Stories from Friday, February 1, 2013

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School freshman boys' basketball squad got back into action Tuesday night against the Cardinals of Webb City and despite the fact that the end result didn't go their way, head coach Kyle Talley came out of the night pleased...

Nevada Daily Mail TRENTON, Mo. -- The Cottey College Comets kept their winning streak alive with a decisive, 71-48 victory over North Central Missouri College Wednesday night. It was a fairly even first half as the Comets entered the break with a narrow, 29-28 lead. However, Cottey turned it on both offensively and defensively in the second half, scoring 42 points and holding the LAdy Pirates to just 20...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail "I'll take it. At this point, I don't care if it's one point. I don't care if it's a half a point. I'll take it." Despite being down a number of competitors, Nevada Tigers head wrestling coach Devin White knew it wouldn't be out of the question for his squad to come out of Senior Night with a win and that's exactly what the Tigers did, defeating Buffalo by a final score of 44-42 Thursday night...

Loretta Vandenburg Price, 80, the daughter of George Everett and Ertis Eliza (Kiger) Vandenburg was born March 24, 1932, on a farm west of Nevada, Mo., and passed from this life Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, at the Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Mo., surrounded by her family and church family singing praises to God...

Hi neighbors. Another February is upon us and with it another Groundhog Day. Groundhogs are difficult to observe, being the shy little creatures they are, so I have decided to watch for a squirrel to see his shadow. Squirrels, however, move so fast it might be hard to determine if they saw their shadow or not. ...

For nearly 20 years I have been writing a column called Middle Age Plus each week. I chose this name because I was a little beyond the halfway mark of my life (I thought) when I began these weekly visits. But the main thing was I wanted to point out all the pluses that this age brings to those of us fortunate enough to reach it. ...

Dear Editor: Regarding the national debate now underway regarding guns in the hands of the American public, we need to keep this in mind. The Second Amendment, which protected the right of the people to keep and bear arms, was one of the most cherished rights of the American people. They had waged a long, costly, and bloody war against tyrants and they were not about to trust a new government without the means to protect themselves from a tyrannical government...

You hear the heroic stories of men and women in law enforcement risking their lives to respond, pursue and apprehend people who try to harm others or commit a wide range of crimes. You may even see it firsthand, up to the point where the suspect is taken away in handcuffs. ...

Vernon County's calendar 2013 budget envisages spending only $68,308 more than last year, but that frugality resulted more from department heads than the county commission, which had the luxury of starting the New Year with a $513,240 surplus and was able to give full consideration to law enforcement funding and domestic violence concerns, Presiding Commissioner Bonnie McCord said Thursday...

Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY -- State Auditor Tom Schweich announced today that his office has started a petition audit of the Village of Deerfield, located in Vernon County. Citizens circulated a petition gathering the 10 signatures needed to obtain an audit from the state auditor's office...

No one denies that a lot of alcohol is consumed at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course, despite city ordinances prohibiting it. Wednesday night the Nevada Parks Board took the first step toward changing that when they voted 5-0 to send a positive recommendation to the city council "allowing the sale of intoxicating liquor at the Frank E Peters Golf Course and delegate the Parks Board with the authority to regulate those sales to ensure no beer or intoxicating liquor will be permitted on the golf course unless purchased on premises and consumption will be restricted and conditioned in a manner consistent with the City's responsibility to maintain the course as an attractive recreational site for the entire public.". ...