Stories from Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Steven Lewis Moyer, 62, Nevada, passed away suddenly on Friday, Aug. 18, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. Steven was born Sept. 10, 1954, in Kansas City, Kan., to Charles William and Verna Hester (Petty) Moyer. He married Sharon K. Sass on Oct. 25, 1983, in Nevada and she survives of the home...

William Kent “Bill” Eador, 65, Nevada, passed from this earth on Sunday, Aug. 20, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. Bill was born Feb. 28, 1952, in Nevada to Willis Earl and Mary Minerva (Griffith) Eador. Bill grew up in Nevada and graduated from Nevada High School. ...

The Nevada Tigers junior varsity and freshman football teams were toppled by the Seneca Indians on Monday night at Logan Field. Prior to the game NHS athletic director, John McNeley, announced that Nevada will compete in only two levels of football this season — varsity and C-team. The C-team will be comprised of JV and freshmen. McNeley said the decision was made by the NHS coaching staff, as early-season injuries have hampered the Tigers overall depth...

John McNeley is pleased with the overall direction of Nevada R-5 athletics. “We feel good about our coaching staff,” said McNeley. “It’s a veteran group that has been around the block a time or two. Our coaches have a feel for what true success is.”...

Sooner or later, nearly all of the prisoners in the Vernon County Jail will be released into society. To be successful on the outside, they will need a number of so-called soft skills or work-readiness training which include such things as how to interview, showing up for work, being on time and getting along with difficult people, whether they are supervisors, co-workers or customers...

Sometimes it seems as though we humans have nothing but hatred for one another. On Saturday, Aug. 12, an evil act took the life of an innocent young woman in Charlottesville, Va. And in the days following, the national media was full of coverage of that act and the hateful ideology which spawned it...