Stories from Wednesday, March 7, 2007

By Crystal D. Hancock Nevada Daily Mail The Cat-in-the-Hat visited Bronaugh! In reality, author Mel Boring, a 67-year-old non-fiction writer of books for children traveled nearly 2,000 miles from his home in Orcas Island, Wash., to Bronaugh to speak to students of all ages Tuesday. Boring brought presentations to students from preschool to 12th grade in hopes of educating them about the importance of non-fiction writing and coaching them on how they can become authors as well...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The results were tallied in short order for the Nevada City Council primary election held on Tuesday. Fewer than 700 people voted in the election, held to narrow a total of seven candidates to four, two for a three-year seat, and two for a one-year, unexpired term left vacant by Dick Meyers, who resigned in December, citing personal and professional reasons...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Library Board has nine members, currently all Nevada residents. However, the library board wants to change that, to allow them to have two board members who do not live inside the city limits. On Tuesday the Nevada City Council voted 3-0 to pass on first reading a general ordinance amending Section 2-57 of the city code to make this change. Councilman Bill Gillette was excused...

Cottey students are in Paris, France, on an annual trip filled with required educational modules and with opportunities for soaking up the local culture as well. This is the second of a series of reports on the experience from Cottey College's public information director Steve Reed, one of the chaperones for the trip...

By Crystal D. Hancock Nevada Daily Mail Working conditions for the employees of the Vernon County Sheriff's Department are deteriorating along with the bricks and mortar of the jail, according to Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman. The deputies are hired and given a uniform and a badge. ...

John Claud Douglas, age 68, of Nevada, Mo., passed away Monday, March 5, 2007, after a battle with lung cancer. He was born April 13, 1938, in Mosby, Mo., the son of Ivan McDonald Douglas and Amy Elizabeth (Phipps) Douglas. He married Mary Cooper Rhodes on July 28, 1994, in Nevada, and she survives...

It was large. It was fun. The food was great. Special recognition was presented to the stars. It was a good place to be. It was the recently held 2006 Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet. Nearly 300 people were in attendance at the event, making it the biggest yet. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- Coming out of the gates strong proved huge for the Wheatland Mules Tuesday, as they held off the Hume Hornets in Class 1 sectional action at Wynn Gymnasium, 70-59. Runs to start the first and third periods produced a 25-point swing as the Mules built a 28-point lead midway through the third, then withstood a furious Hume rally...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail With hopes of keeping the Southwest Conference alive, Nevada athletic director Kevin McKinley proposed a football-only merger with the schools of the Central Ozark Conference during a meeting of athletic directors in Willard Wednesday...