Stories from Thursday, November 9, 2017

Area pecan growers are expecting much-improved production this year compared to last years dismal totals. “With the pecan industry you have a lot of highs and lows,” Joe Wilson said. Wilson is an area pecan grower and co-owner of Missouri Northern Pecan Growers...

With a host of NCAA Division II basketball programs eager to make him the centerpiece of their recruiting class, Nevada High School senior Clay Gayman elected to go a different direction. In front of a throng of his peers, NHS administrators, and teachers Thursday at the NHS Media Center Gayman inked a national letter-of-intent with the Division I Abilene Christian Wildcats...

With the duck season opening last weekend, area waterfowl hunters are excited about the conditions on conservation areas — including Schell-Osage, located in St. Clair and Vernon counties near Schell City, where more than 10,000 ducks were (present) for opening weekend...