Stories from Saturday, November 21, 2015

Nevada Daily Mail The city of Nevada Public Works will pick up leaves starting Monday, Nov. 30. Twigs, bagged leaves or limbs won't be accepted. Please have the leaves raked behind the curb and not in the street. Leaf pickup will begin in the southwest quarter then move to the northwest, northeast and southeast being the last quarter...

Nevada Daily Mail The Northeast Vernon County school board held a brief meeting, listening to a senior students request to add one more day to the senior trip, and the board heard the principals' reports on the math curriculum. A class of 2016 representative presented his request for the board to extend the 2016 senior class trip to Chicago one day so the students could spend more time looking around the city...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Police concluded an investigation into several criminal acts that occurred in the 1000 block of North Elm and 700 block of East Lee. Citizen reports indicated that the subject had unlawfully entered private residences on several occasions. Investigators received arrest warrants issued by the Vernon County Associate Court and executed those warrants with the assistance of the Nevada based Probation and Parole Office...

As I write this story, Missouri is fast approaching the end of its second full week of quail hunting. In the 17 years of writing this weekly column, stories about this challenging game bird, head up my most often used topic list. I awoke early Friday the 13th. When I looked at the weather app on my iPhone, the temperature outside was a brisk 28 degrees. My immediate reaction was to acknowledge, this would be a great day to go quail hunting...

As I have become older I realize that I am no longer as vain as I used to be. I can ignore a sore spot on my face without half of the worry the teen aged Carolyn used to have over the tiniest pimple. (Of course we used to call them Hickies until my kids laughed me out of the house!) As long as the doctor says it isn't one of the dangerous types, I can let it continue and shine on wherever it takes a notion. ...

In the past, I have quoted Henry Ford as saying, "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." Last Monday two people ran on foot after a vehicle pursuit, and at the time information was received that one of the suspects may be armed. ...

Hi neighbors. Time is getting short to prepare for Thanksgiving. Not to even mention Christmas shopping. Do you have favorite recipes for special occasions? Most of us do -- if not recipes to cook, then favorite dishes to eat. The traditional Thanksgiving with sweet potatoes cooked with brown sugar, butter and marshmallows seems to be a family favorite...

The Nevada Lady Tigers seventh and eighth-grade basketball teams are still perfect, as recent victories improved each team to 7-0. NMS eighth-graders The eighth-grade Lady Tigers hit the road Tuesday night, steamrolling Joplin North 46-7. Forward Teagan Charles scored a game-high 12 points while Payge Dahmer added 11...

FORT SCOTT -- One of the men's assistant coaches from Wentworth Military lamented the fact that he had to go to the locker room to help get his team ready as Fort Scott Community College and Cottey College played the fourth quarter of Friday night's game in the Gladbach Classic at Arnold Arena...

The 2015 firearm November portion brought out a lot of deer hunters across Missouri last Saturday. The opening day usually finds at least a quarter of the deer harvested during the 11-day season. The chances of a hunter getting a deer on any other day after the opening weekend falls off dramatically...

Nevada Daily Mail The Vernon County Ambulance Board owes the IRS more than its original $213,000 figure, according to board chairperson Chris Mason. Already in debt from a recent IRS tax lien and a litany of other unpaid expenses, the $213,000 figure previously presented to the public did not include unpaid withholdings for the second and third quarters of 2015...

John Harvey LaGuire, 71, Lee's Summit, Mo., passed away Nov. 18, 2015, at the home. Memorial services will be 1 p.m., Monday, Nov. 30, at Longview Baptist Church. Burial will be in Lee's Summit Historical Cemetery. Visitation will be at 12:30 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Longview Baptist Church or Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation...