Stories from Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Ruby Ellen Crow, 96, of Lenexa, Kan., died Saturday, March 16, 2008. Cremation. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at Holy Cross Catholic Church, 8311 W. 93rd, Overland Park, KS 66212. Private inurnment will be held at a later date at Resurrection Cemetery. ...

The Missouri Valley College baseball team let the first game of its home doubleheader Saturday get away, but not the second one as it split with Heart of America Conference rival Benedictine. Winning the nightcap didn't prevent the Vikings from falling out of the NAIA Region V rankings, having gone into the day at No. 5 -- not yet accounting for Thursday's rain-shortened 5-1, five-inning non-conference loss at William Woods. The Ravens (4-2, 3-1 HAAC) moved up a spot to sixth in the poll...

The second half of the Tucson Invitational went much better for the Missouri Valley College softball team, which rebounded from a 1-5 start to split its final six games. The Lady Vikings got the offense clicking with 19 hits in Thursday's opener, a 14-10 victory over Calvin (Mich.). The big inning was the third, and the big blow of that frame was sophomore Sara Irminger's bases-loaded triple. Junior Kimberly Fuller doubled in a run and junior Kristine Escujuri added an RBI single...

The Marshall City Council set a public hearing on a proposed zoning change on South Odell Avenue for 5:15 p.m. Monday, April 7. The request, brought to the city by Sandy Hisle, involves a potential retail development on the site of the old Pizza Hut near College Street and Odell Avenue...

Voices rose on a couple of matters at the Sweet Springs Board of Education meeting Thursday, March 13. Board member Cindi Sims asked the board to discuss distribution of board packets for closed session material. Sims apparently asked for materials prior to the Thursday meeting to prepare herself for the decision to be made that night and was denied until further investigation on if there was a policy or motion made by a board in the past on distribution of this material and also to get all board members input.. ...

The recent drought is certainly over and the weather Monday, March 17, put an exclamation point on that sentence. The drought in economic development projects may be over for the Marshall-Saline Development Corporation, too. At the MSDC board meeting Tuesday, March 18, Executive Director Roy Hunter reported that two new projects had been started recently and preliminary inquiries have been initiated by several companies, too...

Until the weather took a turn from bad to worse this week, Brown Construction crews made more headway recently in the demolition of buildings a block off the Marshall square. On Saturday, March 15, workers took a chunk out of the former Marshall Lumber Yard, the final and biggest building in the project. The photo on the left is from English Street looking east toward the square. The photo on the right is from Salt Pond Avenue looking southwest...

State Sen. Bill Stouffer, R-Napton, and state Rep. Joe Aull, D-Marshall, were at Stone Hedge Golf Club for a legislative luncheon Monday, March 17, sponsored by local economic development agencies. Both Aull and Stouffer spoke about current topics in state government before fielding questions from the small crowd...