Stories from Thursday, November 27, 2008

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to a letter published Nov. 20, 2008, in the Nevada Daily Mail, from Dan Gayman. He had stated in his letter that "Vernon County, along with a majority of the rest of the people of Missouri, chose not to participate in the support of a socialist candidate with ties to Marxist economics which calls for the spreading the wealth around, or in the words of Karl Marx, author of the "Communist Manifesto", "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".. ...

The Nevada High School boys' basketball team has been blessed with the age and improved athleticism of five seniors and five juniors, but are substantially short on experience. Three of those upper classmen -- Mark Weatherly, Ethan Beisner and Trevor Foreman -- did not play for Nevada last season. In fact, Nevada has just one returning starter from last year's team in Parker Richardson...