Stories from Friday, October 6, 2017

The normal issues with aging are bad enough but when they involve my computer or cell phone, I am forced to acknowledge that much has passed me by. In what we refer to as the cyber world, there is a common term “locked.” When either my computer or cell phone enters the locked stage it is akin to being incarcerated in jail...

For some odd reason, I have been getting up very early lately. I’m often the first one in the dining room for breakfast. I don’t know the reason for this. I suppose it’s partly due to the fact 1 don’t have a partner in the bed with me, but I will wake up and don’t want to go to the dining area before 7 because they’re not ready for me...

Getting back on the winning track, the Nevada Lady Tiger volleyball team breezed to a two-set conference victory over the visiting Clinton Lady Cardinals on Dig Pink Night, Tuesday at Wynn Gym. Nevada then returned to the court Thursday, for a West Central Conference road match in Kansas City, falling to the St. Pius X Lady Warriors in two sets...

Nevada High School sophomore Calli Beshore can’t be stopped, as evidenced by her fifth consecutive first-place finish achieved at Tuesday’s Springfield Underground Irish Invitational. The Carl Junction boys and girls captured first-place finishes at the 25-team event, hosted by Springfield Catholic, while the Nevada boys placed sixth, and the NHS girls, seventh...

On Monday, the city of Nevada received a complaint about a discharge which seemed to be coming from the NF Protein plant at 3100 Industrial Pkwy and which was making its way into local streams. According to City Manager J.D. Kehrman, it was originally thought the discharge was sewage, so Alliance Water Resources was sent to check it out. Eric McPeak reported that crews went to see if there was a leak coming from the city’s line...