and 54 Highway involving a car driven by Ryan H. Watts, Nevada, and a van driven by Ashley P. Million, Bronaugh. No injuries were reported. February 4 Barbara Trude reported a theft in the 100 block of South Ash Street. Items stolen were a wedding band and medication...

An Interactive Television program to discuss Missouri's Complicated Fence Law will be held on Monday, March 7, 6:30-9 p.m., at the Nevada TeleCenter that is located at 2015 N. West St., Nevada. There is a $5 charge for this meeting and that covers the program and materials. Pre-registration is recommended as space is limited...

With all of the talk about right-sizing the hospital staff to meet the patient demands there has been a lot of scrutiny around hospital spending. In 2010, Nevada Regional Medical Center purchased the commercial building at 345 S. Barrett Street in Nevada and did some other moving and reconstructing around the hospital. ...

It's not every day that you see a couple of long riders leading a packstring down a lonely stretch of Vernon County highway, but that's exactly what some motorists encountered on N Highway between Sheldon and Bronaugh on Tuesday morning. Wearing ball caps or stocking hats instead of fur hats, leading their string down the blacktop instead of through the back country of the Rockies, Jeannette and Richard McGrath of Jackson, Wyo., are on a long riders' trek that began in March of 2010 in San Francisco, Calif. ...

If all of the snow and bitterly cold weather have forced you into the need to escape winter's cabin fever then you need to attend "Catholic School Girls" at the Fox Theater this week. The comedy, written by Casey Kurtti, is according to the Westport News "brilliant .... A rollicking comedy that speaks to anyone who has known the terrible fears and insecurities that so often accompany ... 'the carefree days of youth.'"...