Stories from Saturday, March 15, 2014

The craziness that characterizes the month of March isn't limited to just the opening day of trout fishing at Missouri's four trout parks or the big basketball tournament. Whether you call it a paddlefish, spoonbill or shovelnose cat, the snagging season for this living fossil begins on Saturday. For a growing number of spoonbill snaggers, this is the craziness of March...

Rosalie Dahmer, 90, died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at Mercy Medical Center in Durango, Colo. Rosalie Dahmer, born in Fort Scott, Kan., on April 7, 1923, to Elsie Golden Thompson and John Franklin Kramer. She served in the Women's Army Corps as a clerk typist, and this is where her love of knitting first began. ...

Raymond Eugene Quackenbush, 65, passed away Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Vancouver, Wash. Ray was born May 22, 1948, to Dee O. and Ruth L. (Barlow) Quackenbush, in Joplin, Mo. The family moved to Nevada in 1953. Ray attended Nevada schools. Ray moved to Portland, Ore., and later moved to Vancouver, Wash. He worked as a tree topping foreman, mechanic, and jack of all trades. Ray enjoyed camping, fishing, working on cars, and spending time with family and friends...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council will hold a public hearing and then consider an ordinance changing the zoning on property at 1925 N. Osage from R-1, single family, to C-1 local business, during its meeting Tuesday night at 7 in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash St...

Nevada Daily Mail In an effort to clean up Deerfield, the board of trustees agreed to enact several ordinances, specifically a nuisance/trash ordinance, backed up by legal action and adding billing to taxes. "In the past the ordinances never had any teeth," Deerfield Board of Trustees chairman Terry Forgey said at the board meeting Tuesday. ...

Nevada Police seized several items in what is believed to be illegal drug activity. Acting on a citizen tip, officers searched a house in the 1000 block of East Nicholson during the afternoon hours of March 12. Upon arrival at the scene, the police were met by several individuals who have recently taken up residence in this house...

Suspected methamphetamines were seized from a Nevada home Thursday night after a search warrant was served by the Vernon County Sheriff's Office and the Nevada Police Department. Sheriff Jason Mosher said his office received information through the C-Net drug task force of possible drug activity on Oak Street in Nevada. ...

Editor's note: The following is a compilation of remembrances culled from those sent to the Daily Mail. Nevada Daily Mail "I first became familiar with Rusty Murry, a reporter for the Nevada Daily Mail, on Jan. 1, 2011, when I became the Chief of the Nevada, Mo., Police Department," said Nevada Police Chief W. Graham Burnley...