Stories from Thursday, February 21, 2008

All classes in the Nevada R-5 schools are cancelled for Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008. Classes at Crowder College campus in Nevada are cancelled.

Nevada Daily Mail The National Weather Service reports that periods of freezing rain and sleet will occur area wide as a series of upper level disturbances move through the region, today. Sleet accumulations of a half inch to one and a half inches along with ice accumulations between one third and one half of an inch will be possible. isolated embedded thunderstorms will result in locally higher amounts of ice and sleet...

Nevada Daily Mail Mapping of all of Vernon County's roads is completed and that information is now available for the Nevada Police Department dispatchers when they send emergency services personnel on calls anywhere in the county. In addition to developing new Vernon County road maps, Tim Bourassa, Vernon County's Geographic Information System technician, told members of the Vernon County Local Emergency Planning Committee Wednesday that he has also generated other layers of data that can be overlaid on the road system to show a variety of useful information.. ...

Can you get shocked while hanging from an electric wire if you are not touching the ground? Nevada seventh grader Kyle Westover knows since he researched the question and built a science fair project to show the results. Wednesday afternoon, Westover and 155 other Nevada Middle School seventh and eighth grade students set up their displays for the annual Nevada Middle School Science Fair. ...

The year when the British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was among the most popular in the world is, of course, long gone, his name now used only to make a silly joke (Jokester One: "Do you like Kipling?" Jokester Two: "I don't know; I've never kippled."). So, it's nice to see the CCPA, Nevada Regional Medical Center, and Hoffman Financial Resources banding together to present Joseph Robinette's "The Jungle Book," based on Kipling's Mowgli Stories...

A group of talented young people were gathered together recently in Nevada. I was waiting for our great grandchild to be ready to come home so I passed the time by watching the group. They were both boys and girls and their ages ranged from middle school to high school ages. ...

It's amazing, the many men, average men, tried and proved in the crucible that was 1860s Vernon County. Ordinary men who turned out extraordinary, as it were. One who only lately came to our notice makes a threesome: three men all once known for their doings in the Civil War's aftermath, all now sadly forgotten...

Early in the morning on Valentine's Day, I was fixing breakfast and shaping the biscuits like hearts when my husband went slipping out of the house. I suspected he was going to the shop after my valentine, but the look on his face when he returned was priceless. He handed me what was left of a box of Russell Stover's and said, "I tried."...

Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey Comets, 15-4 for the season, will be hosting the winless St. Louis Community College-Florissant Magic this Saturday at 2 p.m. in Hinkhouse Gymnasium for the first round game of the NJCAA Division II, Region XVI tournament...

Nevada Daily Mail The Hume Hornets extended their season record to 19-4 for the season and 6-0 in GVVC play when they easily beat Ballard 63-30 Monday night in Hume. Three of Hume's players scored in double figures with Ryan Austin leading their scoring with 15 points and eight steals and five assists, followed by Cameron Hinton and Clinton Irwin with 14 points each, Zach Austin with nine points, including three treys, Cody Franklin with seven points and Andy Yarick and Eric Pruitt with two points each.. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Special Olympics Basketball Invitational will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Nevada Middle School, 900 N. Olive St., with opening ceremonies at 9:45 a.m. and competition starting at 10 a.m. The closing ceremonies will be at 3 p.m...

Wednesday afternoon Nevada High School senior Lindsey Webb signed a letter of intent to play volleyball for the Cottey Comets this fall. Front row from left: Susan Webb, Lindsey Webb and Jack Webb. Back row from left: Jennifer Webb, Marla Kannady Forman, Cottey volleyball coach, Becky Lowrey, NHS assistant volleyball coach and Kevin McKinley, NHS athletic director...