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Dr. Charles C. Nash (Obituary ~ 05/20/17)
Dr. Charles C. Nash (a.k.a. “Chuck”, “Dr. Chuckie”, “Buzz” and “Dad”), teacher, writer, avid bibliophile and lover of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, had a wonderful, funny sense of humor and an often quirky way of seeing the world. He loved teaching his students at Cottey College, practical jokes, reading The New Yorker magazine cover to cover, afternoons spent voraciously reading Cheever and Updike, egg foo yung, deviled eggs, Necco wafers, binge watching episodes of Law and Order, singing in the Methodist Church and Nevada Community choirs, blasting classical music and Hootie and the Blowfish at full volume in his study and renovating fixer-upper houses in his adopted town of Nevada.. ... -
Ethan Jordan Barnes (Obituary ~ 05/20/17)
Ethan Jordan Barnes, 19, Nevada, passed away on Monday, May 15, at his home in Nevada. Ethan was born Oct. 22, 1997, in Nevada, to Thomas Cody Barnes and Stacey Marie Bonine Wolf. Ethan grew up in Nevada and graduated from Nevada High School in 2016. ... -
The cyber world of summer vacation
(Column ~ 05/20/17)
This month, schools will be letting out for the summer and for most kids, the fun begins. Swimming, riding bikes, and all the other activities that come with a few months of freedom from school. I have mentioned before the increased danger of online perpetrators for children. ...
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May is National Water Safety Month
(Column ~ 05/20/17)
Hello neighbors. During the warmer days in spring and summer, many people like to take trips to the local lakes and rivers. People with boats like to go either sailing or motor boating, others like slow moving boats for fishing and others like boats that scarcely move at all for spending a weekend on rather like a camper on the water...
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Legislators wrap up productive 2017 session
(Column ~ 05/20/17)
Missouri’s 126th District JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The Missouri House of Representatives wrapped up a productive legislative session May 13. While lawmakers sent a lower number of bills than normal to the governor, those that did make it included many of the policy priorities that were laid out by the House Speaker during his opening day address. ...
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Nevada woman sentenced for trading “Food Stamps” for meth, cash
(Local News ~ 05/20/17)
Nevada Daily Mail On Tuesday, May 16, Julie M. Drake, 48, of Nevada, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool, in Springfield, to nine years in federal prison without parole for her role in a conspiracy to exchange “food stamps” for methamphetamine or cash...
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‘Fight Night’ lawsuit amended
(Local News ~ 05/20/17)
jbrann.ndm@gmail.com On Tuesday afternoon, attorney Dustin W. Dunfield amended the lawsuit he filed in the Vernon County Circuit Court, on behalf of Alexander Trexel, a local inmate in the Vernon County Jail. The charges and judgments sought were not changed and so Trexel still claims “that on no less than nine (9) occasions he has been forced to take part in what is being called ‘Fight Night’ by inmates and staff at the Vernon County, Missouri Jail.”...
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Comets compete at nationals
(College Sports ~ 05/20/17)
A pair of Cottey Comets’ track athletes were in action Friday at the NJCAA Nationals at Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College. Oluwabukola Pereira finished fourth in her 1,500 meter heat and will compete in the finals, slated for this afternoon. Pereira was only two second shy of the school record, which she already owns...
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Middle school hoops camp just around the corner
(High School Sports ~ 05/20/17)
The Nevada Lady Tigers’ basketball camp for seventh and eighth-graders is slated for Monday, June 5 through June 7 at Wynn Gymnasium located inside Nevada High School. The three-day camp will be conducted by Lady Tigers’ head varsity basketball coach Brent Bartlett, along with his staff and current players...
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Tigers’ hoops camp on tap this week
(High School Sports ~ 05/20/17)
The Nevada Tigers’ youth basketball camp for grades third through sixth is slated for May 22-26 at Nevada High School’s Wynn Gymnasium. The week-long camp will run from 12-1:45 p.m. for third and fourth-graders and 2-3:45 for fifth and sixth-graders. (Note: This camp is for students entering grades third through sixth for the 2017-18 school year)...
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Missouri crappie anglers have reason to smile (Outdoors ~ 05/20/17)
In spite of the high and dingy water at Caplinger Mills bridge, anglers are catching crappie and catfish. “This is my favorite place to camp and fish, it’s like my second home,” said Fair Grove angler David Hupman. “I fish for whatever hits my hook, but I mainly like to catch crappie and walleye.”... -
Record Breakers: Middle schoolers rewrite NMS record book (High School Sports ~ 05/20/17)
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Nevada senior student-athletes honored (High School Sports ~ 05/20/17)
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Johnmeyer joins Graceland University (High School Sports ~ 05/20/17)
Nevada High School volleyball standout Kaitlynn Johnmeyer will be taking her talents to Graceland University, as the senior student-athlete signed a national letter-of-intent May 8 at the NHS Media Center. Graceland University, located in Lamoni, Iowa, is affiliated with the Heart of America Conference and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The Heart of America Conference is comprised of 14 teams, with campuses located in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska...