Stories from Friday, January 16, 2015

The Nevada Tigers eighth-grade A-team dealt Fort Scott Middle School a 32-23 loss, Tuesday night in Fort Scott. The Tigers are now 2-0. The NMS eighth-grade B-team also prevailed at Fort Scott, picking up a 36-30 win, to move to 1-1.

Bronaugh's girls stayed alive in the 59th Annual Golden City Basketball Tournament, taking a 58-48 victory over Everton Wednesday afternoon. The Wildcats will now face Dadeville, a 54-51 victor over Golden City in the other Wednesday consolation game...

"It's under the seat of the car, and I have to have AAA come and jump start me".... those were the exact words my friend spoke to me in one of our recent catching up calls. The "It," referred to in this title sentence, was their car battery. My mind flashed a simple question immediately: Why in the world would anyone ever want to put a car battery, under the seat?...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers varsity wrestling team was outscored by Carthage 57-18, Thursday night at home. Nevada wrestling coach Devon White said he was happy with the way his squad battled. "I thought we wrestled really well," he said. "The score doesn't show it. And even though we lost 57-18, if you came and watched the duel, you saw a lot of good wrestling and know how close it really was...

I enjoy sharing memories from my childhood. You readers have probably already realized that. I enjoy telling about some incident, then realize that most of my readers weren't even born yet. I had that experience in reverse once when I was visiting with a wonderful older lady who sang in the choir at the Mt. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Sheldon R-8 High School now offers Dave Ramsey's "Foundations in Personal Finance," a curriculum for teaching financial literacy to students. Ramsey tailors the lessons to students by using fun, easy to understand methods and interactive learning. The class is taught on DVD by Ramsey and his daughter, Rachel Cruze...

Nevada Daily Mail After rejecting bids last week from two companies for trash hauling for Vernon County, the county commission again considered bids Tuesday for that service. In December, the Vernon County Commission accepted bids from businesses for services such as printing, rock hauling and concrete and decided which companies they would use through 2015, based on those bids...

Nevada Daily Mail After weeks of rarely seeing the large oak conference table in the Vernon County Commission's office because of the papers making up the 2015 Vernon County budget on it, the commission completed its work on the budget and made it available for the residents to examine Thursday...

Nevada Daily Mail Four Nevada high school students continued their recent streak of Future Farmers of America successes with a win at the national level at Colorado State University in Denver, Colo., at the 95th Annual Western National Roundup, Jan. 8-11...

G.F. "Fred" Layher, 90, Walker, Mo., passed from this life on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, at the Missouri Veterans Home, in Mt. Vernon, Mo., following a lengthy illness. Fred was born on Aug. 28, 1924, in Rockville, Mo., to Gottlob Fredrick Layher and Christine (Moondinger) Layher. He was united in marriage to Erma Layher on Sept. 15, 1945, in Fort Scott, Kan., and she preceded him in death on Aug. 29, 2013...

Jeanette Elvira Bailey, 79, Nevada, Mo., passed away from this life on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada, following a brief illness. Jeanette was born March 18, 1935, in North Kansas City, Mo., to Martin D. Allison and Velma Callen Allison. She was united in marriage to Kenneth Welcome Bailey on May 14, 1954...

Stephanie Stone and Kendal Masters are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth KayAnn Masters. Elizabeth was born at 9:42 a.m., Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Maternal grandparents are Veda Stone and Shannon Stone. Paternal grandparents are Linda Daniels and Billy Masters...

A late 8-0 run enabled the Cottey Comets to defeat the Wentworth Military Academy Red Dragons 64-53, Wednesday night at Hinkhouse Center. The victory improves the Comets record to 8-4. Wentworth jumped out to a 9-3 lead, before Cottey answered with an 8-1 run to take an 11-10 lead with 9:35 remaining in the first half...