Stories from Tuesday, March 22, 2016
New tracking system for county officials (Local News ~ 03/22/16)
The Saline County Commission endorsed a letter in regular session Tuesday, March 22, detailing a new credentialing program for county officials and workers. The letter states the county will soon begin implementing a web-based credentialing system funded by the Department of Homeland Security. The system is primarily designed to identify personnel and equipment that respond to disasters or emergencies in the county...
Edna V. Campbell (Obituary ~ 03/22/16)
Edna V. Campbell, 92, of Bonner Springs, Kan., formerly of Kansas City, Kan., died Friday, March 18, 2016, at Bonner Springs Nursing and Rehab. At Edna's request no services will be held. Arrangements are under the direction of Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall...
John Crawford Stouffer (Obituary ~ 03/22/16)
John Crawford Stouffer, 72, of rural Marshall, died Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall. At John's request no services will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of John may be to Freedom of the Road Riders in care of Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home...
Stockyards (Agriculture ~ 03/22/16)
Receipts: 619 Week Ago: 922 Year Ago: 1040 Compared to last week, steers and heifers traded mostly steady on a lighter test. The majority of the offering sold in small lots. Demand moderate with a light to moderate supply. Near 50 percent steers and...
Ambulance Reports (Police Reports ~ 03/22/16)
Sunday, March 13: Before noon, Saline County Ambulance District 3 treated and transported two people experiencing a medical emergency requiring basic life support. After noon, Saline County Ambulance District 3 treated and transported one person experiencing a medical emergency requiring advanced life support, one person experiencing a medical emergency requiring basic life support and one person experiencing a medical non-emergency requiring basic life support...
Saline County Cattlemen Association announce 2016 Scholarship recipients (Community News ~ 03/22/16)
The Saline County Cattlemen Scholarship Committee has recently selected this year's recipients of $500 scholarship money toward their Freshman college expenses. Scholarship Chairman Monte Fenner stated that the organization has been awarding scholarships to Saline County high school seniors for more than 25 years. ...
MVC student presents research on aggression measurements linked to video games (Community News ~ 03/22/16)
Missouri Valley College assistant professor Dr. Jared Bartels and MVC undergraduate psychology student Alexander Nielsen, a sophomore from Denmark, traveled to the Great Plains Psychology Convention in Kearney, Neb. on March 11 and 12. Nielsen presented his research entitled "Drinking the hot sauce: Are researchers actually measuring aggression in violent video game research?" at the convention. ...
Court News (Court News ~ 03/22/16)
14SA-CR00520-01: Jackson, Kastavas Delbreco, born 1978, 6003 East 8th Street, Kansas City. Class D felony, driving while revoked/suspended. Guilty plea entered; sentencing scheduled for April 25, 2016. 15SA-CR00223-01: Johnson, Dwight Lee, born 1992, 569 S. ...
City Council addresses waste removal (Local News ~ 03/22/16)
Spring cleaning was on the mind of the Marshall City Council at its regular meeting Monday, March 21. Councilman Dan Brandt urged citizens to dispose of yard waste properly or use it on site as mulch or compost. "Don't dump your yard waste along a lake or a tributary," Brandt said. "Yard waste has a tendency to just go to the bottom of a lake and decompose very slowly, and it ends up also robbing a lot of the oxygen from the river or lake."...
MVC presents "No Exit," April 6-9 (Community News ~ 03/22/16)
The Missouri Valley College Fine Arts Division will present "No Exit," an existential drama by Jean Paul Sartre. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. nightly, and run from April 6-9 in the Eckilson-Mabee Theatre. Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in hell. ...
Marshall Community Chour to host spring concert (Community News ~ 03/22/16)
The Marshall Community Chorus will present its spring concert "America Proud" Sunday, April 10, at 3 p.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church. Featured will be an original composition by Arrow Rock singer/songwriter Tempe McGlaughlin, titled "The Still Small Breath of God," along with other well known selections. The concert is open to the pubic and admission is free. A reception will immediately follow the concert...
Janet Louise Closterman Ewertz (Obituary ~ 03/22/16)
Janet Louise Closterman Ewertz, 80, of Marshall, died Tuesday, March 22, 2016, at Apple Ridge Care Center in Waverly. At Janet's request, no services will be held. Memorials are suggested to Community Cancer Center in Marshall in care of Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home. An online guestbook is available at www.campbell-lewis.com...
State 4-H Conference Develops Young Leaders (Agriculture ~ 03/22/16)
Saline County 4-H Junior Leaders Simeon Buie of Malta Bend and the Work-To-Win 4H club, along with Blake Summers of Slater and the Missouri 4-H State Council, were among the 333 people attending the Missouri 4-H Teen Conference held March 12-13, at the University of Missouri in Columbia...
MHS Band gets lesson from esteemed conductor (Community News ~ 03/22/16)
On Thursday, March 17, the Marshall High School band got the opportunity to work on their selections for Missouri State High School Activities Association's State Music Festival with Gary Gackstatter. Gackstatter is an active artist, composer, conductor, clinician, performer and teacher...
Police Briefs (Police Reports ~ 03/22/16)
Tuesday, March 15: 12:39 p.m. -- While on stationary patrol, officers were approached by a man who stated his vehicle had been damaged by another while at Collins Pop Shop on South Odell Avenue. The non-injury accident occurred when a man attempted to drive his vehicle between parked car and a delivery truck. The vehicle sustained minor damages to its passenger side as it scraped along the trailer of the truck...
Letter to the Editor (Letter to the Editor ~ 03/22/16)
Letter to the Editor, I grew up in Marshall. Even though I moved away many years ago, I still own property here, and consider Marshall my home. I frequently return to Marshall to visit family, and have born witness to the decay and destruction of the character and very fiber of that which makes Marshall great. ...
MPS discusses potential outside classroom, pay scale increase for speech pathologist (Local News ~ 03/22/16)
A Socratic-style outdoor classroom could be a future addition for Marshall Public Schools. High School English Teacher Bryan Gaskill presented the idea for an outdoor classroom to the Board of Education at its regular meeting Tuesday, March 22. The project would utilize empty space between the high school and central office. Gaskill said the project would help unite and build a community between the students, the faculty and citizens...