Stories from Tuesday, September 17, 2013

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor "At this point, we lose early in the season and this is just preparing us for the latter part." The Nevada Lady Tigers softball team and head coach Tammy Holcomb knew coming into the season that there would be a fair amount of bumps in the road and that has been the case, but Holcomb still has kept her head held high through the first 11 games of the year. ...

Tracy Nowski, J.D., is the first speaker in the 2013-14 Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by Cottey College's Institute for Women's Leadership and Social Responsibility. Her address at 7 p.m. today, is titled "The Movement for Women's Leadership: Slaughter, Sandberg, and a New Path Forward?"...

NEVADA, Mo., -- The president designated 18 Missouri counties as primary agricultural disaster areas making certain farmers and other agricultural producers in primary and contiguous counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency...

Three Sheldon students attended the National FBLA Conference in Anaheim, Calif., July 27. Zoey Bray, her mother Teresa, Beth Spencer, Melissa Handle and Christy Lockard, the Sheldon FBLA adviser, left for the Kansas City airport at 3 a.m. The group checked in at the FBLA National Conference and learned when Bray was to compete in Word Processing I. ...

NRMC has been awarded a "Grow Your Own" grant from the Missouri Hospital Association to help recruit and retain the hospital's health care workforce. The grant of $49,000 will be used to develop a "Grow Your Own" Nursing Program to improve patient care and satisfaction by decreasing staff turnover and increasing retention and tenure...

Nevada Daily Mail Chairiman of the Harwood Board of Alderman Billy Begley stepped down and board member Sabrina Shatwell was sworn in as the new chairman at the board's meeting Friday. Kary Middleton was sworn in as Shatwell's replacement at the meeting...

The Nevada Lady Tigers softball team was scheduled to continue a busy week of action Tuesday afternoon, hosting the Lady Bears of Butler High School, but Mother Nature had other plans. Thanks to a series of rain showers Monday night into Tuesday, Nevada High School athletic director John McNeley announced via email early Tuesday afternoon that Tuesday's contest had been called off. No make-up date had been announced as of Tuesday evening...

INDEPENDENCE, Kan. -- The Cottey College Comets volleyball team improved to 1-5 on the season Friday night after a win over the Lady Pirates of Independence Community College. The Comets dropped the first and third sets, but ultimately held on to take the victory in five, by the final scores of 25-17, 25-21, 25-14, 25-22 and 15-13...

The Nevada Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade volleyball teams were both in action Monday evening, hosting Fort Scott Middle School. Fort Scott's seventh-grade volleyball team swept Nevada's seventh graders, winning the A-team match in three sets, 25-20, 25-23 and 25-19, and the B-team match also in three, 25-17, 25-19 and 25-17. Nevada's eighth graders won the A-team match over Fort Scott, 25-19 and 25-21, but Fort Scott prevailed in the B-team match, 25-14 and 25-12...

John Ervin McClain, 90, passed away Sept. 13, 2013, after an illness of a few short months. He was born on March 11, 1923, to parents, John Elmer and Eathel Wilson McClain in Austin, Mo. John was raised on a farm where he was the youngest of five boys who learned to love hunting and fishing at a young age. He attended elementary school with seven other boys in a one-room schoolhouse. In 1942, he graduated from Garden City High School where he earned the nickname "Lightning."...

Jo Ellen Hawks, 51, Hume, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013. She was born on March 12, 1962, at Butler, Mo., the daughter of Floyd and Sally Berry Olive. She graduated from Butler High School and attended Longview Community College. She married Mark Hawks on June 14, 1980, at Butler. She worked as an accountant and was an enrolled agent with the IRS. She worked for 10 years as an accountant at Johnson & Powell, and most recently as senior manager for DSWA CPA's...

Mae L. Watt, 89, of Arcadia, Kan., went to be with the Lord at 11:28 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, at the Fort Scott Manor Nursing Home in Fort Scott, Kan. Mrs. Watt was born June 4, 1924, at Arcadia, Kan., the daughter of Martin Darlington and Gladys Ward Wright...

Jack Fredrick Swopes of Falcon, Mo., passed away Sept. 4, 2013, at the Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mo. He was born July 26, 1937, in Weaubleau, Mo., one of eight children to Melvin and Goldie Norris Swopes. Jack always had a love for animals and the outdoors. ...