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On Wednesday evening, July 30, Nevada Rotarian Jennifer Gundy presented the Nevada Parks and Recreation Board with a proposal for Walton Lake Park improvements. The proposal is part of the Nevada Rotary’s upcoming 100th anniversary in 2026. Gundy mentioned the possibility of archways, a shade canopy, regular and ADA accessible picnic tables, more bench seating and a possible annual event at the park sponsored by the Rotary...

X marks the spot, or least it used to. Of course, hidden pirate treasures didn’t have GPS back in the day. Thanks to the Department of Defense making the satellite triangulation technology open to the public in May 2000, modern treasure hunters all over the planet can take part in the relatively new activity known as Geocaching...

Sarah “Sally Barker” Turner, the daughter of Dennis and Helen (Lindsay) Long, was born April 8, 1942, in Tarkio, Missouri. She attended Tarkio High School, graduating in 1960. On August 16, 2017, Sarah was united in marriage to David Turner. She made her home in Tarkio until moving to Nevada, Missouri, where she lived until the present time...

She’s been singing the opening National Anthem for the racing fans at Wheatland’s Lucas Oil Speedway since she was in second grade, but this year brought a new challenge to Nevada High School Senior Aubry Null. For complete story, see the print or online edition of the Nevada Daily Mail...

Michael and Nercy Kramarz invited members of the city/county government and the Nevada Main Street Alliance team to tour the historic Nevada Post Office/Sheriff’s Office and view the major renovations that have accomplished since moving here from Hawaii a few years back. ...

Thursday’s meeting of the Nevada Public Library Board of Trustees featured updates on a lot of the work that has been taking place over the last fiscal year. Library Director Jodi Polk reported there has been an increase in participation in the library’s programming. She said there have been some good partnerships and social media contacts made, which has led to getting the word out to a larger audience...

Work continues on reopening the Moore-Few Care Center kitchen. A report on the kitchen was given during the Wednesday, July 23, Long Term Care Board of Directors of the City Convalescent Home (Moore-Few Care Center). For complete story, see the print or online edition of the Nevada Daily Mail...

The Griffons pulled off the upset victory in Chillicothe Monday night as they bested the No. 3 seed Mudcats to advance in the MINK League playoffs. The Griffons entered the playoffs as the No. 6, lowest seed, and traveled to Chillicothe to face the Mudcats Monday night in the first round of the MINK League playoffs...

The Elks Lodge #564 has started a program to help kids who have to leave their homes and go into foster care. Packing Up Hope is a program to provide backpacks filled with essential items for those kids. The idea for the program came about when Elks Lodge #564 members Steve Brooks, administrative assistant to Missouri Elks Association State President Dr. Jason Meisenheimer, and Sherrill Brooks, administrative assistant’s spouse, recently attended the Elks Convention...

You can always tell the new school year is upon us when the stores are decked out with colorful notebooks, reams of paper, and end caps of pencils, safety scissors, erasers, and all the things on the teachers’ back-to-school lists. And for the last several years, another sign of the times is the growing mountain of backpacks and supplies on the square among the queues of shiny vintage trucks and autos...

The beating of drums and blowing of horns has been used to signal military operations for many decades, if not centuries. Now it has been honed to a toe-tapping type of entertainment, carving out a popular musical niche all its own. Anyone who has enjoyed the Nevada High School Marching Crimson Sound knows the cadences and rhythms of the bass, quads and cymbals. ...

Yes, that is, in fact, four zeros after the first number on the check from a grant initiated by 3M for the Nevada Middle School. “This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate what our industry partners within the community are willing to do to help our students and our teachers be successful,” NRTC Director Eric Schneider said...

The Nevada Griffons finished a winless eight game road trip after an 8-0 loss Monday night in Clarinda, IA to the A’s. The loss was the eighth straight for the Griffons with all of them on the road as Nevada fell to 8-23. The Griffons remain in a tie for the sixth and final MINK League playoff spot with Sedalia with five games to play, but the Bombers own the tiebreaker...

Toward the close of the 2025 Vernon County Youth Fair, family and friends gathered at the Centennial Building to honor Leonard Ernsbarger, former MU Extension Youth Program Associate and a familiar and beloved face in Vernon County 4-H for decades. Two specially designed planters located outside the Centennial Building were dedicated to him...

As participants were packing up their projects and cleaning out the stalls toward the end of the 80th Vernon County Youth Fair, members of the 4-H alumni gathered in the much-appreciated air conditioning of the Diner Hall for the 14th annual Alumni Celebration...

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The Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce met in the Vernon County Youth Fair Centennial Hall for the July meeting with Crystal Burch, Vernon County 4-H Council Advisor, providing the program. “It never ceases to amaze me the work (of) the Vernon County Fair Board and the volunteers that have the best in our fairgrounds do," Burch said. ...

You never know what new ideas you might pick up driving around in another town, which is what happened to Bill and Andrea Gregory as they were out and about in Arkansas one evening. Noticing a community coming together for a local picnic, something Bentonville does every Thursday, gave Gregory a vision. The image stuck in Gregory’s head...

A small pin oak seedling rests in its black plastic pot taking in the summer sunshine. It is one of the several hundred seedlings started by Nevada’s Dr. Warren Lovinger as part of his focus on the environment during his year-long tenure as district governor for Rotary District #6110...

Thinking of going back to school? Need some in-home help before and/or after having a baby? Or maybe there’s just a stray dog in your yard. Better yet, perhaps you don’t need anything at all, but you know someone who does. Enter the Nevada Housing Authority Annual Resource Fair, which was held this year on Tuesday, June 24, at the Nevada Community Center. Represented at this year’s event were many of what NHA Director Amanda Koehn refers to as “community partners.”...

It's been a long time coming, but the Missouri Statewide Interoperability Network (MOSWIN) is coming to Vernon County. That technology will mean better communication among emergency responders throughout the county and allowing communication with other entities across the state...

Its summertime…. and my mind drifts back to the days of the early to mid-1970s when my daily ritual was to ride my bike to the Nevada square and meet up with my childhood best friend, Danny Jones. Danny’s dad, Robert D. Jones, owned Coast to Coast Hardware (later Sentry Hardware) on the west side of the Nevada Square. ...

Modern hospice care began in the mid-1960s with the first facility specializing in a holistic approach for end-of-life issues for patients and their families, including pain management, at St. Christopher’s, London. In the U.S., the first hospice arrived about 10 years later, but it's come a long way since then and is more than end-of-life care...

Among the many summer activities lined up for the summer and increase in use of the library, Nevada Public Library Director Jodi Polk had more to report during the June 27 library board meeting, about their active summertime with the increased use of the library with their many creative programs for people of all ages...

The Sedalia Bombers lived up to their name as a couple of homeruns prove costly to extend the Griffons' losing streak five games following a 12-inning loss Wednesday night at Lyons Stadium. The Bombers' bats got after Griffons starting pitcher Nathan Gonzales early with a lead-off walk and two homeruns to put the Bombers out to an early 3-0 lead in the first inning...