Stories from Thursday, June 29, 2017

Robert M. Molder, Humansville, was found not guilty in the shooting death of his mother, Margaret Molder, according to a press release from Cedar County Prosecutor, Ty Gaither. On Friday, June 23, following a four-day trial in Cedar County Court, in Stockton, the jury of eight men and four women took about three hours to deliberate before returning its verdict...

The Vernon County Collector/Treasurer’s office will be open today, June 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., including the lunch hour from 12-1 p.m. — when they are normally closed — to accommodate patrons on the last day of the month. Final reminder to those needing to pay 2014 and older real estate taxes: Friday is the deadline. ...

The City of Sheldon will hold a meeting at the city park on Friday, June 30, at 6:30 p.m. to revive the city’s park board. “That’s one of the things I have wanted to see get started is a good strong park board,” said Sheldon Mayor Robert Sewell. Sewell said a number of people from the community have expressed interested in serving on the park board which typically looks after the ball field and the city park, and assists Community Betterment with the tree grant program...

Discussion at the city of Walker’s monthly meeting Tuesday evening focused on the 2012 sale of approximately 7 acres of city-owned land to Clint Swopes and his request for a modification to his business license. Swope operates a saddle shop out of a shop on his property on West Southern Avenue and owns much of the property west of what is officially 7th street and south of Marvin Avenue...

Community Outreach received a little help this morning from the Chillicothe, Mo., Mudcats baseball team. Mudcat player Bryce Bisenius said they were, “just doing something to help out.” The Mudcats spent much of the morning unloading and sorting donations, packing bags of food to be handed out at the community kitchen and moving large items around at Loretta’s Attic...

For most of us, the time to take stock of the old and look ahead to the new is in December; for school districts, that time is now. Meeting in the school library at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, the Sheldon R-8 board began with a brief closed session for personnel matters and went on to review and finalize the 2016-17 budget and discussed and approved the 2017-18 budget...