Stories from Friday, March 30, 2012

The Nevada High School boys tennis team hosted Carl Junction on Thursday at the NHS tennis courts. It was the team's third dual of the week. Thursday's full results were unavailable to the Daily-Mail at our press time Thursday night. The results will be printed when they are received...

By Jason Peake Daily Mail Sports Editor The familiar "ping" has been replaced with more of a "thud." A new national high school baseball rule change for 2012 has resulted in differently constructed bats. Called "BBCOR," the new bats act and sound more like traditional wood bats...

Nevada can't hold 8-run lead, late rally falls just short

Nevada Daily Mail CARTHAGE, Mo. -- The Nevada High School track team competed at Carthage on Thursday. For the boys team, Morgan Hold took second place in the pole vault by clearing 12'6. As far as the NHS girls, Ashley Shumaker took third in the high jump by clearing five feet even...

Connie J. Wooldridge, 59, Nevada, passed away at her home, following a lengthy illness, Wednesday, March 28, 2012. She was born July 11, 1952, in Nevada, to George F. Kuhlman and Peggy R. Starr Kuhlman. She married Dale Wooldridge on June 22, 1984, in Moundville, Mo., and he survives of the home...

Don Mills has been appointed as successor trustee of the Finis M. Moss Charitable Trust by Bryan Breckenridge and Larry Forkner, current co-trustees. Mills succeeds Lee Gilbert, whose unexpected death created a vacancy on the board. Breckenridge and Forkner selected Mills from a pool of qualified candidates because of his professional expertise in farming and finance and his long record of success in endeavors he undertakes. ...

Nevada Regional Medical Center will host the eighth Annual Community Health Fair Saturday, April 14, from 8 a.m. to noon, at the Osage Prairie YMCA, 500 W. Highland, Nevada. Free health screenings will be available from a variety of healthcare professionals as well as educational information on numerous health topics. Some of the screenings available include: blood sugar, cholesterol (2-hour fast required), bone density, blood pressure, hearing, eye exams, and much more...

Nevada Police Officer John Foster (standing) presents information on keeping one's property and person safe to the monthly meeting of the Vernon County office of the American Red Cross volunteers. Foster spent about 30 minutes at the Pine Street Baptist Church on Wednesday, March 27, and informed more than a dozen volunteers about ways to make their, homes, automobiles and property harder for criminals to get. ...

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series about Vernon County pork producer Everett Forkner. Leaders of industry don't always dress in a three-piece suit and loafers; they sometimes wear faded blue jeans and work boots. That's the case with Everett Forkner of Richards. Forkner is a lifelong resident of rural Vernon County and president of the National Pork Board...

A total of 302 people converged on the Nevada Head Start at 1025 E. Wooter in Nevada on Thursday to make an attempt at a new world record of the most people singing the "Alphabet Song." People began to arrive at 5 p.m., and the school staff began the process of documenting everyone who entered -- participants' time qualifies as an "in-kind donation" that benefits the school. ...

Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- Nevada's number-one doubles team of Andrew Arneson and Colton Short were the lone winners for the Tigers during Thursday's tennis dual against Carl Junction. Carl Junction won the dual 8-1. Arneson and Short beat CJ's Ben Coltharp and Andrew Gloshen 8-5 in doubles action. The Bulldogs swept all the other matches...