Stories from Friday, May 3, 2019

Three Nevada High School golfers have extended their seasons, advancing out of Monday’s Class 3 District 6 Tournament in Cassville. With the first-place scorecard of Logan-Rogersville excluded, Nevada seniors Bronson Smith and Carter Swearingen, and freshman Owen Swearginen, carded the required top 15 finish needed to advance on to next week’s state-qualifying sectional tournament...

A seventh-inning collapse spelled doom for the Nevada Tigers on Senior Night Thursday evening at Lyons Stadium — dropping a 6-2 decision to Big 8 Conference foe McDonald County Mustangs. McDonald County went on top 1-0 in the fourth, with the Mustangs plating a run on a Noah Cheaney wild pitch...

Nevada High School head varsity baseball coach Danny Penn has been tabbed to replace Tammy Holcomb as the NHS Lady Tiger head softball coach. Holcomb spent 10 seasons guiding the Lady Tigers, with her coaching tenure highlighted by a state championship run in 2010...

The City of Nevada is currently experiencing delays for previously-planned water system improvements. Earlier this year, the city’s bond credit rating was downgraded by Moody’s and a “negative outlook” was assigned. Moody’s, along with Standard & Poor, and Fitch Group, are considered the “Big Three” credit rating companies on which potential investors of debt securities rely...

LaDeane Annette Beisly, 79, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at Moore-Few Care Center following a brief illness. LaDeane was born May 28, 1939, in Nevada, to Jacob Edward and Mildred Juanita (Bobbett) Bobbett. On June 24, 1961, she married Norman D. Beisly in Nevada and he preceded her in death on March 9, 2012...

John Darwin Hastings, 89, resident of Nevada, Mo., formerly of Bronaugh, Mo., passed away at his home Tuesday, April 30, 2019. He was born on March 21, 1930, in Lindsay, Calif., the son of John Raymond and Dora Beatrice Fry Hastings. He graduated from Bronaugh high school with the class of 1948. ...