Stories from Friday, May 14, 2004

Special to the Daily Mail The Nevada Middle School recently held it's annual invitational track meet with seventh and eighth grade teams from Appleton City, Bronaugh, Carthage, El Dorado Springs and Nevada. Team Results Seventh-grade boys: 1, Carthage, 151...

By Scott Moyers Nevada Daily Mail A bolt of lightning seen throughout Nevada amid heavy thunderstorms Thursday has caused severe damage to an area home, leaving the family unharmed but with a huge mess to clean up. "I've never seen one with quite that much damage," said fire Capt. Robert Benn, who was the officer in charge of the scene...

By Scott Moyers Nevada Daily Mail A multimillion-dollar upscale housing development in northwest Nevada is prepared to move forward after developers have corrected an oversight on the plat application. At Tuesday night's Nevada Planning Commission, the matter was postponed because the project developers -- Terry Hoeper and Roger Irvin -- failed to sign the plat as a corporation. They had signed it individually, but a corporate signature is also required...

By Scott Moyers Nevada Daily Mail hey knew it was big. They just didn't know how big. When the sinus polyp that was making Lewayne McGuire's life a living hell since January was removed earlier this week at Nevada Regional Medical Center, there was a collective gasp in the surgery room at the pure size of it...

Edith Mae Rider 72,, formerly of Nevada, died on Wednesday, May 12, 2004, at Macon Healthcare in Macon, Mo., following a lengthy illness. She was born on Sep. 1, 1931, in Lewistown, Mo., to Ralph Edward Fink and Mabel Mae Benner Fink. She married Lovell Glen Rider in June 1960 in Girard, Kan., and he preceded her in death on Jan. 17, 1997...

Paul F. Jenner, 70, St. Joseph, Mo., died Friday, April 30, 2004, at a Kansas City hospital. He was born on July 17, 1933, in Sibley, Iowa. He was a retired associate professor at Missouri Western State College. He served in the U.S. Army. He was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church; the Optimist Club; Genealogy Club; and was an active volunteer with Camp Hope, the library and AARP Scores...

Cleo Ione Barrett, 81, Nevada, passed away Wednesday, May 12, 2004, at St. John's Regional Medical Center, Joplin, following a brief illness. She was born Oct. 31, 1922, in Nevada, to Floyd Walter Smith and Inez Margaret Jones. Cleo was born and raised in Nevada, and graduated from Nevada High School in 1940. ...