Stories from Friday, March 16, 2018

Ninth-year Nevada High head tennis coach Clayton Wheeler has high expectations for his squad entering the season, as the Tigers return nine members from last year’s team. Key returners include — senior Jace Lanham and juniors Gabe Barnes, Tanner Gotschall, Colsen Fisher, and Caleb Theis. Those five comprised Nevada’s No. 2 through 6 late-season singles lineup last year...

Some 40 business and community leaders gathered Wednesday morning in the meeting room of Healthy Nevada for a 2.5-hour meeting about economic development. Kicked off by Cindy Thompson, northern district commissioner in Vernon County, she welcomed attendees and distributed a two-sided sheet which reviewed what was termed a “Vernon County economic blueprint.”...

Opal Irene Fleming, age 91, of Joplin, Mo., (previously a longtime resident of Nevada), passed away on Tuesday, March 13, while a patient at Mercy Hospital in Springfield. She had been in good health until recently. She died peacefully of natural causes...

Herbert “Alan” Hoover, 80, Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, March 14, at Barone Alzheimer’s Care Center in Nevada. Alan was born April 14, 1937, in El Paso, Texas, to George Edwin and Dorothy Elizabeth (Kingsbury) Hoover. On Aug. 27, 1960, he was united in marriage to JoAnn “Jody” Medsker in Carthage, and she survives...

The Cottey Comets stretched their win streak to 11 games with Wednesday's double-header sweep of visiting Dodge City (Kan.) Community College. The Comets returned to the diamond after a nearly two week layoff, and showed little signs of rust in the opener, throttling Dodge City 18-2, in a five inning run-ruled contest. Cottey then prevailed in the nightcap, 15-9...