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A Cedar Countian was hurt in a motorcycle
wreck on state highway 97, seven miles South of El Dorado Springs,
yesterday evening. 33-year-old Bobby Hoffman, Jerico Springs, was taken
to a Springfield hospital with serious injuries. Highway Patrol trooper
Rob Savage says the crash happened about 5:30 p.m. when the South-bound
Honda Goldwing Hoffman was driving ran off the right side of the road
and overturned, ejecting him.
A Southwest Missourian from Greene County
was hurt in a two-vehicle collision yesterday morning in Bates County.
Missouri Highway Patrol troopers say 43-year-old Gene Waterman, Bois
D'Arc, refused treatment at the scene, the junction of Route A and the
Sewer Plant Road. Troopers say the collision happened about 7:20 a.m. as
the 2006 Sterling driven by Waterman hit a 1985 Mercury driven by
73-year-old Albert Struttman, Hume, near the center of the road on a
curve. Struttman was not hurt.
11,309 registered voters in Vernon County
are eligible to vote today in the general election. The county's 16
polling places will be open until 7:00 p.m. as voters decide local
contests for associate circuit judge, county presiding commissioner and
state representative in Missouri House District 125. Also on the ballot
is a proposed countywide half- cent sales tax that could replace the
Vernon County Ambulance District's 15-cent property tax next year.
Ambulance district supervisor James McKenzie says if the voters approve,
the sales tax would take effect in January, the ambulance district
should begin receiving revenue next Spring and the board-of-directors
could roll back the property tax levy to zero when it sets the 2007 levy
next August. Coverage of the election returns will be heard after the
polls close tonight on KNEM and KNMO with reports from the Courthouse
and the Missourinet.
The two candidates for associate circuit
judge in Vernon County have spent nearly $20,000, combined. The Eight
Days Before Election reports filed by democrat challenger Neal Quitno
and republican incumbent Gerald McBeth listed total expenditures at just
over $19,700, $11,145 by the Quitno-For-Judge committee and $8,500 for
the Keep Judge McBeth committee. The Quitno committee reported receipts
exceeding $11,420 and the McBeth committee reported receipts of more
than $21,380. McBeth was named associate circuit judge 16 years ago by
then Missouri Governor John Ashcroft and won re-election four years ago,
edging Quitno by some 220 votes.
Increases in Nevada's water and sewer
rates are to be considered by the city council when it meets tonight.
The water rates proposal doubles, to $100, the charge for turning off a
water meter to prevent abuse, adds 30-cents to the minimum charge for
residential and commercial customers, adds 17-cents to the charge for
the usage of between 1,000 gallons and 49,000 gallons and adds 11-cents
to the fee for the usage of more than 50,000 gallons. The "tap" or
connection fee would be raised from $50.00 to $500.00 for each home
inside the city limits and $1,500 for homes outside the city. A second
proposed ordinance raises the city's sewer system charges. Also on
tonight's city council agenda are a special-use permit authorizing the
use of a home a 305 N. Ash as an accountant's office, zoning changes
proposed at 510 N. College and 1010 E. Locust, the declaration of the
former Key Building in the 600 block of E. Cherry Street as surplus
property and an agreement with the Nevada R-V school district for the
lease of Lyons' Stadium and Bushwhacker Field. New business on the
agenda includes an extension of up to six months in the contract of
interim city manager Harland Moore, the establishment of a city
infrastructure committee, a decrease in the size of the airport board
and an ordinance establishing the bidding procedure for the construction
of a family picnic shelter in Marmaduke Park. This evening's meeting
begins at 6:00 p.m. with a closed-door executive session at the public
safety building, 120 S. Ash, followed by the public meeting.
A rural Nevada man has waived a formal
arraignment on a felony charge alleging the theft of money from the
Nevada Eagles Lodge two years ago. The class C felony count, filed
September 30 against 53-year-old Garrel Bogart, alleges he
"appropriated" five Eagles Lodge checks, totaling $8,000, between
September 30 and December 8, 2004. Associate circuit court records at
the Courthouse indicate the warrant was served Friday, Bogart is free on
a $1,500 bond, Butler lawyer Harold Caskey waived the formal arraignment
on behalf of Bogart and a pretrial conference was scheduled at 9:00 a.m.
January 4, 2007.
Nevada police last weekend investigated
the theft of a car and cash. Detective Jim Dye says a blue, 1992
Oldsmobile Cierra was taken from a parking place at 217 N. West sometime
before 12:45 a.m. Saturday. Pamela Kegerries, Nevada, reported the
theft. The missing Olds carries license tags OAG/23B. The theft of an
undisclosed amount of money at MoJo's Restaurant, 100 N. Cherry, was
reported about 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Lane Baker, Nevada, reported the theft
of a Pioneer compact disc player, two Pioneer speakers and a compact
disc case with compact discs from a vehicle parked at 1202 N. Colorado
at 12:20 p.m. Saturday.
The annual Holiday Festival at the Osage
Prairie YMCA is to start at 6:30 p.m. Friday at 500 W. Highland.
Festival co-chairwomen Juanita Cragin and Lori Copeland say Heartland
Behavioral Health Services will cater a meal and there will be musical
performances by harpist Linda Carlton and the Soundsational Singers at
Nevada High School as well as the auction of holiday decorations, gifts,
merchandise and service certificates. Proceeds from the annual festival
will benefit the YMCA's scholarship program. Cragin, Copeland and YMCA
executive director Tedd Maxfield are the guests on today's 1:05 p.m.
public affairs program, Update, with more about Friday night's Holiday
Festival. Update airs after today's 1:00 p.m. ABC News on KNEM/KNMO.
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