Stories from Wednesday, September 21, 2011

William James "Bill" Thornton, 95, of Sibley, died Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, at Speaks Buckner Chapel. Burial will be in Ridge Park Cemetery in Marshall. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, at the chapel. Online condolences may be expressed at www.speakschapel.com...

The Saline County Treasurer submitted the August 2011 CART report to the Saline County Commission on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Aid Road Trust Report 2011","interpolateNulls":false,"legend":"right","reverseAxis":false,"width":780,"height":336,"state":1" ","backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF","pointSize":0,"lineWidth":2,"logScale":false,"hasLabelsColumn":true,"hAxis":{"maxAlternation":1,"vAxes":[dollars","max":null,"minValue":0],"title":"August County Aid Road Trust","interpolateNulls":false,"legend":"right","reverseAxis":false,"vAxis":2". ...

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Darlene M. Middleton, 84, of Sweet Springs, died Wednesday, Sept 7, 2011, at Sweet Springs Villa. Cremation. No services will be held. Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall is in charge of arrangements. Born Jan. 18, 1927, in Sedalia, she was the daughter of the late Frank H. ...

The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre will be holding auditions from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, for Mid-Missouri's Got Talent, a fundraising event for the theater. Auditions will take place at the theater, 114 High St. in Arrow Rock. Performances can include singing, dancing, magic or comedy...

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Interesting news and features published in our print edition and E-edition September 21.

Sonny Sparks a certified VFW service officer will be in Marshall at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, for the Marshall VFW Post 2646 meeting in the Wood and Huston Community Room on the north side of the square. Sparks is from Truman Veterans Hospital in Columbia and will help service men, women and their widows with any questions they may have on benefits...

Craftsmanship, integrity, hard work. The dedication Beno Messer has given to each of his projects has spanned five decades and can be found in decoration throughout the county.

Peter Warnock, assistant professor of anthropology at Missouri Valley College, will lead a team of archaeologists in the excavation of an 1800s latrine in Arrow Rock Oct. 7-8. The goal of the project is to analyze the latrine's contents for evidence of diet and disease through pollen and parasitic remains, according to a news release from the college...

Contact Maggie Menderski at mmenderski@marshallnews.com