Stories from Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Esther "Pat" Ruth Cassity Reid, passed away peacefully, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, at Circle of Life Hospice in Bentonville, Ark. Pat was born April 4, but as a lady, never revealed her true age. Because of this, her family always found her to be young at heart...

Monday, Nov. 25: Before noon, Saline County Ambulance District No. 3 treated and transported to a hospital one person experiencing a medical emergency requiring advanced life support and one person experiencing a medical non emergency requiring basic life support...

The Saline County Commission approved switching from Coventry Health Care to BlueCross BlueShield for all county employees at the Tuesday, Dec. 3, meeting. "The opportunity has been presented to us to renew the county's health insurance a year earlier than would have been the case," Presiding Commissioner Tom Stallings said. "It wouldn't have been renewed until May 1 of next year, but by that time the Affordable Care Act would have kicked in and had an effect on premiums."...

13SA-CR00189-01: Allred, Sierra Nicole, born 1994, 110 W. Kentucky, Malta Bend; 2 counts class C felony forgery; probation revoked, sentenced to 7 years in the Department of Corrections on both counts; all sentences to run concurrently with case no. 13SA-CR00639-01;...

Jessica Browning, an agriculture student at North Central Missouri College in Trenton, recently participated in the Missouri PostSecondary Agriculture Students Organization State Conference in Park Hills. The conference was hosted by Mineral Area College. ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- One university in the farming state of Missouri has expertise in cotton and another in dairy. Forget it, though, if an agriculture student at one school wanted to learn about the other school's specialty. But that's about to change through an experiment, touted as a first of its kind, in which five of the state's public universities are working together to share some of the agriculture courses that make them unique...

Janet Bolzenius, of Marshall, celebrated her 90th birthday Saturday, Nov. 30, with her family. She was born Dec. 5, 1923, in Washington, Mo. In 1946 she married Ralph Bolzenius and they had six children. Bolzenius was able to celebrate her birthday with all six of her children and their spouses, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren...

Marshall Municipal Services announced ending dates for compost and yard waste at the Marshall City Council meeting Monday, Dec. 2. Weather permitting, Saturday, Dec. 14, will be the last day to load compost until spring. Dec. 16-20 will be the last week for yard waste pickup...

On Monday, Dec. 2, Hardeman School students performed their Christmas concert, "It All Happened in the Country." The musical was directed by Margaret McCampbell and told the story of some city kids stuck in the country on Christmas Eve. The country folk welcomed the city kids and told them the story of Christmas. ...

High school basketball scores for Monday, Dec. 2