Stories from Saturday, September 21, 2013

Darren and Amy Mead of El Dorado Springs, Mo., and older siblings, Gracie and Lane, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Stella Rose Mead. Stella was born at 11:34 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 19 inches...

Hillary Lauren Malcom and Zechariah Clayton Rose exchanged wedding vows on July 27, 2013, in LaPlatt Community Church, Bellevue, Neb. Pastor Jim Parker performed the double-ring ceremony. Church decorations included eggplant pew sashes, buckets of white roses at the altar, along with candelabras intertwined with white tulle and lit by Savanah Mendez...

Hi neighbors. My mother often said that we don't always recognize what we need when it is right in front of us. Like most children, I figured she was having a senior moment and just trying to sound wise by jabbering nonsense. That's when I was 10. Now that I occasionally have senior moments of one type or another myself, I think about some of her wisdom and begin to understand what she was talking about all those decades ago. I never was a quick study...

Elbert Hubbard once said "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." Some of the technology and machines we have today are almost unbelievable. It was not until I lost my phone for a short time recently that I realized how much I depend on just that single device! In fact, I realized I use my "smart phone" for other tasks more than I do for talking. ...

The power of partnerships -- it's more than a theme or a catchy slogan. It's a necessary ingredient today. Small towns and communities have long operated on the principle "you scratch my back and I'll scratch your's." Local businesses doing business with other local businesses and residents shopping with these merchants are the obvious approaches. Home and community may be defined in further distances these days but the reciprocality of a relationship still pays dividends...

Nevada Daily Mail Northeast Vernon County high school students will learn about technology hands-on when the school purchases 120 Chrome Books in part with a $9,000 grant from the Finis Moss Trust. "We hope to get them in a week. We'll have some extras. My concern is battery life," Superintendent Charles Naas said at the NEVC School Board meeting Thursday...

The Nevada City Council will be considering the second reading of a special ordinance setting the date for the 2014 city council election during its meeting at 7 p.m., Monday in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash Street. Other items on the agenda include the first reading of a special ordinance accepting the option for Troutt, Beeman & Co. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Crisis Intervention Team's first RESPECT Day, a partnership between the Nevada Police Department, Mid-America Law Enforcement, Healthy Nevada and the Respect Institute of Missouri, was a positive effort that did what it set out to do -- raise awareness and share information, said organizers...

Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher said late Friday afternoon that a warrant has been issued for Stormy Miller charging him with possession of a controlled substance, possession of an explosive weapon, and unlawful use of a weapon. Mosher said the Missouri Highway Patrol Bomb Squad was called out Tuesday night after an explosive device was located when Sheriff's Deputies arrested Miller...