Stories from Thursday, February 7, 2013

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail Nevada High School administrators are beginning the search for a new head football coach. Wes Beachler has accepted the position as head football coach at Republic High School in the Central Ozarks Conference. Beachler said his business in Nevada isn't quite finished yet and he will remain on the Nevada High School staff until the end of this school year...

Nevada Daily Mail NEOSHO, Mo. -- The Nevada Middle School seventh-grade boys' basketball teams got back into action Tuesday night against with less than favorable results. Head coach Robert Miner's A team lost, 45-31. Braeden Hinton led the offensive effort for Nevada with 13 points...

Nevada Daily Mail Neosho handed Nevada a narrow loss in the A game and controlled the tempo from the start in the B game. The Nevada A team came up just short in a 49-40 loss. "Neosho played well and we did not," noted coach Tyson Beshore. "We struggled to find rhythm on both ends of the court. The great thing is we get to redeem ourselves Monday because we play Neosho in the first round of the tournament...

Nevada Daily Mail WALKER -- The first and fourth quarters proved challenging for host Northeast Vernon County's boys in a second-round game of the GVVC tournament as the host Knights fell, 64-47, to Montrose. The Knights opened cold and managed just seven points, but were still within striking distance at the first break, down 14-7. Both teams warmed up in the second frame with 21 points each, producing a 35-28 halftime score...

Nevada Daily Mail WALKER -- Sheldon's girls were within five points with just 7 1/2 minutes to go, but missed five shots and committed four turnovers in the remaining time and wound up dropping a 47-30 decision Tuesday night on the second day of the Golden Valley Vernon County Conference basketball tournament...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail "I think I told my assistant, Josh (Lamb), that all I wanted is get this game over with and not have anybody hurt." Sheldon Panthers head coach Tyler Judd had a lot to worry about when it came to possible player injuries during Wednesday night's game in the Golden Valley Vernon County Conference Tournament...

Nevada Daily Mail Vernon County Cancer Relief will be hosting their fourth annual Italian dinner fundraiser on Feb. 23 at the Nevada Elks Lodge No. 564 Bingo Hall. Social hour begins at 5:30 with a cash bar. The dinner consisting of lasagna, salad, bread, dessert and drink, will be served at 6:30 p.m...

Nevada Daily Mail The Community Blood Center will be holding a blood drive on Feb. 14 at the Nevada Regional Medical Center in the Moore-Few Community Room from 1 - 5 p.m. To make an appointment go to www.esavealifenow-.org and use Sponsor Code: nrmc, or call NRMC community education at (417) 448-3622...

Nevada Daily Mail Dr. Alan Stevens, Kansas State Extension floriculture specialist and director of the Prairie Star annual and perennial flower research program will present a program, Monday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m., on the Top 40, The Best of the Best Prairie Star Annual Flowers...

The Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Tracy Droz Tragos has made several trips to Rich Hill where she spent time with relatives when she was a youngster. She has been visiting the town she has fond memories of and trying to chronicle on film how the small Bates County community is an example of small communities across the country that have struggled to survive and have done so because of the character and uniqueness of their inhabitants...

Council member Jayne Novak told the Nevada City Council during Tuesday's meeting that she was not comfortable with paying Archetype Design Group Inc. $50,000 for the design and other construction services related to building a new clubhouse at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course. The architects fee is 10 percent of the total cost of the facility to be designed...