Stories from Thursday, September 27, 2012

Elvira M. Drunert, age 92, of Sedalia, passed away Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, at Bothwell Regional Health Center. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Sedalia with Reverend Jeremy Freeman officiating. ...

The Country Patchwork Quilt Guild is celebrating its 25th annual Quilt Show at the Martin Community Center from Saturday, Sept. 29, to Sunday, Sept. 30. According to co-chairmen Betty Lenz and Karen Guthrie, the show will have an antique quilting machine, silent auction, bazaar, a raffle quilt, fat quarter basket raffle and numerous vendors. A vendor will also be available to sharpen scissors and rotary blades...

Payments issued in October Annual rental payments for the CRP program are scheduled to be issued the week of October 1. Those participants utilizing direct deposit should see the payments in their accounts the week of October 8. DCP and ACRE direct payments will be processed after CRP, and participants should see those disbursements around October 15...

By GENE SCHMITZ MU Extension Livestock Specialist It is about 200 days until mid-April 2013 when producers can normally expect spring green-up in pastures. Recent rains have provided some relief from drought conditions and many pastures are producing some fall growth...

Prep Grid Preview ... Week 6

Valley men first in three of six events

Tourism groups are gathering their resources as the deadline for grant applications through the Marshall Tourism Commission looms. During an MSDC Tourism Committee meeting Wednesday, Sept. 26, chairman Stan Moore stated applications must be turned into the Marshall-Saline Development Corporation office by Oct. 31. Committee members will review the applications a week later and hand them over to the commission toward the end of November...

Longtime Saline County Soil Conservationist Wayne McReynolds was honored at a reception on Thursday, Sept. 27, at the Wood and Huston Community Room. McReynolds,73, has worked at the Saline County Natural Resources Conservation Service since it was formed 1974. He has spent more than 52 years working in civil service...

During their final meeting of the 2011-2012 fiscal year, city of Marshall council members approved an ordinance amending the budget for next year. The budget reflects revenues totaling $9,930,540, which includes Park and Library Funds. The anticipated expenditures total $10,013,937...

Long before Saline County citizens resided in Sweet Springs, Marshall and Miami, they lived in a variety of now lost towns such as Petra, Hazel Grove, Salt Springs, Jefferson, Marmaduke and Koping. Those were just some of the former towns local historian Marvin Wilhite highlighted at the Marshall Public Library on Tuesday, Sept. 25...