Stories from Wednesday, March 20, 2013

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail "I think we're going to have anything pretty well covered." The Nevada High School track team and head coach Robert Watts have a strong core coming back from last year and though they have had some trouble getting practices in and figuring out exactly where they stand thanks to the recent issues relating to weather, things are looking good...

Nevada Daily Mail A new tradition has begun at Nevada High School. The Nevada Tigers baseball team hosted its first annual Crimson and Gray game at Lyons Stadium Tuesday afternoon. Tigers head coach Danny Penn said he got the idea for an intrasquad game as the unofficial starting point of the season from his days coaching at Pittsburg. Though it was a chilly day, the weather mostly cooperated and the game went on without a hitch...

Nevada Daily Mail SPRINGFIELD -- Three Nevada High School football players have been selected to take part in the annual Grin Iron Classic all-star football game. Sam Ellifrits was an All-State lineman for the Tigers in 2012 and was a significant contributor on this year's team, which came up just one game short of playing for a district championship under head coach Wes Beachler. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey College Comets softball team has felt the sting of Mother Nature's wrath for the second time in the 2013 season. Head coach Shelli Stanley's squad was scheduled to head out on the road to take on Kansas City, Kan., Community College Tuesday afternoon, but those games were called off due to weather. ...

The Healthy Nevada Project took a big step forward Monday when work began to transform the third floor of the Nevada Public Library into the Healthy Nevada Innovation Center. Negotiations for the leasing and renovation project that began several months ago have culminated in a contract that was signed last month. The contract gives Cerner a five-year lease and an option for an additional five years, according to head librarian Jodi Polk...

Alliance Water Resources considers workplace safety to be very important, local system manager Shawn Middendorf told the Nevada City Council during Tuesday's meeting. To recognize the effort it takes to maintain a safe work environment, Middendorf told the council that Alliance created the Flying Eagle Award several years ago to recognize outstanding safety records...

Buon giorno, Mamma! It's Friday in Rome, and that can only mean one thing: it's educational module day. This morning, Sylvio and I are taking a group of 20 students to the Galleria Borghese to see famous Baroque works of art by Caravaggio, Bernini, and others. I'm stoked! The one part about this module that's unpopular is having to leave at 7:45 a.m. I'm not too crazy about it myself, but it takes about 50 minutes to get there and we have 9 a.m. tickets...