Stories from Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Robert "Bob" Mabry, 86, Nevada, passed away on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. He was born in Nevada, Mo., on July 3, 1926, to Stanton H. Mabry and Mamie Trillion Keyser Mabry. Bob was raised in Nevada and graduated from Nevada High School in 1941. He served in the U.S. Army from 1950-'52. Following the service, Bob attended and graduated from Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Mo., in 1960. He was a lifelong resident of Nevada...

Nevada Daily Mail PLEASANT HILL, Mo. -- One individual championship and two runner-up finishes led the Nevada Tigers wrestling team to a ninth-place finish as a team in the Steve Leslie Invitational Friday and Saturday at Pleasant Hill High School. Smithville won the team title with 664 points and Lee's Summit West was second with 630. The Tigers finished half a point ahead of 10th-place Carl Junction with 364.5 points...

Nevada Daily Mail CARTHAGE, Mo. -- Senior Silas Smith scored a career-high 36 points to lead the Nevada Tigers to a 55-43 win over Monett Saturday afternoon in the seventh-place game of the 66th annual Carthage Invitational Tournament at Carthage High School...

Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey College Comets ended the home portion of the first-semester basketball schedule with a low-scoring victory over Southwest Iowa Community College Saturday, 46-36. The game was a very physical, sometimes sluggish battle with a lot of banging about in the lane. Freshman Kennadi Howard suffered a concussion on a drive to the basket in the second half and didn't return to the game...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers football team put the wraps on a successful season during its postseason awards banquet Sunday evening at the Nevada Elks Lodge Bingo Hall. Head coach Wes Beachler says several players earned all-district, all-region and all-state honors. The Class 4 All Southwest Missouri Football Coaches Association's first team included offensive and defensive lineman Sam Ellifrits...

Nevada Daily Mail WALKER, Mo. -- On Thursday, Nov. 29, the NEVC Lady Knights hosted the Lady Bulldogs of Ballard High School. The Lady Knights won the contest by a final score of 54-40. Leading the way for the Lady Knights was Camille Buttorf with 19 points, followed by Erin Kitsmiller with 11 and Payton Hays with nine...

Nevada Daily Mail SENECA, Mo. -- The Nevada Middle School wrestling squad headed back out on the road Saturday and came back from Seneca Middle School with several strong showings. Hunter Balk took second in the 95-pound A bracket, while Trevor Olson echoed that success with his second-place finish in the 120-pound B bracket. Cameron Dias finished second in the 120-pound A bracket and Jacob Johnson brough home Nevada's other second-place finish in the 180-pound A bracket...

Nevada Daily Mail BRONAUGH, Mo. --The Bronaugh Wildcats and Lady Wildcats hosted Northeast Arma Friday night in the Bronaugh High School gymnasium and came home with far less than favorable results. In the girls' game, Northeast Arma held off Bronaugh in a low-scoring affair, ultimately taking the victory by the final score of 43-33. The boys' game was a much closer contest and though it needed overtime to pull it off, Northeast Arma ultimately completed the sweep with a 72-65 victory...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail CARL JUNCTION, Mo. -- "It's hard to lose that way." That very well might be the understatement of the year from Nevada Lady Tigers head basketball coach Brent Bartlett. Bartlett's Lady Tigers went into the third-place game of the Carl Junction Invitational tournament Saturday afternoon with high hopes of rebounding from a 67-64 loss at the hands of Carthage in pool play Friday, but Carl Junction's Katie Skaggs had other ideas as she put up a layup that just beat the buzzer to lift the Lady Bulldogs to victory by a final score of 46-45.. ...

MoDOT/Southwest Road Report for Tuesday, Dec. 4 (Rain will postpone the scheduled work) Barry County Route Z: ROAD CLOSED between Farm Roads 1120 and 1130 east of Monett. Installing drain pipes. Work hours: 8 a.m to 6 p.m. Route 39 Table Rock Lake Bridge Deck Replacement at Shell Knob: (Completion: May 2013)...

By Jerry Pfeifer and Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail Helen White of Nevada grew up in Rich Hill, and those rural Missouri roots were likely the reason White chose nursing as a career which led her to the Fort Scott Mercy School of Nursing and into the U.S. Army student nursing program...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada voters will go to the polls today to choose which of two candidates, Mike Smith or Lance Christie, will serve on the Nevada City Council, in the seat vacated by Sherry Steward, who resigned because she moved out of the city limits earlier this year...

By James R. Campbell Nevada Daily Mail Have you ever watched a freight train come rumbling by and wondered what it's like to work for a railroad company? Edwin Tourtillot, of Nevada, Daniel Nichols, of Moundville, and Hugh Logan, of Sheldon, can tell you just about everything there is to know because they have tons of experience as switchmen, brakemen, conductors and engineers...

Nevada Daily Mail editor Nevada has lost a wonderful man. A fixture, really -- someone that everyone knew, in one way or another. Bob Mabry was known to lots of local people as the man on the bicycle. He'd always nod and say hello to anyone who greeted him. ...