Stories from Friday, June 22, 2007

After pounding out 13 runs in both games of a doubleheader at Carrollton last week, the Marshall Seniors 16-and-under baseball team found the going harder during Thursday's home rematch. Marshall allowed four unearned runs and was shut out until its final at-bat during a 4-3 loss in the opener before hanging another unlucky number on Carrollton during a 13-4 rout to close the evening...

SLATER -- What began as sublime became ridiculous Thursday at Lions Field, where the Slater Optimists -- after playing competitively against Babe Ruth Junior League leader ConAgra during an 11-5 loss -- was pounded beyond submission by Coreslab in a 21-1 nightcap...

Pitcher Logan Kirchhoff was the only player chosen from Santa Fe for the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association's 2007 Class 1 all-state team as an honorable mention selection. Kirchhoff, a sophomore right-hander, posted a 7-2 record and 2.40 earned-run average, completing seven of nine starts among his 11 appearances on the mound. In 61-plus innings of work, he struck out 81 batters and walked 26, allowing only 1.19 walks and hits per innings pitched...

Sometimes, it's quite easy to sit down at a keyboard and write a column. On a good day, and with a subject already decided, the words flow easily onto the page. Other days, it's a struggle just to come up with a subject, let alone one that seems worthy of 800 or 1,000 words or so...

The West Central Commissioners Association held its quarterly meeting in Marshall on Thursday, June 21. State Sen. Bill Stouffer (R-Napton) spoke to the group about plans for expanding Interstates 70 and 44. According to Stouffer, the interstates were built in the mid-1950s and into the 1960s. The interstate system was designed with a 20 year life-span and a traffic flow of 20,000 vehicles per day. Today I-70 has an average of 36,000 vehicles per day...

The Marshall Chamber of Commerce held its 86th annual awards banquet on Thursday, June 21, to honor State Farm Insurance Agent Dale Zank as the business of the year and George Green as the citizen of the year. Angie Wells, 2007-2008 chamber president, read a brief overview of the accomplishments of Zank's agency while a slide show compiled by Marshall Chamber of Commerce's Administrative Assistant Jill Murray played...

Members of the Marshall Public Schools summer school enrichment theater course will present "Bye Bye Birdie" beginning on Tuesday, June 26. "Bye Bye Birdie" is about a rock singer, Conrad Birdie, who has been inducted into the army. As a publicity stunt he decides to kiss a lucky girl, Kim Macafee of Sweet Apple, Ohio, on the Ed Sullivan Show before parting...

Marshall school board to meet June 26 The Marshall school board will meet Tuesday, June 26, at 7 p.m. in the Central Administration office at Vest and Miami. On the agenda will be a proposal for the district to join a data warehousing consortium, a second reading of the facility plan for next year and administrative reports, including one on end-of-year benchmarks and one on the status of the Comprehensive School Improvement Plan...

Jo Ann Schouten, 60, of Marshall died Wednesday, June 20, 2007, at her home. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 23, 2007, at Moore Funeral Home in La Monte. Pastor Steve Ragland will officiate. Burial will be held at Houstonia Cemetery in Houstonia. ...

Helen M. Schumacher, age 82, formerly of Concordia, died Sunday, June 17, 2007, at The Living Center in Marshall. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 27, 2007, at St. Paul 's Lutheran Church in Concordia, with the Rev. Harold Block officiating. ...

May K. Wilcox, 87, of Slater, formerly of Wellsville, died Wednesday, June 20, 2007, at Big Bend Retreat in Slater. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at Weiker Funeral Home in Slater. Rev. Robert Sisney will officiate. ...