Stories from Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Loucinda Maria Grant, age 33 of Nevada, passed away on Saturday, March 4, in Nevada. She was born on Oct. 26, 1983, in Nevada. Loucinda was raised in Nevada and graduated from Nevada High School with the Class of 2000. She lived her whole life in Nevada and worked as a cashier for Ramey's Grocery Store for several years and later for the Nevada Truck Stop. ...

Editor's note: Steve Reed, Cottey College's director of public information, is traveling in Italy with approximately 70 members of the Cottey sophomore class and other faculty, as part of the Cottey International Experience held over the first week of spring break. He, along with his wife, Angie Casavecchia, public administrator for Jasper County, is reporting on the trip. Steve sends his reports as letters to his mother...

ndmeditorial@gmail.com The Nevada City Council moved one step closer to have a prescription drug monitoring program in place when it voted 5-0 to give preliminary approval to a general ordinance that will add Chapter 42, to the city code -- Public Health and Safety -- Mitigation of Drug Addiction...

Nevada Daily Mail A line of thunderstorms moved across the central United States Monday evening prompting numerous severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings across multiple states and here in Vernon County. Local weather spotters were activated with the approach of the storms and at about 9:20 p.m., the National Weather Service issued a radar-indicated tornado warning for Nevada and northeast Vernon County...

Special to the Daily Mail The best way to describe "Urning It," which is directed by Linda Davidson and stars a great and very capable cast (including some new fresh faces to the CCPA stage), is if you take "National Lampoon's Vacation" and add a whole heap of family dysfunction on top...

First-year Nevada High School track-and-field head coach, Kirk Miller, is holding a meet-and-greet Friday at Nevada High School. The event is for parents of high school track-and-field athletes. The festivities will begin at 6 p.m. in the NHS commons area...

Vernon County's four area schools were well represented in the recently released GVVC All-Conference teams. Receiving the most votes were Montrose's Gage Thompson and Bronaugh's Katey Rider. All-Golden Vallley Vernon County conference boys' first-team: Gage Thompson, Sr., Montrose; Tyler Strunk, Sr., Bronaugh; Drew Hon, Jr., Ballard; Kaleb Martin, Sr., Sheldon; Zavery Lamb, Jr., Sheldon; and Clayton Steward, Jr., Montrose...

It has been 18 years since the Nevada High School track-and-field program experienced a change at the top. Enter Kirk Miller, who was handed the keys to the program after longtime coach Robert Watts retired in May. "I am very excited to be selected as the NHS track coach," Miller told the Daily Mail. "I think we have a great new staff that brings a fresh approach to the way things will be done in the future as it relates to Nevada track-and-field."...

A quartet of Nevada Tiger basketball players garnered All-West Central Conference accolades, while Tigers' star forward Clay Gayman was named the WCC Player of the Year. Tigers named to the All-WCC Team, were: Gayman and Nevada senior point guard Matthew Sommer. Gayman led Nevada in scoring and rebounding, averaging 23.6 points and 11.1 rebounds per game, to go along with 3.5 blocked shots a game...