Attention Garden City Residents

Garden City wide Clean Up this weekend! Dumpsters will be located at the old grocery store parking lot.

Time to clean up our yards.. The following items not accepted are paint, batteries and tires. 

Brush dump site is open daily at the Old City Lake. 

Please take advantage of this opportunity clean up our City!

Butler Pre-School Announcement

PRE-SCHOOL SCREENING: Due to a large demand for preschool screening, we have opened a limited number of screening spots April 30, 2015. 

If you are interested in having your 3 or 4 year old participate in a FREE developmental screening, please call 660-679-6591 ex166. 

This is the first step for preschool enrollment. There are a limited number of spots so please call quickly as this will be the last opportunity for group screening this year.

Missing Dog in Butler

Missing in Butler, from Austin street. 

This dog was just rescued Monday night and she jumped the fence at her fosters house. 

Please keep an eye out and call Dwight at (660) 464-1176 if you see, or catch her.

Obituary - Mary Ann Yarbrough

A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held for 87 year old Mary Ann Yarbrough of Rich Hill, Missouri at 1pm on Friday, April 24th at the Sweetwater Tabernacle Church with burial in the Green Lawn Cemetery in Rich Hill.

She is survived by 4 grandchildren, Melanie Schnebelen, Nicholas Schnebelen, Kristopher Schnebelen, and Danyelle Schnebelen and 4 great-grandchildren.

New CEO at Ellett Memorial Hospital in Appleton City

At their regular monthly board meeting, the Ellett Memorial Hospital Board of Directors voted to take the Hospital in a new direction. They terminated the contract of Chief Executive Officer Ray Magers, who has been employed as CEO since April 2010.

The Board also appointed Chief Financial Officer Tom Hollis to the position of interim CEO. He will perform both duties during this transition. As a result, the Board has contacted an attorney from the Missouri Hospital Association concerning the legal responsibilities of the hospital in regards to the procedures for seeking managerial services.

The Board signed a non-binding letter of intent with Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar to investigate adding services, medical staff and possible management services for Ellett. CMH is already in a collaborative agreement with EMH, which is necessary for Ellett to qualify for Critical Access designation. This CAH designation is the program that has allowed EMH to continue operating for the last 20 years due to an increased Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement system.

Nevada man sentenced to 12 years in Federal Prison

Curtis Bowman

A Nevada man has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Tammy Dickinson says, 43 year old Curtis Bowman has been sentenced yesterday in federal court, to 12 years in federal prison without parole for receiving child pornography. Bowman was also ordered to serve a life term of supervised release following his incarceration, and to pay $12,140.00 in restitution to his victim. 

The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Douglas Harpool. 

On October 15th of last year, Bowman pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the internet. According to court documents, law enforcement officers in Cobb County, Georgia were contacted by the victim's mother that the victim had been engaged in sexually explicit e-mail communications with an individual identifying herself as Amanda Toben. On March 7th of last year, Georgia law enforcement officers identified Bowman as the individual receiving the communications. 

Local law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Bowman's residence, where he was arrested. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney James Kelleher, with help from the Vernon County Sheriff's Office, the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force, the FBI, and the Cobb County, Georgia Police Department.

Lyrid meteor shower crosses night sky

(CNN) - Look for spectacular shooting stars this week as the annual Lyrid meteor shower light up the nighttime sky.

Although the meteor shower started Thursday and goes through Saturday, the best times to view the shooting stars will be Wednesday into Thursday before dawn.

It's an especially good year to spot the Lyrids.

"This year the moon will be a waxing crescent only 1/15th the brightness of a full moon, and it will set early, allowing excellent dark sky conditions for this shower," Slooh Community Observatory astronomer Bob Berman said in a statement (PDF).

The Lyrids, which are pieces of debris from a comet, have been observed for more than 2,600 years, according to NASA. Each year around this time, the Earth runs into the comet's debris stream, which causes the shower.

"For the 2015 shower, I'm expecting 15 to 20 Lyrid meteors an hour," the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office's Bill Cooke wrote on a NASA blog.

"Peak rates should occur after 10:30 pm on April 22 your local time, for observers in the northern hemisphere. For observers in the southern hemisphere, Lyrid rates are not significant until after midnight your local time."

Stargazers in Europe may have the best views, but many people around the world should be able to spot the Lyrids. And there's no need to buy special equipment to spot the showers. Find a patch of a dark, open sky away from artificial lights, "lie down comfortably on a blanket or lawn chair, and look straight up," wrote Cooke.

Or head to your computer. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will livestream the event starting at 11 p.m. ET Wedensday. Slooh's livestreaming event starts at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday. Use the hashtag #SloohLyrids to ask questions that could get answered live.

The name of a shower is based on the point from which it originates, called the radiant. The constellation where the radiant is located gives the shower its name. In this case, home base is probably the constellation Lyra.


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Vernon County Sheriffs Office: Vehicle Pursuit of Deerfield man leads Deputies into Kansas

Kevin W Sisseck

A Deerfield man is in custody after a lengthy pursuit that led Sheriff’s Deputies back and forth across the Missouri/Kansas State lines late Sunday night. According to a press release from the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office, Deputies attempted to stop a vehicle on 600 and Lady Road when the vehicle began to speed away from the deputy. Additional units were called in to assist and when the vehicle crossed state lines, deputies from the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office, and Fort Scott Police Department also joined in the pursuit. 

According to the press release, the vehicle crossed state lines multiple times and several attempts to stop the vehicle were unsuccessful at first. “Several units attempted to deploy spike strips, but in each case they were too late or the vehicle changed directions and avoided the road block,” said Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher. The Sheriff said it was when the driver turned on what he thought was a road and ended up being a long driveway that the suspect was captured. “He turned down a private road that ended in the yard of a Kansas resident and the driver had nowhere to go” said Mosher. 

The driver has been identified as Kevin W Sisseck, 45, of Deerfield. Arrest warrants were issued by the Vernon County Courts Monday afternoon charging Sisseck with Resisting Arrest/Detention/Stop by Fleeing, a D Felony as well as Six Misdemeanor charges for various driving offences. Sheriff Mosher said Sisseck was taken into custody by Vernon County Deputies and turned over to Bourbon County Officials. He also said Sisseck may be facing additional charges in Kansas. “Since we arrested him in Kansas, he will remain in custody there until we obtain a Governors warrant to bring him back across state lines to face the charges over here,” said Mosher.

Sisseck was being held in the Bourbon County Jail as of Monday.