Stories from Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Bertha Zelinda House Moseley, 104, Walker, Mo., died Feb. 2, 2015. She was born Aug. 11, 1910, on a farm near Topeka, Kan., to George Irvin House and Bertha May Burgess House. She married Warren Morris Moseley on May 24, 1936, in Topeka, Kan. He preceded her in death on April 9, 1987...

Franklin Logan Wisely, 59, of Butler, Mo., went home to be with the Lord on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, after a brief battle with cancer. He was preceded in death by his parents, Logan and Nadine Wisely, of Sheldon; his stepmother, Minnie Wisely, of Lamar, Mo.; and his longtime companion, Tammy Thomson...

Adam and Alisha Pryor, of Nevada, Mo., and older sisters, Addyson and Alyvia, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Axtyn Lee Pryor. Axtyn was born at 8:54 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces, and measured 21 and 1/2 inches...

Nevada Daily Mail The L. F. Richardson Foundation has donated $20,000 to equip the new Nevada Police Station. Foundation trustees presented a check to Nevada Police Chief Graham Burnley Jan. 30, to help defray taxpayer cost in purchasing new office furniture, evidence storage shelves and detective work stations. The Richardson Foundation has supported the city of Nevada in this fashion several times over the decades...

Nevada Daily Mail On Jan. 26 the Nature Conservancy announced that it had expanded the size of the Marmaton River Bottoms Prairie Wetland to 587 acres with the purchase of an additional 80 acres in January. According to a press release from the Nature Conservancy this additional property will help to ensure this prairie system will remain intact...

Nevada Daily Mail CLINTON ---- Led by sharpshooter Brandon Barker's 26 point outing, the Nevada Tigers boys basketball team defeated the Clinton Cardinals 66-59 Tuesday night. With the win, the Tigers improve to 7-11. Also playing on the road, the Nevada Lady Tigers throttled the Clinton Lady Cardinals 56-34. Nevada center Rilie Good scored a game-high 21 points in the winning effort...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council voted 4-0, with Seth Barrett excused, to approve the $33,000 bid from Ferguson Waterworks for four 12-inch water main valves and the installation of the valves without disrupting the water flow to the customers. These four valves will replace two valves, one on a 6-inch line which was discovered to be leaking and in poor condition when it was shut off to allow 3M to work on its private lines. The second valve is on a 12-inch line...

Nevada Daily Mail Slightly more than 2.5 percent of the registered voters in Nevada turned out Tuesday for the Nevada City Council primary to eliminate one of the five candidates who filed for the two open seats. The remaining four candidates will again face the voters in the general election on April 7. The seats up for election are currently held by Seth Barrett, who declined to run for another term, and Jayne Novak...

Nevada Daily Mail In a game that was never really close, the Nevada Tigers freshmen basketball team defeated the Clinton Cardinals 51-35 Monday night at Nevada High School. The victory gives the Tigers a pristine 11-1 record. Nevada was the primary beneficiary of a game that was heavily whistled, as the Tigers went to the charity stripe a whopping 34 times, connecting on 19 of those attempts...

Nevada finished 15th in a large field in the Springfield Invite Swim Meet. Glendale took first, followed by Lafayette and (Columbia) Rock Bridge. Other teams competing were St. Teresa's Academy, (Columbia) Hickman, Poplar Bluff, (Kansas City) Notre Dame de Sion, (Springfield) Kickapoo, Summit Prep and NCA, Ozark, Central, Joplin, Carthage, Pembroke Hill, Cape Central, West Plains, Nixa, Battle, and (Springfield) Hillcrest...

Nevada Daily Mail With his team trailing 36-30 going into the evenings final match, Nevada Tigers 170-pound wrestler Chaden Brandt pinned Carl Junction's Kitch Channel, tying the score 36-36. Nevada won on the second tie-breaker (5-1 via pins). The tiebreaker handed the Tigers a 37-36 victory...

Nevada Daily Mail In a game that was never really close, the Nevada Tigers freshmen basketball team defeated the Clinton Cardinals 51-35 Monday night at Nevada High School. The victory gives the Tigers a pristine 11-1 record. Nevada was the primary beneficiary of a game that was heavily whistled, as the Tigers went to the charity stripe a whopping 34 times, connecting on 19 of those attempts...