Stories from Thursday, December 13, 2012

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Mayor Brian Leonard announced Wednesday the Nevada City Treasurer Mike Wade has submitted his resignation, effective Dec. 31, to take a full-time position with the city of Joplin. Wade was hired as Nevada's treasurer Jan. 9, 2012...

By Carolyn Gray Thornton Special to the Daily Mail The Community Council on the Performing Arts is presenting the "Messiah" as its Christmas performance, this Friday and Saturday, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, at 2 p.m., at the Fox theater (Dec. 14, 15 and 16)...

By James R. Campbell Nevada Daily Mail JOPLIN -- History was lauded with Wednesday's observance of the conversion of U.S. 71 Highway into Interstate 49 from Kansas City to Pineville. On the 12th day of the 12th month in 2012, a date that will only occur once in the 21st Century, 275 people gathered in a temporary building at the new Joplin East Middle School to hear U.S. ...

Lynn A. Wade/Daily Mail During a reception introducing her to the community on Tuesday, Nevada Public Library Director Jodi Polk shows off the Christmas tree made of books she and others constructed in the library. The books are slated to be sent to Better World Books, an organization that will distribute them to schools or organizations with no budget for books, Polk said...

I am pouring over gift catalogs to choose Christmas gifts for our 13 great-grandchildren. I strive always to have the gifts be somewhat equal in value. But this year I am trying to decide if I could make some of the gifts be for the whole family instead of a gift for each child. It is easier and maybe less expensive, but I worry that it may cause problems at the other end of the giving when the siblings have to share or decide what to play...