Stories from Friday, September 27, 2013

Forrest Randall Dilly, 89, Nevada, formerly of Sheldon, Mo., passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at Barone Alzheimer's Care Center in Nevada. He was born on Nov. 11, 1923, in Madison, S.D., to Charles Albert Dilly and Della G. Randall Dilly. He married Kathryn Jean Meyer on Oct. 13, 1945, in Minnesota and she preceded him in death on Jan. 21, 2013...

EL DORADO SPRINGS -- The Nevada Middle School seventh-grade football team posted its strongest performance of the season Tuesday night, taking a 40-0 victory over El Dorado Springs. "The team played very well on both sides of the ball," Tigers coach Mason Heard said. "The defense held El Dorado Springs to zero points and forced multiple turnovers."...

The Nevada Lady Tigers softball team got back to its winning ways Wednesday, with a 15-0 rout of the Butler Lady Bears at Bushwhacker Field. After junior right-hander Maddie Hedges worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the first inning, the Lady Tigers scored five runs in each of their first two at-bats and the game ended after Michaela Brewer drove in the 15th run with no outs in the bottom of the fourth inning. ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- Former Nevada Tiger golfer Tyler Gast and his Missouri Western teammates finished 13th in the Husky Classic, hosted by St. Cloud State University. The Griffons were a dozen strokes better than Concordia-St. Paul, but trailed Manitoba by 12 strokes with a final score of 640. Bemidji State won the team title with a 592...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor The Nevada Lady Tigers volleyball team got back into action at Wynn Gymnasium Thursday night knowing they had a much less formidable opponent in front of them, but still had a lot on the line following a far less than impressive performance in their last home match...

By Gloria Tucker Nevada Daily Mail Walker Fun Days may only be one day, but organizer William Jeffry still believes the festival is just as important. "Walker doesn't often get together," Jeffry said. "This is a chance for everybody in the community to come together. We almost didn't have a Walker Fun Days, and this is an important tradition."...

Nevada Daily Mail Rain or shine, Bronaugh will have its Fall Festival on Saturday. A dunk booth with school faculty, a talent show and a seniors' 5K run/2K walk are this year's new events. "I love the whole festival," Amanda Million, Bronaugh park board president said. "I haven't missed since third grade, and I'm 32."...

I have found that the more years I spend in middle age plus the more times I either ask myself or someone asks me, "what if?" My son put grab bars by the bathtub. What if I should fall when no one else is around to help me? Or, what if I just couldn't get out of the tub sometime? To remedy that Lester put an attachment on the shower that I can lift off the holder and hold in my hand. ...

In the study of the Civil War, for years the primary focus has been on the Civil War east of the Mississippi River. This is understandable because that is where the majority of the war occurred. However, in the past 30 years or so scholarship and the study of the war has expanded to the Trans-Mississippi theater of Operations, but there is still one area that has not been extensively studied and that is the Civil War that occurred on the Central Plains which includes central and western Kansas. ...

Dear Editor: Gun Violence? Isn't that expression kind of like saying "Ice Cream Fattening"? A carton of ice cream sitting in your refrigerator or at your local grocery store is just ice cream. Once you make that decision to put a spoon in that carton and indulge yourself you realize what could happen. Artery clogging, high calorie intake, and weight gain are just a few things that you know will happen by making that decision; however that's a decision we all make...

By Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler Missouri 4th Congressional District It has been more than three and a half years since Obamacare was jammed through Congress, and Americans are painfully learning more about the hostile takeover of the best health care system in the world...