Stories from Thursday, May 3, 2012

Season ends at sectional for rest of golf team

The Nevada Police Department reports that a team of officers has been taking steps to round up and arrest subjects with active warrants. Officers have executed several warrants by arresting eight individual fugitives in three days time. Officers say that this effort will continue...

The Community Council for the Performing Arts will present a Gospel Showcase this week on Thursday, May 3, Friday, May 4, and Sunday, May 6. The show is sponsored, in part, by the Nevada Daily Mail and Herald-Tribune along with the Pine Street Baptist and Pentecostal Assembly churches of Nevada. Under the direction of Allison Fast, the show features church choirs, soloists, ensembles and instrumentalists all expressing the joy of their faith through music...

After having the community center closed for a year for renovations, it has taken a while for people to get back to using it. "Participation has increased," Dana Redburn, parks and recreation director, said. "Lots of kids are coming in to play basketball," she said...

Vernon County Northern Commissioner Neal Gerster signs the official document proclaiming Thursday, May 3, as a "National Day of Prayer" after the official reading by Southern Commissioner Kennon Shaw. The National Day of Prayer in Nevada will begin with a breakfast hosted by the First Christian Church of Nevada, which is located at the corner of Austin Boulevard and Washington Street. ...

Volunteers wearing safety vests and carrying trash bags, both provided by the Missouri Department of Transportation, pick up trash near East Austin Boulevard and the on-ramp to U.S. Highway 71 north on Saturday, April 28. The Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce sponsored "Operation Clean Sweep" targeted several areas of town and about three dozen bags of trash were picked up by more than two dozen volunteers participating, according to organizer Lynda Jones. ...

Deca students from the Nevada Regional Technical Center's marketing and entreprenurial classes stand with the first place trophy and ribbons they won while participating in the International Career Development Confernce in Salt lake City, Utah, during the last week. ...