Stories from Friday, October 3, 2014

Sally Ann Wilkinson, 47, of Nevada, Mo., died on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center. She was born Aug. 12, 1967, in Dade County, Mo., the daughter of Wyman James and Della Roxene (Arnold) Wilkinson. A memorial service for Sally Ann Wilkinson will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 3, at Ferry Funeral Home, in Nevada. Interment will take place at a later date...

Recently, I was looking through some old microfilm archived pictures from the paper, taken during the '50s and '60s. In the collection, I noted one of our former, very common local infrastructure items, a long silver-gray, slotted bike rack. Racks like this one could be found at a variety of locations in my youth. A favorite of mine was the one located in front of Flory's Drug Store...

How do you answer a question like that? In some cases the same thing would fit both categories. Some people who had problems or troubles with new things would think they were certainly not on the good side. Yet others who caught on quickly felt there had never been anything better. I am interested in what you as an individual would chose for each category. To be fair about it, I, must make some choices...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Middle School seventh and eighth grade Science Expo is sponsored by the Nevada Rotary Club, who provides category champions with $25 gift cards and the Best of Show champion with a $50 gift card. The science teachers working on this project include Amanda Pollock, Rachel Fast, and Angie Landoll. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Infrastructure Com-mittee spent an hour Wednesday evening going over listings of Nevada streets that are in need of work and is getting close to having a final list of projects to send to the city council for final approval...

Nevada Daily Mail On July 15 at about 7:12 a.m., Ron Burrdick went into sudden cardiac arrest while at work at American Standard Brands. Fortunately for Burrdick, about three weeks earlier American Standards had given the staff CPR-AED and first aid training...

Nevada Middle School speedster Callie Beshore continued her season of excellence, by finishing in second place in the 1.5 mile event, Tuesday at Lamar. Beshore finished with a time of 9:23. Other Nevada Middle Schoolers to run were: Amara Pippen, who placed seventh, running the mile-and-a-half in 10:03; Hallie Lundine, clocking in at 12:15; on the boys middle school side Devin McHugh finished in 35th place with a time of 9:30 and Ben Sudkamp checked in at 10:52...

The Nevada Middle School eighth-grade A volleyball team defeated Joplin North at home Thursday, 25-19 and 26-24. The eighth-grade B team was also victorious in two sets, winning 25-14 and 25-23. The NMS seventh-grade A team cruised past Joplin North in two sets, 25-17 and 25-18...

The Cottey College Comets were ousted in five sets by Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College, Wednesday in Miami, Okla., 25-22, 25-22, (25-19), (25-13), and (19-17). "Wow, wow, wow...what a great night of volleyball, minus the win," Comets coach Marla Kannady-Foreman said. "My entire team had a great night. I just wish we could have gotten a "W" out of all the hard work they put into the night."...

Nevada Daily Mail In a match that went down to the wire, the visiting Hume Hornets escaped with a three-set victory Tuesday, knocking off the Bronaugh Wildcats 25-21, (25-20), and 25-22. It appeared as though Hume was going to cruise to a first set victory, after taking commanding leads of 12-1 and 16-4. However, the Wildcats clawed back, taking 14 of the next 15 points to go up 18-17...

Nevada Daily Mail Coming off a tough loss on Tuesday against Hume, the Bronaugh Wildcats bounced back, as they defeated the Northeast Vernon County Knights 25-20 and 25-21, Thursday night in Walker. With the win, Bronaugh moves to 7-10 on the year, while NEVC falls to 3-4...