Stories from Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Marshall Municipal Band has a wide variety of music scheduled for their concert this week, according to Director Kevin Lines, but the forecast for extremely hot weather has prompted band officials to move the concert indoors. The concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 28, will be held in the Family Life Center of the First United Methodist Church, 225 E. Arrow St...

High temperatures are expected to hover near the 100 mark Wednesday, June 27, through Saturday, June 30. Salt Fork YMCA officials said the facility will be open for free to the community from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday as a heat relief center. Those coming in need to have a photo identification, and all children must be signed in by an adult 18 or older...

Roberta F. Coleman, 87 of Higginsville, died on Monday, June 25, 2012, at Lafayette Regional Health Center in Lexington. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 28, 2012, at First Baptist Church in Higginsville, with the Dr. Greg Fine officiating and Sharon Pragman as organist. ...

Marjorie Ella Lees (Bobbie) Cornine, 90, of Sedalia, died Sunday, June 24, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 29, 2012, at Calvary Baptist Church in Sedalia. Burial will be in Union Cemetery. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. Friday until the time of service at the church. Memorials are suggested to Calvary Baptist Church or Union Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Meisenheimer Funeral Home in Pilot Grove...

Raymond H. Stoll, 92, of Blackburn, died Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at I-70 Community Hospital in Sweet Springs. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, June 29, 2012, at St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Blackburn with William W. Harlow officiating. ...

Mary Frances Peel, 86, of Slater, died Monday, June 25, 2012, at her daughter's home in Blue Springs. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, June 29, 2012, at First Baptist Church in Slater with Rev. Robert Sisney officiating. Burial will be in the Slater City Cemetery. Visitation will be held Friday from 9:30 a.m. until time of the services at the church. Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church...

Vernon Henry "Weinie" Meyer, of Brunswick, died Sunday, June 24, 2012, at Brunswick Nursing Home. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 29, 2012, at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Brunswick, with Rev. Rob Fields officiating. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. ...

The Marshall Chamber Tourism Committee, a volunteer group made up of tourism affiliates in Saline County, officially agreed to reorganize as an advisory committee. On June 21, the Marshall Tourism Commission voted to transfer tourism duties from the committee to the Marshall-Saline Development Corporation. During the committee's meeting Wednesday, June 27, member organizations questioned what each entity's role would now be...

A former Marshall man was killed Tuesday afternoon, June 26, in a four-wheeler accident in Pettis County, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report. Mitchell Allee, 18, was pronounced dead shortly before 7 p.m. at University Hospital in Columbia...

A special meeting of the Slater Board of Education focused on school financing June 27, and board members heard good news prior to reconciling the 2011-2012 budget. Revenues this year totaled $3,730,629 and expenditures totaled $3,595,190. The district ended in the black, but board members were enthusiastic to see the fund balance above water...

When the Wild Things reunite at Knights of Columbus Hall in Marshall Saturday, July 28, one the popular 1960s rock band's earliest members plans to be there. Whether he'll get behind the keyboards and play was still an open question during an April interview, but Bill Lovell definitely plans to be in the room with his old mates...

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