Stories from Saturday, March 18, 2017

Tournament fishing is the ultimate test of a fisherman's nerves. Everyone loves to tell big-fish stories, but a tournament angler can't lie. At the end of each day of tournament fishing the scales tell the truth about ones' skills. Tournament fishing keeps getting more popular, with as many as hundreds of fishermen registered in a single tournament...

Coming off spring break, Nevada R-5 student-athletes are set for a busy week ahead with the start of the spring sports' calendar. March 20-24 Nevada Tigers' baseball opens its season Monday, as Danny Penn's club hosts West Central Conference foe Warrensburg. The first pitch is slated for 4:30 p.m. at Lyons Stadium. The Tigers then conclude the week with a non-conference contest on Friday against Carthage...

Ruby Pauline Yeats, 80, Nevada, passed away on Thursday, March 16, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin following a brief illness. Pauline was born March 17, 1936, in Milo, to James B. and Mary Alma (Bridgewater) Smith. Pauline grew up in Nevada and attended Nevada High School graduating with the Class of 1954. ...

CHOICES. Everyone makes them everyday. Some are more important than others and often are made early in life. "The choices you make now will impact the rest of your life. We want you to graduate from high school and have choices," Ross Lawrence, Nevada Rotary Club past president, told a class of Nevada Middle School eighth graders on March 9, before school dismissed for Spring Break the next day...

According to Vernon County Sheriff's office, Christopher L. Ensor, 37, a rural Nevada resident, wanted on a Felony warrant, was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon after a deputy spotted him driving near the Sheriff's office in Nevada. Ensor was wanted on a warrant for failure to obey a judge's order on drug-related charges...

Unless you are there for an impending adoption or waiting to receive a nice settlement, the prospect of spending time in court -- let alone a whole day -- is one few would relish. Yet had you been there on Tuesday, your day would have been filled with moments which would, yes, make you shake your head, but far more which brought smiles and make anyone glad to have the judicial system entrusted to us...

Replacing an ambulance and missing financial reports were the center of discussion at Vernon County Ambulance District's monthly meeting Thursday evening. "I think we're past nickel and dime," director Leland Splitter said in regards to maintenance costs of Medic 3...

Deputies carry firearms to help protect the innocent from the worst dangers that can befall a citizen. Although their firearms are something we hope they never have to use, sometimes there is no choice. But part of training for any scenario also involves training for all options that could change the outcome of that scenario...

Hi neighbors. Is it too much to hope that winter has finally folded its tent and left Vernon County to allow spring to blossom? Time will tell. As with most things, resolution only comes with the passage of time. Patience is a virtue I have been told, and I have figured out there is no difference and no preference when patience is involved. It doesn't really matter if you have patience or not; actually patience isn't something to "have" or something to achieve...

Dear Editor: I am writing to express my dismay at the direction that this country has taken regarding immigration. We are letting our actions be guided by fear, rather than the principles on which this nation was founded, principles of liberty and justice for all...