Stories from Friday, June 19, 2015

Steven Lee Duffey, 67, Nevada, Mo., passed from this life on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at his home in Nevada, following a lengthy illness. Steve was born Aug. 5, 1947, in Nevada, Mo., to Boyd Calvert and Doris Jean (Cox) Duffey. He was united in marriage to Janie Lea Fritter on Oct. 15, 2010, in Hot Springs, Ark., and she survives of the home...

For much of my life, I like many of you, had dreams of special future happenings. Many of those dreams were founded more in fantasy than reality, but were they ever such great comfort to my soul. Recently, I had to remind a dear friend, that their one very special dream was still relevant, even though they felt that the time for its fruition had perhaps passed...

During the next two years of political speeches and candidates' pledges and arguments with their party and with the other party, more than once someone will say, "Something doesn't smell right." I would more likely say that something doesn't sound right, I don't like to smell something that doesn't smell right...

ear Editor To the head coach of the Nevada Griffons: You've had like four games rained out, but if you had the tarp out on the ball field, you would be able to play ball. So put the tarp on the field so we, the fans, can watch some baseball. Mike Headley...

Nevada Daily Mail The Missouri Prairie Foundation will hold a dedication of Pleasant Run Creek Prairie, as well as a walking tour of the site and the adjoining Denison Prairie at 2 p.m. Saturday. Tallgrass prairie once covered more than 15 million acres of Missouri, but today less than one-tenth of one percent, or fewer than 90,000 scattered acres, remains. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The local emergency response agencies in Vernon County as well as other organizations heard a report from Nevada's city manager concerning the joint dispatch center during the Local Emergency Planning Committee meeting Wednesday. J.D Kehrman told the agencies of the current financial struggles faced by the Western Missouri 911 Dispatch Center, as they continue to try to function with a $425,000 annual budget, when research has shown that it would be most efficiently and effectively run with a budget of more than $700,000.. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Griffons head baseball coach Ryan Mansfield said the Griffons are offering a reward for the return of property stolen out of the team's press box at Lyons Stadium Monday night. He added that rewards would not be given for leads alone...