Stories from Saturday, August 12, 2017

It’s hard to believe that in less than a month many hunting seasons will open, starting with dove, rail and snipe on Sept. 1. Gun season will start off with a big bang, opening Labor Day Weekend. Of course, squirrel season has been open since May 27, but most hunting doesn’t get going until dove season each Sept. 1...

Nevada fifth-grader Emree Cameron took her game to the U.S. Kids Golf World Championship, held Aug. 3-5 at Seven Lakes Golf Club, located near Pinehurst Golf Course in North Carolina. Cameron, competing in the 10-year-old division against 108 of the best young golfers in the world, finished tied for 44th with a 29-over par at the three-day, 54-hole event...

There are many things that can make the job of a law enforcement officer difficult. Seeing how some people choose to destroy their lives by the choices they make, seeing the effects of those choices on children, the victims, and the community can be hard and something you never really get used to. But one of the hardest things to see is an officer lose his or her life while trying to make this chaotic world just a little bit better...

Hi neighbors. With August moving right along, we still have a couple of summer weekends before school activities take over our weekends and evenings. I hope we can all get out and see the great outdoors. A friend and I were talking about typical Saturdays of our childhoods. We both had grandparents or parents who took their hen eggs to market on Saturday. I remember my grandmother talking about her “egg money” as her basic funds to buy groceries...

Missouri Farm Bureau The kids get on the bus every morning at 6:05. That’s because their bus ride in the tiny Alton School District in Oregon County, Mo., is an hour and a half long. The arduous bus routes and the hardship suffered by 6-year-olds riding the bus are a direct result of Congress’s failure to do its job. This failure comes at the expense of a young girl about 50 inches tall with a gap-tooth grin and a Hulk backpack, sound asleep on a hard, cold bus seat...

C.L. “Pete” Peterson, age 75 of Fort Scott, passed away Friday, July 14, as the result of an auto accident in New Mexico. He was born on Feb. 2, 1942, in Fargo, N.D. After graduating from high school he joined the U.S. Marine Corp and spent the next four years at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Japan and the Pacific Theater. ...

Norma Lee Payton, 64, of Nevada, died Thursday, Aug. 10, at Nevada Nursing & Rehab in Nevada. She was born on July 3, 1953 in Kansas City, Mo., to William “Bill” and Betty (Brown) Meals. No services are planned.