Stories from Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Margaret Jane Clark, 85, a resident of rural Fort Scott, died Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, at the Fort Scott Mercy Hospital. She was born July 14, 1928, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Fred Anderson and Lola Harvey Anderson. Margaret married Donald E. Clark on Oct. 14, 1950, at Kansas City. He preceded her in death on Nov. 12, 2002...

Nevada Daily Mail After failing to reach a quorum in October, the Harwood Board of Aldermen met Friday to discuss finances and pay bills. The aldermen approved 3-0 the town's financial report without a bank statement and a deposit to the DMV. "Street lights cost $350, water $100 and mowing $60," clerk Donna Rickey told the aldermen...

The Vernon County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday that it has filed for a second felony warrant on a subject that was arrested late Thursday night in Milo. Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher said that his deputies and agents from the C-Net Drug Task Force were conducting an investigation into drug distribution in Vernon County and had been doing surveillance on a residence just inside Milo...

Editor's note: The play is showing Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Fox Playhouse, 110 S. Main, Nevada. Special to the Daily Mail Those of us who face every April with fresh hopes and exaggerated expectations for award-winning homegrown tomatoes and acknowledge every September that the summer was indeed a bad year for farmers might not face "A Bad Year For Tomatoes," with the right attitude...

Nevada Daily Mailv It has been more than five years, since anyone in any of the Vernon County's Future Farmers of America chapters qualified for the national Agriscience Fair competition. After winning the state competition for his research on hedge apples, Cole Diggins, 15, of Bronaugh, applied for the national contest in Louisville, Tenn., and qualified with 540 other FFA members from around the country...