The Nevada Neptunes traveled to Monett the last weekend of February to compete in the Heartland Area West Regional Championship meet and came home champions in the small team division. For complete story, see the print or online edition of the Nevada Daily Mail...

Those intrepid explorers, Lewis and Clark, who adventured through the North American interior via the Missouri River, have perhaps never been immortalized as by the Truman Elementary fourth grade in their presentation of “The Adventures of Lewis and Clark” Thursday evening at the Ella Maxwell Performing Arts Center...

Almost on the eve of a groundbreaking ceremony for a new day care center at the YMCA, the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce learned more about plans for the Osage Prairie YMCA in Nevada. For complete story, see the print or online edition of the Nevada Daily Mail...

Nevada High School graduate Halie Ast recently celebrated her 23rd birthday and, thanks to an anonymous bone marrow donor, plans to celebrate many more. What started last autumn with bruising and petechiae (multiple tiny bruising spots), eventually landed Ast in a hospital bed at Kansas University Medical Center with the diagnosis of a rare blood disease: aplastic anemia, a potentially fatal disorder of the bone marrow...

Downtown revitalization progressed this weekend with the demolition of the city-owned building next to the old Bluebird Café on the corner of East Cherry and North Cedar by Show-Me Demolition from Springfield. The area was blocked off and by Monday morning, March 10, the building demo was completed...

A public joint work session between the Vernon County Commissioners and the Nevada City Council convened Thursday evening, March 6, to discuss potential movement on several items For complete story, see the print or online edition of the Nevada Daily Mail...

On Monday evening, March 3, the Nevada Middle School hosted the annual Parent/Community National History Day night to showcase the eighth grade accelerated social studies students’ work in preparation for the upcoming competition. For complete story, see the print or online edition of the Nevada Daily Mail...

In case you thought the once common childhood illness known as measles was eradicated, think again. “As of Friday, Feb. 28, there was a total of 146 confirmed cases associated with the Texas outbreak, and it has migrated into News Mexico as well. Out of those 146, there’s been 20 hospitalized patients, and there’s been one death who was an unvaccinated school age child," Vernon County Health Department Nurse Melissa Keating, RN, said. "Measles is a highly contagious disease.”...

In true what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up fashion, the Nevada Regional Technical Center is hosting eighth grade students from all sending schools to visit the facility and spur their imagination of what they could do in the near future. For complete story, see the print or online edition of the Nevada Daily Mail...

The parking lot was overflowing and the Elks Banquet Hall was packed Friday evening, Feb. 28, for the annual running of the rodents to raise money for the Nevada Children’s Center of Southwest Missouri. For complete story, see the print or online edition of the Nevada Daily Mail...