Stories from Thursday, December 29, 2011

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School football team was not the only program to have a successful 2011. The Nevada Griffons and the NHS softball team are two other programs who provided top stories of 2011. Griffons take third at NBC in Wichita The Nevada Griffons summer collegiate baseball team brought home a third place trophy from the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan. ...

Football season is top local sports story of 2011

Margie Ellen Breneman, 86, of Apex, N.C., passed away peacefully on Dec. 22, 2011. She was born to Thomas and Velma (Steele) Longabaugh in Metz, Mo., on Sept. 19, 1925. Throughout her life, Margie has always been a woman of great faith. She expressed her faith through membership in the United Methodist Church and association with the United Methodist Women's Circle. ...

Charles E. Wales, 88, Nevada, died on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, at Nevada Medicalodge. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 31, at Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada. Interment will follow in Newton Burial Park, Nevada. Family information will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada...

Mr. Joshua F. and Dr. Kimberly D. Allen of Eddington, Maine, and big twin brothers, Caleb Scott and Keegan Thomas, are pleased to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Kiernan Wesley Allen. Kiernan was born at 9:48 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 29, at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. He weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces, and measured 20 and 1/2 inches...

Sam and Teresa Reed of Nevada, Mo., and older sisters Kerrigan and Kadence, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Elliot Paige Reed. Elliot was born at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 14, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces, and measured 20 inches...

The Nevada Parks and Recreation Board voted 5-0 Wednesday night to approve an agreement between the city and the Nevada-Vernon County Chamber of Commerce to transfer ownership of the "Osage Archer" mural to the city so it can be put in the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center after its restoration is complete...

In 2011 the community struggled with a slumping economy, but fun and tradition also took its place this year. A look back at the trials and triumphs of 2011 continues today.

Missouri state politics are always in a state of flux, often quite rapid and volatile, and in 2012 will keep exhibiting those characteristics, according to Vernon County's present and future representatives. With the 96th General Assembly convening Jan. 4 in Jefferson City and their newly realigned districts taking effect in January 2013, Rep. Barney Fisher of Horton and Sens. David Pearce of Warrensburg and Mike Parson of Bolivar said the 3 1/2-month session will be fast-moving and contentious...

The Lights at the Lake drive through Christmas light display at Radio Springs Park, which will be open from 5:30 to 10 p.m. through Dec. 31, has received $4,445 in donations through Dec. 28, park and recreation director Dana Redburn told the parks board Wednesday. Redburn said that she is thinking about finding some sponsors for future years to help cover some of the cost of the lighting display...

The Nevada City Council approved a $59,076 matching grant from the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the design of a project to rebuild the apron at the Nevada Municipal Airport during their May 4, 2010 council meeting. During the council's Jan 3 meeting, at 7 p.m., in council chambers at the Public Safety Building at Ash and Austin, Nevada, they will be looking to move that project forward when they consider an agreement to increase the amount of the matching grant by $1,082,372 to cover the cost of the construction which is expected to be completed by Dec. ...