Stories from Friday, March 9, 2018

There was once a television show titled, “Mr. Wizard.” The star and creator of the show was Donald Jeffery Herbert (Wikipedia). To kids from my baby boomer generation, his show which ran on Saturday mornings from 1951-1965, was must-see television. I was reminded of Mr. ...

When I was killing time in the doctor‘s office I found a yearbook about 1930 or 40. Some of the pictures are very interesting. The girls are all wearing bobby socks and saddle shoes and most of them were wearing either jackets or light coats in the pictures. When they were changing classes the girls were also wearing head scarfs. They all were wearing dresses along with their wraps...

Eugene (Gene) Joseph Golden III, 68, of rural Nevada died on March 7, at Freeman West Hospital, Joplin. He was born May 28, 1949, to Eugene J. Golden, Jr. and Glorianne (McGinn) Golden in Chicago, Ill. He married Brenda L. Brown on June 10, 1972, in Carbondale, Ill...

It was the year which included the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the first election of President Nixon and Apollo 8 orbiting the moon. Also that year, at what was then Nevada City Hospital, on Monday, April 1, 1968, a newly minted Licensed Practical Nurse by the name of Joanna L. Crawford began her first nursing shift...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Cottey Comets basketball season came to an end March 2 in the opening round of the NJCAA Division II women’s basketball tournament as the No. 4 seed Comets were downed by the top-seeded St. Louis Community College Lady Archers, 92-63...

All is not lost for the Nevada Lady Tiger basketball team, whose season came to an end Tuesday night after absorbing a wrenching 48-45 loss to the Osage Indians in the Class 4 Sectionals in Sedalia. The Lady Tigers are a young team, with the 2017-18 starting lineup comprised of one junior, three sophomores, and a freshman. Additionally, Nevada’s primary rotation is rounded out by three sophomores and a freshman...

After a nearly 10-month off-season lay-off, the Nevada Tigers finally return to the diamond for today’s Seneca baseball jamoboree. Nevada is slated for a pair of four inning scrimmages — first matching up with Neosho at 4:30 p.m., followed by a 6 p.m. clash with host Seneca...

Alex Payne, the former Nevada High two-sport standout, powered Iowa Wesleyan University to a doubleheader sweep of Robert Morris-Springfield March 4 at Lenz Field in Jacksonville, Illinois. Iowa Wesleyan took the opener 12-6, as Payne, who graduated from Nevada in 2014, went 3-for-3 with five RBI, a sixth inning grand slam, a triple, and two runs scored. ...