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For the first time in more than two decades, the roar of airplanes woke Nevada up for an airshow Saturday morning. “It was huge,” Sharon Kegler said. Kegler, the human resources director for Nevada, said the airshow went better than anticipated. The airshow opened with John Hall from Sky Dive Kansas City parachuting into the airport carrying a large US flag while the National Anthem played...

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Wednesday afternoon saw the Vernon County Commission, members of the Community Association of Regional Enterprises Inc. and Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission gather as representatives of 3M Nevada presented a second grant in support of the Katy Allen Lake project currently being developed by the county commission...

For the first time in more than 20 years, Nevada will host an airshow at the Municipal Airport Saturday, Sept. 16. “Tourism has sponsored the bike race for the last couple years,” said Sharon Kegler who is co-coordinating the event with Mark Mitchell. “This year Mark … wanted to do something that could benefit more of the community, bring more of the community out and involve them.”...

NASCAR driver and team owner Jennifer Jo Cobb spoke at a girls-only assembly at Nevada Middle School on Thursday afternoon. “Girl power is not quiet,” Cobb said. “Girl power deserves a little hooting and hollering so let’s hear it for girl power.” The students responded with a round of cheers and clapping...

In a ceremony which began at Earp Park and finished at Spring Street Park Thursday afternoon the Nevada Lions Club gifted the city with a lion-themed bench and drinking water fountain. The project was in recognition of the Lions Club 100 year anniversary...

“We decided at nine o’clock this morning after watching everything on the news and reading what people are posting … We’re just going to help.” Lincoln Hughes said. Hughes, his family, and others were busily sorting donations in front of Wal Mart on Friday afternoon before packing them onto one of Hughes Farm’s trucks bound for Port Neches, Texas...

Nevada has been given the opportunity to welcome a new kind of medical professional this year. Missouri legislators voted to offer a license for Assistant Physicians in 2014 and began offering the licenses in 2017 to graduates of medical schools who have not had their residency training...

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. — John Hope Franklin Tracee Hansen embarked on just such an adventure in 1981 when she left her native New Zealand and came to Nevada — an exchange student through American Field Scholarships...

By Johannes Brann jbrann.ndm@gmail.com The Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation announced its 2017 list of historic “Places in Peril” on Aug. 25. Included among the 13 is a building which was Nevada’s old post office for over 50 years and later the sheriff’s office and jail for more than 45 years...

First responders converged on the Northeast Vernon County High School in Walker on Monday afternoon for Vernon County’s annual Emergency Preparedness Exercise. “This is probably one of the better drills as far as incident command,” Vernon County Emergency Management Director Dennis Kimrey said. “I was happy to see we had a command post — you could see it was a command post. We had EMS and fire at the command post.”...

While some visits by area political leaders are billed as conversations, they often end up being monologues or at worse, lectures to the audience. However, the Monday noontime “Conversations with Vicky” lived up to its billing. Held in the meeting room of Healthy Nevada, Hartzler spent about 40 minutes reviewing topics ranging from legislation adopted by the U.S. ...

Most of us go about our day paying little attention to the world around us. Should we stop and look around, we just might find we have been invaded — not by some foreign army but rather an army of small, painted rocks. “We participated when Belles and Beaus started it,” Carla Raney said. ...

There are a lot of things that need to be taken care of in Nevada and Vernon County and most of the time all you hear are complaints about them, with no real solution offered. Lynda Jones is planning a project to address at least some of these issues...

Dr. Jason Meisenheimer, left, presents the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award to Mary L. “Pete” and Thomas Schmidt, naming them the Nevada Elks Lodge’s inaugural Community Champion at a meeting at the lodge’s Bingo Hall Tuesday. In order to qualify for the Lifetime Achievement Award, volunteers must complete more than 4,000 hours of work in their lifetime...

Sooner or later, nearly all of the prisoners in the Vernon County Jail will be released into society. To be successful on the outside, they will need a number of so-called soft skills or work-readiness training which include such things as how to interview, showing up for work, being on time and getting along with difficult people, whether they are supervisors, co-workers or customers...