Stories from Saturday, February 24, 2018

Meeting yesterday morning at 7 a.m., five members of the Northeast Vernon County R-1 school board were on hand to discuss and approve contracts with the principals, receive an update on the project to provide air conditioning in the gym, with most of the open session focused on ways to improve buildings and the school’s overall mission...

The Bronaugh Lady Wildcats stunned the Northeast Vernon County Lady Knights in the opening round of the Class 1 District 6 basketball tournament Thursday night in Hume, holding on a for a 40-38 overtime victory. The No. 4 seed Lady Knights entered red-hot with an 11-2 record, dating to their 20-point win over Bronaugh on Dec. 12, while, the No. 5 seed Lady Wildcats entered 9-16 overall, and on a three-game losing skid...

The Sheldon Lady Panthers season came to a close in the opening round of the Class 1 District 6 basketball tournament on Thursday in Hume, with a 53-28 loss to the top-seeded Drexel Lady Bobcats. Sheldon, the tournament’s No. 8 seed, concludes the season 1-21 overall. ...

The Sheldon Panthers are one victory away from the Class 1 State basketball tournament. The second-seeded Panthers toppled No. 3 Montrose, 54-41 in the semifinals of the Class 1 District 6 Tournament Friday night in Hume. The contest was a rematch of last year’s district championship game, in which Montrose came out on top, 52-43...

Just one victory shy of a perfect 11-0 conference record, the Nevada Tigers were tripped up by the Center H.S. Yellowjackets Friday night in Kansas City — falling in overtime, 59-52. In addition to it being their regular-season finale, it was also Nevada’s final time on the hardwood as a member of the West Central Conference — with the Tigers set to join the Big 8 Conference next season...

Online scams and phone scams are becoming more and more problematic as time goes on, and with the increase in the use of smartphones and computers it will most likely continue to be a problem. Scams are nothing new, but like many crimes, they change their tactics and the way they go about tricking people into giving them their information, money or stealing the information through a variety of ways. ...

Hi neighbors. I was watching a documentary on television this week that spoke of various cultures around the world who have learned to cope with extreme weather. There were people living in the deserts, on the high plains, in jungles and on the tops of mountains...

There are few pleasures in the sport of fishing that can match that of taking a trout, bass or bluegill or other fish on a fly of your own creation. On cold winter evenings, like the ones we have been experiencing this year, with a wind rattling the windows, you can sit at a bench reliving past fishing experiences and put together the ingredients for future ones...