Stories from Wednesday, December 6, 2006

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Judge James Bickel and Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman met with the Vernon County Commissioners Tuesday morning to discuss a request for qualifications the county will be putting out soliciting firms willing to provide planning services for a new jail...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Campus of Crowder College's Phi Theta Kappa organization, a national academic honorary society, is collecting items through Dec. 15, for the local Nevada Head Start program. PTK members are asking area residents to join them in collecting needed items for "The Little Hands of Nevada" effort...

Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY -- Sen. Chris Koster, 31st District, pre-filed legislation Monday to establish the Public Safety Enhancement Fund, which will supplement the salaries of underpaid sheriff's deputies throughout the state of Missouri. More than 700 deputies in the state currently earn substandard wages and have an average annual salary of $20,600...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The city's budget process has been delayed due to a posting error. The Nevada City Council voted Tuesday night 3-0 to remove the public hearing on the 2007 annual budget from the agenda because it was not advertised in the newspaper two weeks before the public hearing as required by the city code. ...

Tiffany Schaumburg and Bryan Boyd, Nevada, and Ricardo, Alejandro, Noah and Freedom, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Athena Hallow Boyd. Athena was born at 7:02 a.m., Nov. 3, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces, and measured 20 inches...

Coral Foulk, Nevada, and Clayton Dowell, Keytesville, Mo., and Blake and Madison are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Kyler James Dowell. Kyler was born at 10:10 a.m., Nov. 24, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces, and measured 19 inches...

Ethel Nadine Hillsman, age 90, the daughter of Charles Lewis and Stella Mae (Greer) Cranfield was born Feb. 12, 1916, in Beaman, Mo., and passed from this life on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan. Ethel attended elementary school in Taberville as well as her freshman and sophomore years, then her junior year in El Dorado Springs before completing her senior year at Schell City High School. ...

Billy Gene Coale, 70, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He was born June 16, 1936, in Nevada, to William B. Coale and Wilma Phipps Coale. He married Betty Ann Fenton on July 15, 1955, in Milo, Mo. She preceded him in death on June 12, 2000...

100 years ago New electric grade good C.C. McFann, the construction electrical engineer, under whose supervisions the new electrical road is to be built, has returned from Richards where he met the citizens of that town and also drove over the proposed route from Nevada to Richards. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- Joseph Fauvergue couldn't miss and the Nevada Tigers couldn't guard him. That turned out to be a lethal combination during the NHS home opener Tuesday at Wynn Gymnasium. Fauvergue made his first seven shots from beyond the arc and scored a game high 23 points as the Carl Junction Bulldogs pulled away from the Tigers, 64-54...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- Amanda Wilson scored all 14 of her points in the first half and Afton Baldwin poured in a career high 26, as the Nevada Lady Tigers trounced the Carl Junction Lady Bulldogs, 74-42, in their home opener Tuesday...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tiger wrestling team posted a 45-30 victory in Clinton over the Cardinals Tuesday. Josh Palmer and Spenser Daniels each won by pin and the Tigers took advantage of two forfeits to topple the hosts. "I knew it was going to be a battle," Nevada head coach Kevin Huck said. "We were able to come away with some very crucial, important wins."...