Stories from Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Valley uses 13-0 second-half run to go ahead

Six Wildcats make team

The Chamber Tourism Committee is requesting roughly $79,000 from Marshall Tourism Commission to disperse to multiple organizations throughout the Marshall area. The commission met this morning, Wednesday, Nov. 17, to review the separate grant applications from those groups affiliated with the Chamber. Requests vary from several hundred dollars for radio and newspaper advertisements, to several thousand for statewide advertising, such as buying space in Missouri Life magazine...

No obituaries were submitted for publication Wednesday, Nov. 17.

More than 250 nativities from around the world will be on display Saturday, Nov. 20, and Sunday, Nov. 21, at the ninth annual Nativity Festival to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Saline County. And this year, the event will have special meaning to organizer Kathy Borgman, who has for years helped provide olive wood nativities for the event...

The first thing Marshall Fire Fighters said when they learned the Democrat-News was going to fry a turkey was: "Don't do it on a deck." That was followed closely by "Make sure it is thawed and dry." Food days at MDN are special occasions. Everybody brings something. But the highlight, and the trigger for this food day, was the deep fried turkey...