Stories from Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Missouri Valley College will open an Early Childhood Lab School at First Christian Church in Marshall. The school is projected to open Aug. 14. The goal of the lab school is to provide the MVC and Marshall communities with quality childcare for children ages birth to five years, according to a news release from the college...

Nellie T. (Backes) Mertensmeyer, 94, of Carrollton, passed away Thursday, June 6, 2013, at Carroll House in Carrollton. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Carrollton, with Father Ken Criqui officiating. ...

Dale Max Lageman, 72, of Waverly, passed away, Thursday, June 6, 2013, at Western Missouri Medical Center in Warrensburg. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 9, 2013, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Waverly, with the Revs. Brett Mueller and Timothy Millie officiating. ...

The Living Center Car Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 22, in the parking lot located at 2506 Linden Tree Pkwy in Marshall. There will be a $5 pre-registration fee. Judging will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Trophies will be awarded to resident choice "Best of Show," first and second runners up...

Monday, June 3: Before noon, Saline County Ambulance District No. 3 treated and transported to a hospital two people experiencing a medical emergency requiring advanced life support. After noon, they treated and transported to a hospital two people experiencing a medical emergency requiring advanced life support, two people experiencing a medical non emergency requiring advanced life support and one person experiencing a medical non emergency requiring basic life support...

Tuesday busy for Vikings

Numbers remain good for Marshall

Nearly all sales taxes reported for the month of June in Saline County showed a considerable increase from the previous month and from the same month last year. Saline County Auditor Tara Vogelsmeier presented the numbers during the Saline County Commission's Tuesday, June 11, meeting...

Quartz Avenue, south of the 260th Road and North of County Road P, is closed to traffic due to the collapse of a small bridge which was scheduled to be replaced this summer. "The bridge we are going to replace this summer has broken up, almost fell in," said County Roads and Bridge Supervisor Justin Cowart at a meeting of the Saline County Commission Tuesday, June 11...

Hope was a word said often by Melody Dierking, sponsorship co-chair, at the Relay for Life banquet on Monday, June 10. "Where do you keep your hope?" she said. "It's not just another prop that we keep in a drawer to pull out on Relay night. Or even a little something that we keep in our pocket or our backpack. Hope is an action verb and I keep mine in my hands."

Wicky Sleight, director of the Marshall Public Library, said it's been a long few months preparing for the summer reading program, slated to start Thursday, June 13. "But we are still looking for volunteers, anyone who can help us set up the event that day," Sleight said during the library's board of trustees monthly meeting Tuesday, June 11...