Stories from Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Marshall-Saline Development Corporation discussed education at their regular meeting on Aug. 2. The corporation hopes to continue working with Missouri Valley College to establish internship programs as well as to assist them with housing. Director Bill Riggins believes the living facilities at the college could dissuade students from coming to Marshall...

Owen Dwight King, 75, of rural Marshall, died Saturday, July 30, 2011, at his home. No services will be held. Arrangements are in care of Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall. Born Aug. 4, 1935, in Howell County, he was the son of the late Ralph Edward King and Doris E. Green King. He had lived in Marshall the last two and a half years, moving from Montana, and was a retired mechanic...

Donald Eugene Brown III, of Sedalia, died Friday, July 29, 2011, at Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia. Cremation. No services will be held. Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home of Marshall is in charge of arrangements. Born May 17, 1990, in Marshall, he was the son of Donald Eugene Brown Jr. of Marshall and Wanda Pummill Brown Gaddy of Columbia. He was raised by Carolyn Wakefield and her husband, Allen, who survive of Sedalia. He was a graduate of E.W. Thompson School in Sedalia...

Carol Howery, 68, of Marshall, died Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, at her home. Funeral arrangements are pending at Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall.

Robert L. "Lindy" Nichols, 88, of Marshall, died Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, at Pioneer Skilled Nursing Center in Marceline. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Marshall, with Rev. David Slusher officiating. ...

Harris, Brayman were district entries in the spring

The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre will shift gears, from the just-concluded run of the comedy "Run for Your Wife" to mystery with "Black Coffee" by Agatha Christie. The play was Christie's first mystery to appear on the stage, according to a news release from the Lyceum, but all of her classic hallmark traits were already present, including the great detective, Hercule Poirot...

Weber wins only race

From left, Al Casey and Marshall Board of Trustees member Virginia Ashford organize literature in the lobby Monday morning, Aug. 1. The library is closed from Aug. 1-14, as new carpeting will be installed. Staff members and volunteers also spent months re-categorizing books in order to implement the new BISAC model. ...

Interesting news and features published in our print edition and E-edition August 2.

After two months of dumping record amounts of water into the Missouri River, the Army Corps of Engineers announced a plan on July 29 to gradually slow releases through September. However, for farmers in the Missouri River bottoms, the announced doesn't stop the flood fight they are now waging, nor the crop losses. It also doesn't keep them from blaming the Corps of Engineers for causing the problems in the first place...

A typical "small" community in Taiwan houses nearly 1,000, so imagining a village such as Arrow Rock would baffle many of those people. "They were always very concerned about a town the size of Arrow Rock, and how it would be able to survive," said Kathy Borgman, president of Friends of Arrow Rock...

The semi reluctant Slater City Council agreed to host Rock Fest in the Park and Tech N9ne at the Slater football field on Friday, Sept. 30. Rock Fest has been held at Slater Lake for the past seven years and typically houses more than 400 guests. Tech N9ne will be one of eight bands performing...