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YMCA Holiday Festival set for Saturday
(11/20/09)The Osage Prairie YMCA is preparing for its annual Strong Kids campaign and holiday festival Saturday, Nov. 21 at 5 p.m., in the gymnasium at the facility, 500 W. Highland, Nevada. The gym will be closed Friday and Saturday for the event. Matt Schneringer, YMCA director, said he was excited about the event... 
Public defenders cope with the pressures of too little money, too little time
(11/20/09)Editor's note: This is the second in a series from the Nevada Daily Mail on the state of the Missouri Public Defender system. Last Friday's edition offered a brief overview of the issue: clearly, they're overworked and underpaid. This week's story delves into the impact on the attorneys at work and their ability to fulfill their role in the justice system...
WIC program renews local contract
(11/20/09) The Vernon County Health Department has signed a contract with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to continue providing W.I.C. services in to about 700 clients per month in Vernon County for the federal fiscal year 2010. Under the terms of the contract persons will be served as eligible. Standards of eligibility and participation for W.I.C. are the same for everyone regardless of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex...
Keep holidays happy: Don't drink and drive
(11/20/09) Tipsy, merry, sauced, snockered, jazzed, goosed ... whatever word you use, the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety reminds all motorists that if you drink and drive this holiday season...you lose. "It's not just a slogan, it's a fact," says Leanna Depue, director of the coalition's executive committee. "Whether it is your license, your money or your life --You Drink and Drive. You Lose."...
Gift idea: 'Have a rockin' good Christmas,' DNR official says
(11/20/09) Want to delight your favorite rock enthusiast this Christmas? If so, consider giving a Missouri Rock and Mineral Set. After a 15-year hiatus, these popular, educational rock and mineral sets are once again being offered by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' Division of Geology and Land Survey... 
Black bear sightings in Missouri have increased, experts say
(11/19/09)It was a nasty afternoon; light drizzle and intermittent sleet pelted me occasionally as I sat in the blind. That magical hour just before dark that hunters anticipate was at hand and I knew something was either going to happen soon or not at all. I wasn't prepared for a huffing or woofing sound just a few yards behind me. ...
Deadline for wheat producers to file Prevented Planting claims is Nov. 30
(11/19/09) According to the Vernon County Farm Service Agency, most wheat producers in Vernon County have not been able to plant their intended wheat acreage by the Nov. 15 ending planting date for wheat because of the very wet field conditions that were present Oct. 8 through Nov 15...
Coping with moldy corn
(11/19/09) Farmers can cope with mold-ridden corn in fields and bins in a few ways. "If you still have corn in the field, the most important thing is to harvest as quickly as possible," said Laura Sweets, University of Missouri Extension Commercial Agriculture plant pathologist. ...
Outside firm to look at budget
(11/18/09) Nevada Mayor Mike Hutchens told the Council that the annual Christmas Lighting Ceremony at Radio Springs Park will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 25, this year instead of on Thanksgiving Day as in past years. "Mayor Pro-tem, Jayne Novak, will preside over the lighting ceremony this year," Hutchens said, adding that he would be out of town visiting relatives...
Woman donates $5,000 toward Sheldon water study
(11/18/09) Rickie Garr was one of numerous citizens that showed up at the Sheldon City Council meeting on Thursday, Nov. 12 to discuss an increase in the water rates, and while she was there, she wrote the city a check for $5,000 to help defray the cost of having an engineering study detailing a new water system brought up to date...
Bushwhacker Museum to be open while workers are at facility
(11/18/09) The Bushwhacker Museum will be unofficially open this winter as volunteers do maintenance work at the jail and complete some unfinished exhibits at the museum at 212 W. Walnut St. The Bushwhacker Museum's board of directors voted Tuesday to continue its policy not to post regular winter hours, but to keep the facility open while workers reorganize the artifact storage room and spruce up the jail with some new paint...
Nevada police department conducts seat belt enforcement effort today
(11/18/09) Nearly one in four Missourians still fail to regularly wear their safety belts when driving or riding in a motor vehicle. Among those least likely to buckle up: young males, pickup truck drivers and their passengers, people who live in rural areas and nighttime drivers...
Location changed for Hartzler campaign visit
(11/18/09) The site of a Friday, Nov. 20 visit to Nevada by Vicky Hartzler, candidate for the Fourth District U.S. Congress seat currently held by Ike Skelton, has been changed. The gathering is now slated to take place at Moore-Few Care Center, 901 S. Adams, Nevada, at 4:15 p.m...
Four candidates file for Nevada City Council
(11/18/09) As of 5 p.m., Tuesday, four candidates had filed for the April 6, 2010, election for the Nevada City Council seat currently held by Mayor Mike Hutchens, a three-year term. Debbie Bossaller, 741 E. Maple and Myron R. Damon, 508 Godfrey Lane, Sonya Tumm, W. Atlantic St., and James McKenzie 341 N. Washington, all filed Tuesday afternoon, prior to the 5 p.m. deadline...
Library book sale under way
(11/17/09) The Nevada Public Library's annual book sales is under way now, and will be open during the library's regular hours through 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 21. Hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m... 
Council to consider accounting contracts
(11/17/09)The Nevada City Council will be considering contracts with accounting firms during their regular meeting scheduled for tonight, at 7 o'clock, in the Council Chambers at the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash Street. The Council will be considering the first readings of ordinances to hire DSWA, CPA to conduct the city's 2009 annual audit and to contract with Diehl, Banwart & Bolton, PC as an accounting consultant...
Street projects nearly complete; proposed 2010 list compiled
(11/17/09) Joe Charles, public works director, told the infrastructure committee Thursday night that the 2009 street construction program is almost finished. "Everything is completed but part of South Spring Street and North Tucker Street," he said. "There are a few spots of paving that are not done to our satisfaction that they have to address. They haven't met with me yet about how they'll address them," he said... 
Nevada R-5 Parents As Teachers celebrates 25th birthday
(11/17/09)The Nevada R-5 Parents as Teachers Program is celebrating the 25th Birthday of the Parents as Teachers Program in the state of Missouri during the month of November. The Nevada R-5 Parents as Teachers Program recognized this milestone by receiving a Proclamation from the Nevada City Council on Nov. ... 
Milo author pens novel
(11/17/09)"The Dream Time: The Open Portal" by Neeta Leo is making its debut. The novel is based on the premise that an ancient prophecy and a proud people on a collision course with the future. A young boy is chosen and leaves a legacy that turns to evil. A thousand years later a baby is born that will stop that evil and save all mankind... 
Hartzler to tour Fourth District in major announcement sweep
(11/17/09)Declaring that this campaign is about bringing jobs back to our communities, jump-starting the economy, and fixing a reckless, deficit-spending Congress, Vicky Hartzler, candidate for Missouri's Fourth congressional district, announced today a district-wide tour on Nov. 20-21, making official her candidacy... |
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