Stories from Thursday, March 4, 2004

The Saline County Commission opened bids Wednesday for painting the Associate Circuit Courtroom and will wait for a recommendation from Judge Tut Bellamy to award the bid. The commission said Thursday the two bids were $5,760 from Smith-Hecke Construction of Marshall and $5,369 from Harris Construction of Marshall...

The sentence of a Kansas City man convicted of drug possession more than a year ago was reduced in Saline County Circuit Court last week. William H. Fields, 50, pleaded guilty to one count of class C felony possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced on Sept. 10, 2002, to 20 years in the Department of Corrections...

A two-vehicle collision in rural Saline County injured four people Wednesday morning. A preliminary report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol shows the crash occurred at 10:28 a.m. on Missouri Highway 41 at its intersection with County Road 107...

A survey recently conducted by the Missouri Municipal League shows Missouri legislators value the opinions of their counterparts at the city level. Councilman Ron Monnig, who represents Slater in the league, discussed the survey's findings at Tuesday's meeting of the Slater City Council...

A year after Malta Bend City Council awarded a bid to have manholes in the small town repaired and ditches cleaned, the city is still waiting for the work to be completed. City Attorney Jay Barton attended the city's September 2003 meeting to look over the contract with Severn Trent Pipeline Services Inc. of Hazelwood...

Indian Foothills Park's tennis courts could soon get some much-needed improvements through two new funding ideas being explored. The worsening condition of the tennis courts has been a topic of discussion at nearly every meeting of the Marshall Park Board since November, when a group of tennis players came to ask that something be done...

Wednesday's meeting of the Marshall Park Board drew a standing-room-only crowd eager to hear the board's decision on leasing a portion of Indian Foothills Park to Full Circle Leisure, a for-profit business interested in promoting a local concert series...

"Happy 100th birthday, Dr. Seuss!" That was the cry during two Read Across America celebrations in Marshall this week, during which children learned more about the famous author and the importance of reading. The first celebration took place Monday evening at Bueker Middle School under the sponsorship of Marshall public schools' Title I and Parents As Teachers programs, with 100 children and their families joining to listen to Dr. ...

Myra Garst Templeton, 60, of Sedalia, died Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 5, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Marshall. Chris Harper will officiate. Pallbearers will be Larry Hare, Greg Swift, Todd Garst, Randy Templeton, Kent Templeton and Rodney Gentry. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery in Warsaw. Memorials are suggested to Children's Therapy Center or the American Cancer Society...

In the late '40s and early '50s, there was a large exodus from the Ozark Mountains to major population centers in the Midwest. They left off plowing in the rocky soil and planting their few rows of corn to be used for meal and feed. They came out of the timber, leaving their saws, axes and mauls at temporary mills on forgotten dirt roads. They walked away from 100-acre homesteads on hilltops and from ancestral cabins built on richer, darker creek-bottom land way back in the hollers...

BOYS Class 1, District 5 Tournament (Silex) (Semifinal) Wellston 74, Silex 43 Class 1, District 7 Tournament (Kingsville) (Semifinal) LaMonte 44, Leeton 42 Wellington-Napoleon 55, Kingsville 42 Class 2, District 7 Tournament (Glasgow) (Semifinal) Harrisburg 70, Fayette 50...

Boys NCMC Conference Overall School W L W L Helias 7 0 18 10 Hannibal 5 2 16 12 Rock Bridge 5 2 16 10 Kirksville 4 3 14 11 Fulton 2 5 10 17 Moberly 2 5 9 16 Mexico 2 5 6 18 Marshall 1 6 8 16 Lewis & Clark Conference Overall School W L W L Salisbury 8 2 22 4...

Wednesday, March 3 Boys Class 3 Dexter 45, DeSoto 42 StL-Lutheran South 47, St. James 38 StL-Vashon 53, StL-Country Day 35 Borgia 52, Jennings 45 Willard 71, Eldon 41 Ozark 59, Webb City 45 KC-O'Hara 41, Warrensburg 25 Kearney 40, KC-St. Pius X 26 Class 4...

Thursday-Saturday, March 4-6 at Johnson City, Tenn. Missouri Valley College Roster Men Event Entry Class Rank Mark No. 1 Rank 55 Dash Tarrence Rhodes Soph. 22 6.47 Delwayne Delaney, Fr., Paul Quinn (Texas) 6.28 DeAngelo Brooks Sr. 48 6.56 800 Run John Bohl Sr. 23 1:57.46 David Rotich, Soph., Spring Arbor (Mich.) 1:50.70...

Returning to the cozy confines of Osage Field had an uplifting effect on the Missouri Valley College baseball team following 10 games on the road. Sophomore Jordan Lundberg cracked two homers as the Vikings twice came from behind to take both ends of a twinbill involving NAIA Region V powers, beating 10th-ranked Missouri Baptist -- the region's No. 1 team -- 9-6 and 4-2...