Stories from Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Nevada Daily Maial The Missouri Retired Teachers Foundation presented Kathleen Day of the NEVC R-1 School District with a $500 check at the all-staff back-to-school workshop Aug. 18. The $500 award, presented by MRTA Region 6 Vice President Arleta Godwin, will assist with Day's classroom project of purchasing various materials for her art students to study Asian culture culminating in a 'Tour of Japan' exhibit and research trip to the Johnson County Community College annual Japan Festival...

Nevada Daily Mail For more than 40 years, the Community Council on the Performing Aarts has provided a wide variety of entertainment to the community along with countless opportunities for community members of all ages to showcase their talents on stage, according to a press release from the organization...

Nevada Daily Mail Technology is continuously developing in order to make life easier, and Legacy Farm and Lawn in Nevada has started using some of that technology to help in the area of agriculture. Cody Claflin has worked with Legacy for the past year and has been interested in agronomy since 2009; wanting to not just tell people what equipment they need to use but why and how it will help them...

Nevada Daily Mail A suspect wearing a blue-leotard-suit forced entry into a business in the 2000 block of East Austin, Sunday, Aug. 23, some time between 10:30 p.m. and 9:17 a.m. the next day. Officers with the Nevada Police Department responded when an employee went to open the store for business and found that someone had forced entry into the building...

Dwain LeRoy Mosher, 71, Moundville, Mo., passed from this life on Aug. 25, 2015, at Freeman West Hospital, in Joplin, following a brief illness. Dwain was born Jan. 2, 1943, in Nevada, Mo., to Roy and Marie (Hillier) Mosher. He was united in marriage to Karen Jean Ogle on May 27, 1961, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

Bronaugh's volleyball team opened with a three-set match victory over host Thomas Jefferson Monday, with the Wildcats dropping the first game 25-20 but bouncing back to take games 2 and 3 by 25-23 and 25-22 scores. Rebecca Schnedler had seven aces for Bronaugh...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tigers fell to the McDonald County Lady Mustangs 12-3 in the softball season-opener, Tuesday evening at Bushwhacker Field. Taking the mound for Nevada was freshman Kylie Boyd. With one-out in the bottom of the first inning, Kylie Helm, doubled to deep left-center field, scoring Hanna Schmit from first base, as the Lady Mustangs went on top 1-0...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tigers tennis team opened its season with a trio of victories, downing Carl Junction 7-2, Thomas Jefferson 5-4, and Monett 9-0. "The doubles played exceptionally well, followed up by some dynamic singles play," noted Nevada Coach Samantha Short. "Our junior varsity also just lost two so we had a great night," she said of the Carl Junction match...