Stories from Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Trevor Norris Cadigan, son of Nancy Norris Cadigan (NHS class of 1973) and Jerry Cadigan, passed away on March 11, 2018, in a tragic helicopter accident in New York City. Trevor was the grandson of Mary Adaline Allen, formerly of Nevada. Trevor Cadigan and Brian McDaniel, his childhood friend were capping off a weekend adventure in New York when the accident occurred. They were two of the five killed on the sightseeing helicopter...

Onie LaVena Pilcher, 71, passed away on Monday, March 19, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada following a sudden illness. LaVena was born Oct. 26, 1946, in Blytheville, Ark., to Robert Leonard and Bernease Elizabeth (Roberson) Moser. She married Gerald Dean Pilcher on Nov. 15, 1963, in Gosnell, Ark., and he survives of the home...

Dan Thomson, a third generation veterinarian from Iowa was invited to speak at the Hinkle’s Prime Cut Angus annual educational forum at the Ella Maxwell Center for the Performing Arts at Nevada High School this past Sunday. “The thing I really like about the beef industry, there’s many things, but number one is the people that are associated with it,” Thomson said. ...

The Nevada Lady Tiger track-and-field team opened their season with a second-place finish at Tuesday’s eight-team Neosho Open House track-and-field meet. • Lady Tiger first-place finishes, included: Calli Beshore, 1600-meter run; Sydney Ernsbarger, 400-meter dash; Patience Lockhart, 3200-meter run; and the 4-by-400 meter relay team, comprised of Ernsbarger, Beshore, Zoie Farmer, and Kaeth Zachary...

Nevada High School’s season opening baseball game with Warrensburg, originally scheduled for Monday, but postponed due to rain — has been rescheduled for Thursday. The first pitch is slated for 4:30 p.m. from Lyons Stadium. Nevada then hits the road Friday for a non-conference contest with Carthage, before returning to Lyons Stadium on Monday for a conference clash with St. Michael’s...

In the immortal words of former Boston Celtics head coach Rick Pitino, “Larry Bird is not walking through that door; Kevin McHale is not walking through that door; Robert Parrish is not walking through that door.” The same holds true for Nevada High School golf, with its star-studded cast of Patrick Ferry, John Quitno, and Jacob Hammontree having all departed after graduating last May...