Stories from Friday, April 25, 2014

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor The Northeast Vernon County Knights and Lady Knights baseball and softball teams got back into action Wednesday, hosting the Panthers and Lady Panthers of Sheldon High School and finished the day with mixed results...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor "We got the game in, which is the biggest thing." Nevada Tigers head baseball coach Danny Penn and his squad entered Thursday afternoon unsure whether or not they would get to play as heavy rains forced the El Dorado Springs Bulldogs to close off their field, moving the game to Nevada...

The Nevada Tigers golf team made its first appearance at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course for the season Tuesday, taking on Carthage in a two-team, nine-hole match. The Tigers won the match with a 161, five strokes ahead of Carthage. Nevada's junior varsity squad finished at 199 and the Carthage JV only brought three players, not enough to count toward a team score...

Thanks to multiple rounds of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms that moved through the region Wednesday night into Thursday, several area high school athletics events were postponed. In total, three area schools were affected by Thursday's cancellations. Nevada was hit hardest, as athletic director John McNeley was forced to call off two different events and move another...

Mark Lee Baldwin, 72, Nevada, Mo., a longtime area business owner, passed away Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at his home following a lengthy illness. Mark was born July 18, 1941, in Ozark, Ark., to Roy Lee Baldwin and Julia (Powell) Baldwin. He was united in marriage to Carmen Gaye Howell on Dec. 29, 1962, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

It's that time of year again, when those of us who have lived all our lives in "tornado alley," begin to pay a lot more attention to weather. When I was a kid, my Grandparents had one of the only basements in our neighborhood. It became the unofficial adjacent "storm shelter," for everyone who wanted to join us, during a severe storm...

Nevada Daily Mail During the Walker Board of Aldermen meeting on Monday Phillip Martin was sworn in as the mayor. Norman Radde and Pamela Scholes joined the board as newly elected aldermen, and Radde was elected president of the board. The aldermen approved resolutions allowing the mayor and clerk to sign checks and have access to the safe deposit box for the town...

Nevada Daily Mail The latest results from the USDA Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook aren't wallet-friendly for meat buyers. The first quarterly report for 2014, published in mid-April, gives an overview of livestock and poultry prices for both commercial and retail buyers. The statistics on beef and pork estimate high prices for consumers through the next few months...

Nevada Daily Mail Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon joined 3M Plant Manager Todd Cantrell and Nevada Mayor Seth Barrett, along with a crowd of 3M employees, city, county and state officials, and representatives of the press and media Wednesday morning to announce the company's latest expansion...

From Friday through Sunday we enjoyed seeing, eating and visiting with 17 relatives to celebrate the birthday of one grandson, Easter and spring. Some came from a short distance, some from farther away and some live nearby all of the time. We weren't with each other all of that time, but we saw most of them several times and a few for the entire weekend. I kept remembering similar weekends several generations back where we were the visiting family to our parents at the Wayside...

Throughout Missouri during the Civil War, the Confederate guerrillas or Bushwhackers (if one is of the northern persuasion) consistently eluded their Yankee pursuers. In fact, the Bushwhackers just seemed to disappear into the brush after a long or short chase...

Dear Editor, Fifty years ago, the final class graduated from the school in Deerfield. The graduates went off in different directions to build their lives, but the memories remain. We remember the wooden desks with ink wells, the large round wooden table where we did our lessons. We played on the merry-go-round, the slide, the swings in the back, and games in the schoolyard. Who can forget the outdoor privy?...

Every day across Missouri, hundreds of citizens are summoned to the courtsto serve on juries. They come to perform one of the most significant civicduties granted to citizens -- they serve as fair and impartial jurors. The right to trial by jury is a hallmark of the American justice system. It was such an important concept to the authors of the U.S. Constitution that this right was placed in the Bill Rights...

They say you should not judge a book by its cover. Although this is true, a law enforcement officer's appearance is what will form a citizen's first impression. This first impression affects how the citizen will respond to the officer when he shows up at a call. This could change the entire direction of how that call will go!...

As the school year winds down and thoughts turn toward the future, our school leadership across the county faces a Herculean task that just seems to grow more challenging. Over the past decade, school funding has become even more tumultuous amid an ever-increasing landscape of state and national mandates and regulations and a local and state economy that remains shaky...

Hi neighbors. For the last week my son has been in Texas meeting his soon-to-be in-laws. He arranged for a friend to tend to his two cats and asked me to take care of the Corgi named Zeus. Zeus grew up here at my house as a puppy and he seemed quite at home. He has had no problem assimilating his old routine and seems very content to revert to being a spoiled pup...