Stories from Thursday, November 21, 2013

Kathryn Viola Rasmussen joined her savior on Aug. 11, 2013, in Denver, Colo., after a short hospitalization, due to a rare lung condition. Kathy Z, as she was known to her Mary Kay family, was survived by her husband, Dale, with whom she recently celebrated her 50-year wedding anniversary...

Dr. Patrick Davis has returned to southwest Missouri, this time as a livestock specialist for MU Extension and the county program director for Cedar County Extension. He is responsible for Vernon County, Barton, Cedar, Dade and St. Clair counties. He started with MU Extension in 2011 and was headquartered in Neosho and worked in the MAESTRO program conducting farm energy audits...

Nevada Daily Mail Jay Garrott, director and professor in the Center for Community Studies at Drury University, attended the Sheldon Community Betterment meeting Tuesday to outline the vision project and set dates for future meetings. "We will devote six of our architecture students specifically to this project," Garrott said. "They will study the community and give a final recommendation. We're not giving you the vision; we're giving you the materials you will need to create your vision."...

Nevada Daily Mail After years of wanting a new public safety building and months of discussion and negotiations between the city, police, fire departments and the architects, the Nevada City Council voted 5-0 to accept the bid of $3,815,086 from R.E. Smith Construction, Joplin, for the construction of a new fire station and a police/municipal courts building...

Special to the Daily Mail Bill Phelps, lieutenant governor of Missouri from 1973-1981 and a graduate of Nevada High School class of 1952, was recently interviewed at the Bushwhacker Museum. The video-recorded discussion was done as part of the Vernon County Historical Society's ongoing oral history project...

Missouri Conservation Department personnel estimate the number of ducks at the Four Rivers Conservation Area to be around 89,000, with a few geese. Eighteen positions are available for hunters and hunting has been fair. Some 67 hunters shot 204 ducks last Saturday and Sunday...

The Nevada Lady Tigers basketball team has been seeded third in next month's Carl Junction Classic tournament. The host Lady Bulldogs earned the tournament's top seed with Siloam Springs (Ark.) seeded second, followed by the Lady Tigers, Carthage, Liberal's Lady Bulldogs, the Carl Junction junior varsity, McDonald County and Monett. The tournament opens Dec. 2, when Carl Junction's varsity plays Monett, at 6 p.m., and Carthage takes on Liberal, at 7:30...

The Nevada Tigers have received the seventh seed in the upcoming Carthage Invitational boys' basketball tournament Dec. 2-7. Heritage High School (Rogers, Ark.) is the top-seeded team with Joplin's Eagles second, followed by Seneca, Carthage, Neosho, Nevada and Monett. Head coach John McNeley's Tigers are scheduled to take on Joplin, at 6:30 p.m., Dec. 3, in the opening round of the tournament...