Stories from Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Kenneth D. Haynes, 90, of Belton, Mo., died Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, at the Rehabilitation Center of Raymore, Mo. He was born April 16, 1923. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Belton Christian Church, Belton, Mo. Arrangements are made by Sheldon Funeral Home, El Dorado Springs, Mo...

Nevada Daily Mail Bronaugh students will be watching the afternoon clock for an additional five minutes next school year. Members of the Bronaugh Board of Education approved a new schedule for the district at a meeting on Monday night. That schedule will extend the school day by five minutes, meanwhile incorporating a homeroom option and removing early-out Wednesdays...

Nevada Daily Mail Around 40 people attended the Sheldon Vision Committee's first workshop with four Drury architecture students Monday evening. Josh Ogren, Tony Tai-an Yue, Ngoc Bich Do and Grace Lounsbury will work with the community to create a vision plan for making improvements to Sheldon for the next 20 to 30 years...

Nevada Dailey Mail The goal of having a new facility for the Children's Center, moved a little closed Tuesday night, when the Nevada City Council voted 5-0 to give preliminary approval to the final plat and development agreement for Curtis Business Park. The development, located north and west of Pathways Community Health, 320 N. Mac Boulevard. The final plat and development agreement are a requirement before any construction can proceed on the new facility...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor Monday was a big day at Nevada High School, as a crowd nearly filled the school's Library/Media Center to its capacity for an event that only occurs once in a player's career, if a high school athlete is lucky enough to even get the opportunity once. That event was a ceremony in which Nevada High School senior Alex Payne signed a letter of intent to play football and baseball for the Tigers of Iowa Wesleyan College...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor Tuesday night was a very special one at Nevada High School, as the Tigers and Lady Tigers were both in action against Springfield Central on the same night as a legendary former Tigers basketball player was inducted into the school's Wall of Fame at the conclusion of the Lady Tigers' 53-34 victory over the Lady Bulldogs...

The Nevada Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade boys' basketball teams began postseason play Monday night and both squads came out of the night with positive results. In the seventh-grade game, head coach Robert Miner's squad defeated fourth-seeded Webb City, by a final score of 46-37. Not only was that win an upset, as the Tigers were seeded below Webb City, but it also marked Miner's 100th career win as a coach...

MONTROSE, Mo. -- Sheldon High School's boys' basketball team nipped Montrose, 60-56, Monday night, on the road and in the process, won their 19th game of the season, against four losses. And not only that, but Monday's win further cemented the Panthers as the top team in the Golden Valley Vernon County Conference, as Monday's game was a rematch of the conference tournament championship game, when the Panthers won by a final score of 62-50, at Hume High School, Saturday...

NEOSHO, Mo. -- The Nevada Tigers freshman boys' basketball team got back into action Monday night, in what head coach Shaun Gray knew would be a tough contest against the Wildcats of Neosho High School. By the time all was said and done, the Tigers came up just short, falling by a final score of 50-48, in overtime...

Prior to Fridah's basketball gameeveryone will learn which of htese Nevada High School students will be crowned the 2014 Courtwarming Queen. From left: Brooklyn Ryan, Kelsey McCall, Marli Coonrod and Nikiya Frezell Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail

Nevada Daily Mail Getting a phone call into Bronaugh schools will no longer come with screeching and static. Superintendent Lyle Best approached the Bronaugh Board of Education at its monthly meeting on Monday with cost estimates for a new telephone system. The current phones used throughout the school building are more than 15-years-old, and were originally donated, leaving administrators unsure of how old the equipment actually is...