Stories from Thursday, November 7, 2013

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor The Cottey College Comets basketball team entered the season with a lot of questions to answer since head coach Dave Ketterman's squad returned just two players from last year's squad that finished the season with a record of 16-4...

Three members of the Cottey College Comets volleyball team have had their names added to the 2013 All- Region team rosters. In a Region meeting, the coaches select 10 players on their form to receive All-Region honors. Northeast Oklahoma A&M Community College is not included in the Region voting, so there are five schools voting. Anyone receiving less than four votes is automatically placed on the second team, and those receiving at least four votes each, are placed on the first team...

The Nevada Lady Tigers volleyball team's season may be over, but the accolades keep coming. Lady Tigers head coach Ashley Thoreson announced via email Wednesday afternoon that two of her players earned All-Region honors for the 2013 season. Rilie Good and Morgan McNeley both played integral roles in the Lady Tigers' success this season and their contributions earned them both spots on the All-Region second team...

Nevada Daily Mail The Bronaugh school district will be holding its' Veterans' Day assembly Friday, Nov. 8, with Missouri Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Austin Parks as the featured speaker. A graduate of Lamar High School, Parks joined the Missouri Army National Guard in 2001. As a water purification specialist, he worked in Iraq in convoy security, water purification, administration NCO and mail distribution for a year...

The Community Council on the Performing Arts will present "A Bad Year for Tomatoes" at 8 p.m., Nov. 14-16, and at 2 p.m., Nov. 17, at the Fox Playhouse, 110 S. Main, Nevada. "Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven and settles down to write her autobiography," begins the synopsis of the play, according to a press release from the CCPA...

Winter fashion for women will be spotlighted at the CATO-Cottey Fashion Show and Food Drive Sunday, Nov. 10, in the Missouri Recital Hall of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. Doors open at 1:45 p.m. and the fashion show will begin at 2...

Nevada Daily Mail With 14 teachers and two family advocates serving up to 87 children, from 6 weeks old to 5 years, the Nevada location for Head Start is working on doing just that, giving those it serves a head start on their education. The preschool does more than just offer early instructional help though, said Center Director Tera McFarland...

Kyle and Liz Coatney, of Centennial, Colo., and two older siblings are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Mila Katherine Coatney. Mila was born at 7 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013, at Rose Hospital, Denver, Colo. She weighed 6 pounds and measured 18 inches...