Stories from Saturday, May 28, 2016

"Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved." -- George Washington I have decided that I have an identity problem. I have been living my entire life thinking I was an average American person, but have recently searched my inner self and discovered that I identify better as a rich person. ...

Hi neighbors. Happy Memorial Day weekend! As a child growing up in Wichita, Kan., most of my memories of my father's family involve holiday trips back to Missouri when my father had a day off and there was no school. Memorial Day always involved a trip to the cemeteries, a picnic at the park and a family gathering at my grandmother's house. ...

Dear Editor: Hackberry Cemetery is a small country cemetery located southwest of Nevada, one-fourth mile south of Highway KK on 850 Road. Many older people in the area will remember attending Hackberry School adjacent to the cemetery. The school building burned many years ago, but the cemetery is still being cared for...

Special to the Daily Mail After graduating from Walker High School in 1966, Michael Brooks and his twin brother, Marshall, enlisted in the United States Air Force under the buddy system in 1967. They were sent to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas where they both entered the tech program and received eight weeks of training...

Nevada Daily Mail The pool should be ready to open on Monday, weather permitting, Dana Redburn, Nevada parks and recreation director told the park board during its Wednesday meeting. Redburn told the board there have been a lot of issues getting the pool ready to open this year...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Police Department announced Friday that 32-year-old Casey G. Anders, who was on parole from the Missouri Department of Corrections, has been charged in the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Brendon Spencer Moreland Tuesday night...

Brendan "Spencer" Moreland, 28, Nevada, Mo., passed away in Nevada on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. He was born on Oct. 3, 1987, in Yuba City, Calif., to Daniel K. Snead and Brenda Sue Moreland. Spencer was raised in California, until age 8, then came to Nevada in 1995. ...

Gilbert Cage Harris, 51, Nevada, Mo., passed from this life on Thursday, May 26, 2016, at Medicalodge, in Nevada. Gilbert was born on July 5, 1964, in Artesia, N.M., to Gilbert Gene and Rhoda Celena (Wilkinson) Harris. He was united in marriage to Patricia Ann Weber on Dec. 23, 1985, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

The Nevada Tigers baseball team was honored Thursday evening at Nevada High School, with various awards being presented and handed out by the school's varsity, junior varsity and freshman coaches ---- Danny Penn, Kyle Talley, Eric Cameron, and Jake Stevenson...

Former amateur Motocross star Austin Forkner, 17, of Richards, made his professional Motocross debut last weekend at the Hangtown Nationals in Sacramento, Calif., placing eighth. Forkner's eighth-place finish was the tops among all rookie riders at the event...

More than 2,000 individuals attended the weigh-in at the Teen Anglers Tournament held on Stockton Lake Sunday. They watched as the young anglers brought in their catch to be weighed. There were 166 teams of two anglers representing 54 Missouri middle and high schools...

Nevada R-5 recently named Kori Dodson of Liberal, as the new head coach of the Lady Tigers freshman basketball team, replacing Anne Smoot. In addition, Dodson will serve as a varsity girls assistant coach on Brent Bartlett's Lady Tigers basketball staff, as well as an assistant on Ashley Thoreson's volleyball staff...

Nevada High School freshman boys basketball coach, Blake Howarth, has been promoted to the position of associate head basketball coach of the Lady Tigers varsity basketball team. "I was honored to receive this position," Howarth told the Daily Mail. "It was hard to leave the boys program, as I have loved watching them grow as players...