Stories from Monday, June 18, 2012

Virginia C. Palmer, 87, of Higginsville, died Thursday, June 14, 2012, in Higginsville. There will be a private family inurnment at Blackburn Cemetery at a later date. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.hoeferfuneralhome.com. Born Saturday, Oct. ...

Both Viking bull riders finish in top five

Kaye Wright, 71, of rural Marshall, died Saturday, June 16, 2012, at The Living Center in Marshall. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 20, 2012, at First Baptist Church in Marshall. Burial will be in Ridge Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church. Memorials are suggested to Saline County Fairground in care of Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home, and an online guestbook is available at www.campbell-lewis.com...

Ricky Lynn Schoen, 47, of rural Marshall, died Saturday, June 16, 2012, at Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Marshall, with William W. Harlow officiating. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Ricky Schoen Grandchildren Fund. Friends may sign the online register book at www.campbell-lewis.com...

The Saline County Career Center's Practical Nursing Program will hold a graduation ceremony for its 44th class at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 28, in the Little Theatre at Marshall High School.

You bump across the train tracks that split the still town's Main Street from the highway and find yourself in the midst of Blackburn. Here, historic buildings flank the road. Some boast Coca-Cola murals on their brick facades.

In his program notes, Director Quin Gresham says he believes "The Music Man" to be America's greatest musical. That may be especially true for Saline County, where the fictional Iowa town and its residents will seem very familiar and where the idea of music as the source of hope and rejuvenation is a living tradition...

Members of the Brigadier General Thomas A. Smith Chapter of Daughters of 1812 rang bells at Saline County Courthouse on Monday, June 18, in remembrance of the War of 1812. Monday is the bicentennial of the date President James Madison signed a declaration of war...

Saline County Prosecuting Attorney Don Stouffer charged Cody Williams, 18, of Slater, with an unclassified felony of statutory rape of a person less than 14 years old. Saline County Sheriff's Department deputies questioned Williams after the victim's mother saw him beneath her daughter's window with a stepladder on Saturday, June 16. ...

Interesting news and features published in our print edition and E-edition June 18.

During a regularly scheduled council meeting Monday, June 18, the City of Marshall approved allowing one business to move forward with the construction of residential housing, while another requested rezoning an area from residential to commercial. The final plat of the North Ridge Subdivision, located on East Eastwood Street, was approved during the meeting. ...

William M. Vaughan Jr., 90, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, June 2, 2012 at Missouri Veteran's Home in Cape Girardeau. A memorial service was held Thursday, June 7, 2012, at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 30, 2012, at Miami Cemetery in...