Stories from Thursday, July 14, 2011

It's been a century and a half since the civil war began, but it was such a factor in the history of and further development of this nation that many of the events that occured before the war and during the bloody years of the conflict are commemorated with monuments and markers of some type...

The Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce welcomes their new executive director, Gina Ensor. Ensor will be introduced at the Friday chamber luncheon on July 15 and will begin work the following Monday. After a short orientation from the current interim director, Jason Claspill, Ensor will take over as the permanent, full-time director...

STOCKTON, Mo. -- Charles West bought his 37-foot sailboat in Florida and had it trucked halfway across the country to its new home on Stockton Lake. West and his wife, Betty, are among the 300 or so regulars with sailboats at Stockton, a mecca for sailors amid the pastures and farm fields of southwest Missouri on the western edge of the Ozarks...

Ima June Frost, 76, died on Monday, July 11, 2011, at the home of her granddaughter, Rachel Havu, of Buxton, Maine. June was born in Deerfield, Mo., on June 12, 1935, the daughter of Alfa Ray and Jennie Marie Trapp-Carpenter. She graduated from high school in Missouri and was a waitress before moving to Maine in 1959...

Doris Maxine (Miles) Wilson, 83, of Independence, Mo., left us to be with the Lord on June 30, 2011. She was born May 15, 1928, in Nevada, Mo. Maxine, as she preferred to be called, devoted the majority of her life to helping and caring for others. Her wit and sense of humor could light up a room, and she could always find some good in most any person or situation. ...

June 28 Jerry L. Baker, Butler, Mo., speeding 44/30. Roy A. Collins, Nevada, speeding 70/55. Roger P. Keister, El Dorado Springs, Mo., speeding 53/40. Paulette F. Lechman, Nevada, speeding 42/30. Jay C. Marbough, Sheldon, Mo., expired license plate...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Griffons beat the Joplin Outlaws 11-5 Wednesday night and with the help of the Ozark Generals beating the Sedalia Bombers moved back into first place in the South Division of the MINK League by 1/2 game...