Stories from Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Several of Nevada's city team sat down Tuesday for a roundtable discussion concerning the response to storms and what the city, businesses, schools and private individuals can do to be better prepared when a severe storm hits. "The roundtable discussion gave us a chance to go back and evaluate our response to the tornado warnings," Sam Foursha, acting city manager, said. ...

When Nevada voters first approved the city's 1/2-cent transportation sales tax in 1996, many of the city's streets were in poor shape. Since then the city has rebuilt 322 blocks of city streets with money from the sales tax and an additional 43 blocks that were partially paid for with other grant funds...

The Vernon County Chapter of the American Red Cross offers many services to the Nevada community and Vernon County as a whole. The local blood drive, which will be held this year May 4-5, is an annual event that furnishes blood for local and national use...

Many horse owners deworm on a regular basis, however many deworm with the same medication, which allows the parasite to develop a resistance to the particular medication. Therefore, it is important to note that a three or four system rotation is the best way to avoid parasite resistance...

Dear editor: As I read the article regarding consolidating Vernon County's ISPs, I became alarmed at the inaccurate and one-sided perspective. As a Vernon County resident and previous customer of Aicon, it was evident that Shane Balk is uninformed on the service his company provides...

Comments have been made, asking me to write a column about Medicare Plan D. That has been done already three times, or at least about the changes which took place this year in Medicare. There have been more changes in Medicare this year than have ever occurred since the beginning of the program. It has not all been well; still it has not all been bad...

NEVADA, Mo. -- When you look at eight in the scorebook, usually it's a positive thing -- eight runs is highly respectable and eight hits is decent enough. But when that eight sits in the other category, you know it was a long game. The Nevada Tigers (5-6) had that ugly eight under the errors column Tuesday as they took on the Clinton Cardinals (12-4) at Lyons Stadium; and the home team still went into the final inning with a chance to win the game...

The Nevada Tiger junior varsity golfers beat Girard, Kan., in a dual Thursday at Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course. Sam Moore shot 44, Brandon Davis 46, Steph Krohn 50, Matt Mock 52 and Raymond Griffin 61 as they won 192-224. Nevada's B-team shot 207 with Nathan Herren's 45 and Kyle Ledbetter's 49 leading the way in the nine-hole event...

On the weekend of April 1-2, the MoKan Longhorns 13-and-under baseball team won their first tournament of the year at Champion Diamonds in Nevada. The team is in its second year with boys from Nevada, Lamar, Carthage, Fort Scott (Kan.) and Pittsburg (Kan.). ...