Stories from Saturday, December 19, 2015

Dr. Susan Kipling Caldwell, 52, of Springfield, Mo., left this life for a much better one at Circle of Life Legacy Village Hospice, in Bentonville, Ark., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, after a long and courageous battle with breast cancer. She was born Aug. 23, 1963, in Pascagoula, Miss., to the late Tim Caldwell and Carol Robbins Caldwell...

John M. Atkinson, 85, Nevada, Mo., died on Dec. 18, 2015, at The Gardens, at Barry Road, in Kansas City, Mo. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 23, at First Christian Church, Nevada. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m., prior to the service at the church...

Someone once said, "There comes a time in every gentleman's life when he starts to value time -- he values it so much, in fact, that he wants to wear it as a gorgeous piece on his wrist." I have always had a small fascination with mechanical watches. ...

Hi neighbors! The countdown is almost over. By this time next week Christmas will be just another memory. Many people around the world celebrate Christmas Day as the birth of Jesus and hold religious ceremonies to reconnect to the meanings and founding principles of their beliefs...

Nevada Daily Mail More than 2,500 wreaths were placed on gravestones at the Fort Scott National Cemetery during the annual Wreaths Across America ceremony. Veterans of each branch of the military, the Merchant Marines as well as prisoners of war and those still missing in action, were remembered and honored through the placing of wreaths at the annual ceremony. This is the eighth year a local ceremony has been part of the national event...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Regional Medical Center board of directors was given some good news Tuesday during its 2015 annual audit report. David Taylor, director of BKD which conducted the medical center's audit,, told the board members of both the medical center and its long-term care center, Moore-Few, both made positive asset increases...

Nevada Daily Mail Four junior students presented speeches to the North Eastern Vernon County School Board about how the district could make the school better for its students. Haley Elliot, Calvin Tabor, Jadyn Bogart and Andrew Purchase each presented persuasive speeches written in Shelli McGrath's English class. ...

Already surpassing last season's win-total, the Hume Hornets basketball team trumped the Montrose Blujays 55-49 Tuesday night in Montrose. After winning only three games during the 2014-15 season, the Hornets are off to a scorching 5-1 start. In addition Hume is 5-0 in the Golden Valley Vernon County Conference...

Nevada's Lady Tigers hosted the Harrisonville Lady Wildcats this past Thursday evening at Wynn gymnasium for a victorious finish of 49-34. With the win, the Lady Tigers improve to 2-6 overall and 2-4 in the West Central Conference. The evening started slow with the first points a full two and a half minutes into the first quarter when Nevada's Jansen Miller put two on the board. ...

It's one thing to find fishing for crappie in the spring when they are spawning on a lake known for bass and other species, but in December? There is good news for crappie anglers this month on area lakes. Once you find them, they can be some of the best eating as well as fun to catch. No matter how big, deep or intimidating, places around docks, marinas, coves and brush piles can produce crappie all year...

The Nevada Tigers boys' basketball team erased a 12-point second half deficit to earn a 72-62 conference-victory over Warrensburg Friday night at Wynn Gym. The comeback improved the Tigers to 6-2 overall (4-1 West Central Conference). Things appeared bleak for Nevada as they trailed by a dozen points on two separate occasions in the third quarter. ...