Stories from Saturday, May 17, 2008

Ludwig Franklin Olson, 93, Nevada, passed away at his home in Nevada on Thursday, May 15, 2008, following an illness of several months. He was born Nov. 20, 1914, in Tacoma, Wash., to John Leonard Olson and Effie Armentia Tharp Olson. The family soon moved to Oklahoma and lived there and in Arkansas and Kansas before moving to Missouri in 1938...

Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks we have just endured -- and maybe are still experiencing -- one of the gloomiest winters and springs in recent memory. Gray. Rainy. Cold. Depressing. Wait. That's how a lot of folks -- smart ones, too -- describe the Oregon coast where my wife and I make as many trips as possible. However, we have thought about charging the Oregon Tourism Board a fee for our services. Every time we visit, the weather is sunny and gorgeous. Go figure...

The description and citation reads as follows: "POND, GEORGE F. Rank and organization: Private Company C, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry .Place and Date: At Drywood, Kansas, 15 May 1864. Entered service at: unknown. Birth: Lake County, Illinois. Date of Issue: 16 May 1899. ...

The devastation that swept through to the south of us has impacted many people in the area, one of them was Carol Branham of Nevada, who grew up just a few miles from Racine, where the May 10 storm caused much damage. Branham drove through the area and took pictures of some of the damage...

Nevada, Mo. -- The Fourth of July has always been a holiday dedicated to patriotic celebrations and this year Ron Brown would like to have a portion of that day dedicated to a show of support of American troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brown said that it has been five years since the Nevada American Legion held a rally to send area soldiers off to the Middle East. Since then, they have urged everyone to wear red on Fridays to show their support of American troops...

Nevada, Mo. -- Nevada police are searching for a local teen who has been missing since Thursday. On May 15, Haylee Ann McQuay was reported missing by her mother. Haylee is a 15-year-old white female, 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing 120 pounds. She has brown hair that falls to the middle of her back and brown eyes. She is wearing braces on her teeth. Her mother did not know what she was wearing when she left...

By Michael Fields Herald-Tribune El Dorado Springs, Mo. -- "Your Fired!" -- words made famous recently by Donald Trump, are words that the marketing II class of El Dorado Springs High School did not hear on May 10. The small class took their final exam Trump style -- by doing a project for community businesses and planning customer appreciation activities for those businesses...

By Chris Patch Herald-Tribune Nevada baseball's years in the Southwest Conference are over. The Tigers' 6-2 loss to Carthage, Monday night in the first round of the District 12 Tournament closed the door on an era of Southwest play and an 8-10, 3-6 2008 season, as the conference will dissolve next year. Looking back at a season that didn't end the way the team would have liked, head coach Jared Brown still found many positives to take away...

Special to the Herald-Tribune The Midwest Athletics Baseball Club, with players from Nevada, Fort Scott and Lamar, traveled to Lee's Summit, Mo., the weekend of May 9-11, to play in a tournament. The club won its first game on Friday. Saturday, however, was a different story. The team built a 5-0 lead in its first game, but somewhere in the fourth inning everything fell apart and just didn't come back together, resulting in a loss. The second game went much the same with another loss...

OTTAWA, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's track teams combined to send 11 entries to state, eight of them from the boys' team, out of the Ottawa Class 4A Regional Meet at Ottawa University Friday night. Final team scores have Fort Scott's boys fourth as a team behind champion Paola, DeSoto, then Louisburg. The girls' placed seventh with Baldwin winning the team title followed by Eudora and DeSoto...