Stories from Saturday, May 7, 2016

Nevada Daily Mail Cottey College is preparing for its 132nd Commencement and other related activities. As these important events draw closer, drivers on Austin need to watch for increased pedestrian and visitor traffic and to drive safely. The public is invited to attend the following commencement weekend events...

Randy and Tish Burchell, of Rich Hill, Mo., and Darl and Kerry Jennings, of Nevada, Mo., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda Burchell, and their son, Damon Jennings. Amanda is a graduate of Rich Hill High School and is employed by Nevada Regional Medical Center. Damon is a graduate of Nevada High School and Pittsburg State University, and is employed by 3M of Nevada...

Nevada Daily Mail Rural carriers Chet Foreman and Jim Liles were surrounded by friends and family as they were honored with Million Mile Awards in a ceremony Thursday morning at the Nevada post office. "This is a lifetime achievement that doesn't happen every day," said postmaster Julie Mader...

Nevada Daily Mail "The health of any area is measured by how its people are doing financially, physically and socially," said Gordon D. Christensen, M.D., Democratic candidate for the fourth district seat of the U.S. House of Representatives. "And after three terms of Vicki Hartzler as your representative, I ask you, is the fourth district and are you personally better off today than six years ago?"...

According to Nevada track-and-field coaches, while at the Tri-County Conference track-and-field meet in Joplin Thursday, NMS eighth-grader Calli Beshore broke her own school-record in the mile-run, with a time of 5:34, besting her previous time of 5:34.71...

The Cottey Comets 2016 softball season concluded with losses in both games played at the NJCAA Region 16 Division II Tournament, Friday in Union, Mo. According to results submitted by Mineral Area College on www.njcaa.org, the Comets fell in the first game to Mineral Area College 15-3. ...

The Nevada Tigers crushed Kansas City Center 11-1 in a six-inning contest Thursday evening in K.C. The West Central Conference victory improves the Tigers to 6-5 in WCC-play (11-13 overall). For Nevada, junior Jacob Johnson picked up the win, scattering three hits over five innings, while striking out seven and walking three. In addition, Johnson was charged with an earned run. Payton Bright worked a clean sixth inning, recording one strike out...

Back in 1976, when America was celebrating its 200th anniversary, Sugar Farris was starting the first bass fishing tournaments for woman known as Bass'n Gals. It was the equivalent of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (BASS). At one point it had 32,000 members in clubs and held nine tournaments a year, but ceased operations in 1997...

Sheldon High School standout student-athlete Logan Lamb signed a letter-of-intent Friday to attend Cottey College, as she joins the Comets track-and-field team. Lamb, who qualified for the Missouri Class 1 state track meet in 2015 while also placing high at numerous other meets during her prep career, competes in the shot put, discus, and javelin throw...

The Northeast Vernon County Knights are hosting the Class 1 District 13 baseball tournament May 13-16 in Walker. The tournament opens Saturday, May 14, with third-seeded NEVC (4-7)squaring-off against sixth-seeded Ballard (2-7) at 9 a.m. The opening-round picks back up the following, Monday, May 16, as the fourth-seeded Hume Hornets (2-8) face No. 5 seed Kingsville (2-6). The first pitch is set for 4:30 p.m...