Stories from Friday, September 23, 2016

Rachel June Harmon, 74, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Sept. 7, 2016, at her home in Nevada. Rachel was born Oct. 8, 1941, in rural Horton, Mo., to Walter Sewell and Opal June (Webster) Harmon. Rachel was raised in Horton and attended school in Metz. After her father's passing in 1958 she along with her mother moved from the family farm to Nevada. Rachel continued to attend school in Metz and graduated High School with the Class of 1959...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This column originally appeared in the July 16, 1999 edition of The Daily Mail. In 1923, Vernon County joined the list of counties in Missouri taking advantage of the Smith-Lever Act by starting the University Extension Service with James Huster as our very first County Agent. ...

The included picture was taken inside the Logan Field NHS Tiger Locker Room, following the September 30, 1966, victory over Lamar in the annual 'Silver Tiger' contest. I found this picture in the Google newspaper archives. This particular article was part of the Sunday Nevada Herald (that was what the Sunday paper was named back then). Just seeing it again made the proverbial "hair on the back of my neck stand up."...

gfranklin.nevadadailymail@gmail.com Earthquakes and preparedness took center stage at a Wednesday meeting of the Vernon County Emergency Management Committee. Vernon County Emergency Management Director Dennis Kimrey gave a report on the Region D Mass Care exercise held in Diggins, Mo., at the end of August...

jbrann.ndm@gmail.com Thursday's 7 a.m. meeting of the Northeast Vernon County School Board received information on a new scoreboard for the softball field, enrollment figures, facility enhancements and general news from the Walker and Schell City campuses...

gfranklin.nevadadailymail@gmail.com Monday evening Walker city clerk Linda Longstreth submitted her resignation minutes prior to the board of alderman meeting. "Well, things have changed. I would like to call an emergency executive meeting as of now," mayor Phil Martin said after the board had cleared away several house keeping items on the agenda...

The Nevada Lady Tigers finished third of four teams at Thursday's West Central Conference girls golf tournament at Hidden Pines Country Club in Warrensburg. Hosting the tournament, Warrensburg High School emerged as WCC champions with a team score of 357 at the Par 71 course (36 front nine, 35 back nine). Sedalia Smith-Cotton finished runner-up with a score of 406. Nevada tallied a 482, while K.C. O'Hara finished in fourth with a 517...

The Nevada Middle School seventh and eighth-grade teams trumped visiting Neosho in three of its four matches Thursday evening at Nevada Middle School. The NMS eighth-grade "A" team breezed to a two-set victory 25-19 and 25-15, while the NMS eighth-grade "B" team prevailed in three sets 25-19, (25-16), and 15-6...

The Nevada Tigers eighth-grade football team racked up over 400 rushing yards Tuesday night at Logan Field en route to a 42-20 victory over El Dorado Springs. "It was one of those nights where everything on offense was clicking," Tigers head coach Robert Miner said."...

It was a good day for Nevada Lady Tigers softball Thursday afternoon at Bushwhacker Field. Behind Kylie Boyd's strong outing in the circle, Nevada put together arguably its best performance of the season, derailing the Clinton Lady Cardinals 6-3. Clinton entered the contest 5-0 in the West Central Conference. Meanwhile, the Lady Tigers improve to 3-1 in the WCC and 6-12 overall...

Nine consecutive victories to open the season catapulted the Nevada Lady Tigers tennis team to its first West Central Conference championship since joining the WCC in 2014. In addition, Nevada (11-1 overall, 5-1 WCC) was selected as the No. 1 seed at the upcoming Class 1 District 12 tournament to be held Sept. 26-28...