Stories from Thursday, August 11, 2011

Misty Dawn (Gilmore) Vann, 44, of Clinton, Mo., the daughter of George Andrew and Mary Lucille (Wells) Gilmore was born Dec. 8, 1966, in Joplin, Mo., and died on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, from injuries she received in a motor vehicle accident earlier that day...

Everett J. "Buck" Bright, 88, Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, at his home in Nevada, following a short illness. He was born Dec. 31, 1922, in Milo, Mo., to John William Bright and Vedder Bishop Bright. He married Lois O. Nichols on June 1, 1947, in Milo. She preceded him in death on Aug. 11, 2002...

Charles L. "Chick" Shupe, 80, Nevada, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, at Barone Alzheimer's Care Center, Nevada. He was born on June 21, 1931, in Buckner, Mo., to Paul S. Shupe and Fern Downs Shupe. He married Wilma Lee Faubion on Dec. 16, 1950, in Lamar, Mo., and she survives of the home...

The Nevada Griffons kept their championship bid in play Wednesday, defeating the Liberal, Kan., BeeJays 4-2 in the NBC World Series tournament at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in Wichita, Kan. The BeeJays are defending NBC World Series champions and were frequent foes of the Griffons in the Jayhawk League before the Griffons made the move the MINK League...

Registration is currently under way for a Nevada Middle School Volleyball Skills Clinic, open to any fifth- through sixth-grade girl interested in volleyball and will be conducted next week, with the following schedule: Monday, Aug. 15: 3-4 p.m. (shortened session due to the NMS Open House)...

Recommendations presented for teams tracticing for fall sports.

With new offerings in place, local campus prepares for record fall 2011 enrollment.

The Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists awarded accreditation to Sheldon Family Medical Clinic Laboratory in Sheldon, Mo., based on the results of a recent onsite inspection. The laboratory's director, Katie Dennis, M.D., was advised of this national recognition and congratulated for the excellence of the services being provided. Sheldon Family Medical Clinic is one of more than 7,000 CAP-accredited laboratories worldwide...

Trann Devore, Nancy Hutson and Barney of the Cycle Connection in Joplin show new 2012 Harley-Davidsons outside Buzz's BBQ Tuesday. They were selling "Heart of America Still Lives" T-shirts and raising money for the Joplin chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association...

Jim Dilly of Nevada was the lone graduate in Tuesday's Vernon County Adult Recovery Court Graduation in Circuit Court. With Dilly is his 10-year-old daughter Madison, who led the "Pledge of Allegiance" during the event, the 24th graduation ceremony held in the program's history...

The 2011 transportation sales tax street construction projects are nearly finished and members of the city's infrastructure board, which oversees the projects done with the sales tax, are not pleased with at least some of the final results. "I'm not very proud of what they left us," Jack Bastow, infrastructure committee chairman, said during a committee meeting Monday night referring to the street paving done by APAC, which got the 2011 paving contract...