Stories from Friday, March 21, 2014

Marguerite Phelps, 93, Monett, Mo., formerly of Nevada, Mo., passed away March 16, 2014, in Monett, following a brief illness. Marguerite was born March 23, 1920, in Montezuma, Kan., to Landon Milligan and Myrtle Daisy (Brown) Milligan. She was united in marriage to William Earl Phelps on June 19, 1940, in Nevada, and he preceded her in death on Feb. 17, 2003...

Doug and Ashlee Harper, of Nevada, Mo., and older sister, Rylee Olivia, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Colton Thomas Harper. Colton was born at 8:18 a.m., Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at Mercy Hospital, Fort Scott, Kan. He weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 20 inches...

Thirteen contestants will grace the stage in hopes of being selected the winner in the 12th Annual NHS Renaissance Male Handsome Pageant. The event arrives tonight at 7 in the Ella Maxwell Center for the Performing Arts. Doors will open at 6 p.m. There is a cost...

The Nevada R-5 Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to hire Dr. Tyson Beshore as the R-5 Superintendent effective July 1, succeeding Dr. David Stephens, who announced his retirement in February. Beshore has worked for the R-5 district for 16 years. He began teaching in the district in 1998 and served as assistant principal for four years and two years as principal at Nevada Middle School. For the past five years Beshore has been the R-5 district's assistant superintendent...

Nevada Daily Mail "We thought we had turned it around in the three months preceeding February," CFO Greg Shaw told the Nevada Regional Medical Center Financial Strength Committee Tuesday. "We're right back at where we were before. It's pretty depressing to see that again. The two things that really drove it are not on the expense side of the equation. It's on the net revenue side."...

Marijuana is an extremely controversial subject just about anywhere in the United States. Medical marijuana is now legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Of those states, Washington and Colorado have legalized marijuana for recreational use...

March Madness - it turns normal people into zombies, with furrowed brow, wrinkled foreheads and grim facial expressions one moment and euphoric zealots jumping up and down the next. For true basketball fans, there's not much better. It's the time of year when college basketball reigns supreme, when teams from all across the country converge on a handful of locations and begin a playoff countdown for the national title...

Hi neighbors. There have been signs for almost two weeks: robins dive-bombing each other, sparrows collecting twigs, squirrels acting like spastic ninjas, children chasing each other around at the bus stops. These are all typical spring phenomena. One day last week I actually left my screen door open almost twenty minutes. The next day I was scraping ice off the car windshield...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada R-5 students may have to attend classes during spring break next year if the 2014-'15 winter brings as much snow and cold weather as occurred this winter. During the Nevada R-5 Board of Education meeting Wednesday, the board voted unanimously to approve the school calendar for the 2014-'15 school year which includes six makeup days, May 4, 26 and 27, March 16 and 17, during spring break, and April 6...