Stories from Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Nevada Daily Mail Franklin P. Norman Community Center is hosting a "Take A Walk Around America!" Each participant is provided a "paper doll" to place on the map located in the lobby. Dress up your "doll" or leave it plain, it's your choice, noted a press release from the center. 

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Nevada Daily Mail Undeterred by the weather, 20 teams participated in the Walker Fire Department's first coyote hunt fundraiser Jan. 9 and 10. The hunt was one of two fundraisers for the fire department that weekend, the other being their annual Chili and Soup Dinner on Saturday evening. ...

Nevada Daily Mail In a regular, scheduled meeting Wednesday evening, Superintendent David Quick told the school board that the district needs to start looking for a replacement school bus, and the senior class has lost $400 of meat due to an electrical outage...

Nevada Daily Mail Search teams recovered a body in the water at the Four Rivers Conservation Area in Vernon County Friday, at approximately 10:08 a.m. The body was positively identified as Adam J. Nixson, 29, of Pleasant Hill. Nixson was reported missing on Saturday, Dec. 28, after he failed to return from a duck hunting trip. Once recovered, the body was released to the Vernon County Coroner David Ferry and transported to Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada...

Nevada Daily Mail The Bronaugh School board held its monthly board meeting Thursday night and voted 6-0 to make the campus tobacco-free effective immediately. Superintendent David Copeland raised the issue because of concern about some community members being worried the canopy outside of the main doors of Bronaugh School was becoming the smoking section of the building...

Nevada Daily Mail For most teenagers, school ends with the last bell each day. Many head off to sports practice, or band, while others head home. This is not the case in veteran science teacher Carrie Sutcliffe's room at Hume High School. Students from sixth grade and up are diligently building or revamping projects, or studying material for tests. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Tuesday's freezing led the Nevada City Council to postpone its Tuesday meeting until 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 21. During this meeting the council will, among other issues, consider a measure to put a city operated public transportation system into operation...

Nevada Daily Mail Kristie Modlin, treasurer for the City of Nevada, told members of the Nevada Lions Club Tuesday that the city is ready to roll out the Fare Share Transportation Program. The program is designed to provide public transportation to those who need it, during the hours of the greatest demand, while keeping the program affordable, she said...

Joseph Dale Marlow, 93, longtime educator/superintendent in area school districts of Hume, Metz, Bronaugh, and Dadeville, passed away Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada. He was born May 24, 1922, in Lockwood, Mo., the ninth of 10 children born to the union of Joseph William and Gertie Mabel (Polston) Marlow. Leone and Joe met in Liberal, Mo., and on June 3, 1947, they were united in marriage...