Stories from Friday, April 20, 2018

On Tuesday evening, the Northeast Vernon County R-1 school board held a succession of four meetings whose open sessions lasted a total of well over two hours before taking up personnel matters in closed session. The first was a special meeting on strategic planning which focused on the building improvement and comprehensive school improvement plans districts are required to prepare and submit to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education...

Leonard Peter Zoglmann, 66, Nevada, passed from this life on Tuesday, April 17, at his daughter’s home in Nevada following a brief illness. Len was born July 14, 1951, in Wellington, Kan., to Irwin F. “Butch” and Wanda L. (Wright) Zoglmann. On July 6, 1974, he married Kathy Rae Peterson in Nevada and she preceded him in death on Nov. 25, 2009...

Euell Lee Beard, 92, Walker, died Thursday, April 19. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, at First Baptist Church in Nevada. Interment will follow in Newton Burial Park in Nevada. Memorials are suggested to First Baptist Church in care of Ferry Funeral Home...

Oma Lee (Biggs) Beshore, 88, Nevada, passed away on Thursday, April 19, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada following a brief illness. Oma, one of 12 children, was born April 3, 1930, in El Dorado Springs to Jacob Samuel and Eula Margaret (Julian) Shaw...

I am, as the title of this story states, a creature of habit. I practice many routines, as a result of many years of predisposition toward certain near obsessive behaviors. This idea came to me while I was completing the annual spring vinegar cleaning of my coffee pot...

For a second consecutive meet, the Nevada Middle School seventh and eighth-grade track-and-field teams have swept to first-place finishes. Fresh off team golds achieved at last week’s NMS Invitational, the Lady Tigers carried their momentum into Tuesday’s Lamar Middle School meet — once again collecting golds. Meanwhile, the NMS seventh-grade boys slotted into a runner-up finish...

Nevada High senior Branden Harder was amped for his first career varsity start on the mound, on a crisp Thursday evening at Lyons Stadium. Harder, who has logged many innings of relief-work during his prep career, struck out 12 over seven innings, propelling Nevada to a 6-4 non-conference victory over rival El Dorado Springs...

Commitment and dedication. This was Nevada High School head football coach Wes Beachler’s overriding message as he addressed his club on Wednesday afternoon about off-season plans, including the school’s upcoming move to the Big 8 conference. During his 15-minute talk Beachler told the assembled players that their commitment to off-season programs such as weight-lifting has to improve, especially during the summer months...

Braeden Hinton is taking his talents to Miami, Oklahoma. The three-sport Nevada High standout signed a letter-of-intent to play baseball for the junior college Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College Golden Norsemen, Wednesday afternoon inside the jam-packed NHS Media Center...

Sheldon High School’s baseball and softball teams were upended by Greenfield on Tuesday, in a pair of five inning non-conference road contests. Greenfield 11, Sheldon 1 Greenfield, the No. 6 ranked boys team in Class 1, erupted for eight first-inning runs, and then tacked on a run in the third, and two in the fourth, to go on top 11-0. Sheldon’s lone run of the contest came in the top of the fifth, via Jason Leavell’s RBI-single, plating Bryce Lamb...

Bronaugh’s baseball Wildcats were toppled by Golden City 20-6, in a non-conference road contest on Monday. Eli Satterfield helped power Bronaugh to a 3-0 first inning lead. The Wildcats then tacked on a run in the top of the third, en route to a 4-0 advantage...