Stories from Friday, June 15, 2012

The Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Smith Chapter of the Daughters of 1812 will sponsor a bell ringing at 11:45 a.m. Monday, June 18, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the War of 1812. Everyone is invited to bring a bell to ring at noon on the south steps of the Saline County Courthouse...

Set for June 18-20 at Santa Fe gym

Bishop goes distance in opener

Both MVC bull riders already in finals

Ron Stanley (left) and Richard Pemberton (right) place a flag into a burn barrel during a flag retirement ceremony Thursday, June 14.

A family of nighthawks nested on the pavement near the Missouri Valley Community Action Agency, located on South Odell Avenue in Marshall.

The Lyceum Theatre continues the 2012 season with Meredith Willson's "The Music Man," which will open Saturday, June 16, and will run through Wednesday, June 27. Patrons of the Marshall Municipal Band will get a taste of the musical at Thursday's concert, when the band will perform "Highlights from 'The Music Man,'" a medley of songs from the Broadway classic...

The pelican snapped its beak in protest as Saline County Conservation Agent Andrew Mothershead wrestled the bird from its thin confinement. A discarded fishing line had disrupted the bird's typical migratory route through Saline County. While thousands of other pelicans flew free, this line had tangled the bird's nine-foot wing span. ...