Stories from Friday, July 8, 2016

Nevada Daily Mail The Sheldon board of aldermen met July 5, at the city park to discuss the height of the new bandstand. According to mayor pro tem Robert Moran, the contractor, Mark Rives, suggested changes to the overall height and pitch of the bandstand's roof in order to improve the aesthetics of the design...

Nevada Daily Mail June saw Vernon County close on the purchase of 1.6 acres at a cost of $22,500. The land is located adjacent to and south of the recycling center. "For some time we've been needing to expand the center," said Presiding Commissioner Joe Hardin. "Because this piece of land directly abuts the recycling center we thought it's purchase would make that expansion easy."...

Nevada Daily Mail The Vernon County MU Extension office is already feeling the effects of system wide budget cuts and a March 2016 hiring freeze. According to a document from the MU Extension titled "Understanding the MU Extension budget for FY2017," all MU campus units, "will see a 5 percent reduction in general operating revenue."...

Nevada Daily Mail "If I have any agenda for the Nevada R-5 school board it goes back to the two reasons I ran for the position," said Jay Sloniker, member of the Nevada R-5 school board, vice-President of FCS Financial at the Nevada office and president of Vernon County Cattlemen's Association...

I was never certain why Joe Barone used "green ink" to grade our English IV essays. The term grade, barely describes the totality of his assessment process, for each of our offerings. If in this column, I display any modest writing ability, I owe him all I possess of that technique...

Editor's Note: This column originally ran in the Dec. 27, 2013, edition of the Daily Mail. The more pluses I put on my middle age plus, the more I am aware of how many times, some little incident has changed my life. And then I try to remember why I chose to be where the incident happened, or wonder why any of the other people involved happened to be there. Somebody had to have made a decision...

Priscilla M. Schuster, 92, of Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, July 5, 2016. Priscilla was born on March 24, 1924, in East Bridgewater, Mass., to Albert W. Swan and Wilma J. (Mann) Swan. Priscilla was raised in Massachusetts and graduated from Milton High School in 1942. Prior to graduation she had begun working for the John Hancock Insurance Company in Boston where she continued to work for several years...

Lee Ann Smith, 64, of Nevada, Mo., passed away on Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada. She was born on July 5, 1952, in Pittsburg, Kan., to Rex Wamsley Smith and Virginia Lee (Evans) Smith. Lee Ann graduated from Liberal High School, received her education degree at MSSU and master's degree at Pitt State. ...

George Miler, 79, Nevada, Mo., died on Thursday, July 7, 2016, at his home in Nevada. George was born Dec. 26, 1936, in Horton, Mo., to Homer and Viola Faye (Vincent) Miler. A Celebration of Life service will be held by the family at 6 p.m., Monday, July 11, at 903 Grand, in Lamar...

The Nevada Griffons erased a six-run deficit before having its road contest with the St. Joseph Mustangs suspended due to darkness. It was announced late Tuesday that electrical issues at Phil Welch Stadium in St Joe's were likely going to force the Mustangs Wednesday night game with Nevada, scheduled for 7 p.m., to be moved up to an earlier start time...