Stories from Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Donald Ward Sheets, 90, Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., following a brief illness. He was born on Oct. 17, 1922, at home in Avilla, Mo., to John William Sheets and Lois Maybelle Paul Sheets. He married Jeanne Anne McHugh on June 25, 1949, in Nevada, Mo., and she survives of the home...

Death delivered Mary Ann "Mimi" Denman Campbell from the scourge of cancer into the arms of God on Dec. 8, 2012. Born March 29, 1952, in Nevada, Mo., to James H. and Beverly B. Denman, she lived Americana. Teenybopper Mimi loved hanging with her friends at Radio Springs Pavilion and cruising country roads. ...

By Brennan Stebbins Carthage Press CARTHAGE, Mo. -- Nevada's Grace Reichard was nearly four seconds better than everybody else Monday at the Carthage High School Iron Woman Pentathlon at the Fair Acres Family YMCA. Reichard posted a total time of 5 minutes, 16.62 seconds to win the Iron Woman Award, figured by combining times from each of Monday's five 100-yard events: the individual medley, butterfly, freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke...

Nevada Daily Mail HARRISONVILLE, Mo. -- The Nevada Lady Tigers varsity basketball squad didn't get off to the best start in the Harrisonville Holiday Tournament, but more than made up for their struggles in the tournament's opening game Tuesday night when they used a 29-13 fourth quarter to lift them to a 68-47 victory over Sherwood...

Nevada Daily Mail BRONAUGH, Mo. -- The Bronaugh boys' and girls' basketball teams hosted Golden City Monday night and came out of the night on the short end of a two-game sweep. In the boys' game, Golden City cruised to a 14-point victory by a final score of 82-68. The girls' game was a much closer and lower scoring affair as Golden City took the victory by a final score of 30-25...

A local man who's been cultivating an ever-growing vineyard near his South Main Street home is looking into purveying his wines, instituting a local winery; one of the hurdles he faced was that the city of Nevada had no licensing provisions in place for such a venture...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council gave its final approval to ordinances upping the city's water and sewer rates. The first of these raises the sewer rate for the first 1,000 gallons from $7.15 to $10, and increases the rate for each $1,000 gallons thereafter from $3.76 to $4.70. ...

By James R. Campbell Nevada Daily Mail Opened Dec. 12 upon its redesignation as the former U.S. 71, Interstate 49 from Kansas City to Pineville is in much better shape than Missouri's other interstate highways, whose maintenance is an ongoing concern, the Missouri Department of Transportation and outgoing State Rep. Barney Fisher say...

Nevada High School student council members helped with the food distribution coordinated by Community Outreach, held at the National Guard Armory, tuesday. Barbara Long, Community Outreach director, said the program provided food for more than 400 families, which is an increase of about 100 families from 2011. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Smiles? Check. Lists? Check. Kids? Check. Gift wrap? Check. Holiday helpers? Check. The members of the Nevada Police Department had all they needed in place for Saturday's special mission. That's when officers joined forces with youth from Heartland Behavioral Health Services to make sure some children from local families who are facing financial hardship had a very merry Christmas...