Stories from Tuesday, August 12, 2014

The world lost a kind and gentle man with the passing of Sam D. Pryor on Aug. 6, 2014, in the loving care of Kansas City Hospice House. He was 92. Born in Nevada, Mo., in 1922, Sam was the son of Helen Litson Pryor and Henry Warren Pryor and one of five siblings: brother, Warren, and his twin, Dorothy (Hickman); and sisters, Ruby (Spillman), and Annalise (Harpold)...

Nevada Daily Mail Though a century of tradition would be an accomplishment in itself, Sheldon's Old Settler's Picnic returns to celebrate its 110th anniversary Aug. 14 through 16. In recognition for its importance and history, the 2014 grand marshal is the Sheldon R-8 School District. Organized as a village district in 1895, the schools became Sheldon R-8 in 1951 and served Barton, Cedar and Vernon County students...

Nevada Daily Mail Healthy Nevada has a lot of projects underway, Carol Branham, Healthy Nevada board of directors president, said during Friday's monthly Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Healthy Nevada Innovation Center. She said that the Cerner Company in partnership with the city of Nevada will help to get the community involved in the project in a way that each person and group is comfortable...

Nevada Daily Mail Karissa Strack, 29, of Springfield, received minor injuries in a one-vehicle accident on Route E, half a mile west of Montevallo, around 1:26 a.m., Saturday. Strack's 1996 Ford Ranger failed to negotiate a curve, ran off the left side of the road, overcorrected to run off the right side of the road, struck a ditch and overturned, according to the Highway Patrol report...

Nevada Daily Mail Baseball fan Mary Ellen Liter was born in 1909; the same year Ty Cobb took the Triple Crown. And in recent years Liter has spent many summer evenings enjoying local baseball at Lyons Stadium watching the Griffons. Liter was born during World War I in Nevada. She lived on a 200-acre farm with her parents, older sister and two younger brothers, where they grew corn, wheat and oats. She disliked shucking the wheat and oats...

Nevada Daily Mail Healthy Nevada has a lot of projects underway, Carol Branham, Healthy Nevada board of directors president, said during Friday's monthly Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Healthy Nevada Innovation Center. She said that the Cerner Company in partnership with the city of Nevada will help to get the community involved in the project in a way that each person and group is comfortable...

Nevada High School head football coach Erik Yoakam believes his team has the potential to be highly competitive this fall, despite losing a number of key players from last year's squad. After a 5-5 finish in 2013, Yoakam enters his second season as the Tigers head coach...