Stories from Wednesday, September 4, 2019

It was a grand start to a new era of Nevada Lady Tiger softball on Tuesday, as first-year NHS head coach Danny Penn and company dispatched visiting Cassville, 13-3. Nevada (1-0, 1-0 Big 8) struck first, plating three runs in the first, and tacked on two in the second. Nevada then led 6-0 after scratching across a run in the third...

Upon graduating from Nevada High School in 2014 Cole Sanderson was off to Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College on a baseball scholarship, then to the University of Central Oklahoma. Now he’s back at his alma matter as a member of the NHS football coaching staff...

Nevada City Council met in regular session Tuesday evening, during which a resolution granting approval for the City of Nevada to install Purple Heart City markers at the west and east city limits. Council members Carol Gallagher, Lyndon Eberhard and Mayor George Knox were in attendance. Also present were City Treasurer Kristie Modlin, City Attorney Bill McCaffree, City Manager JD Kehrman and City Clerk Johnna Williams...

John Olen Dedrick, 81, Nevada, Mo., passed away at Barone Alzheimer’s Care Center in Nevada. John was taken to his heavenly home on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. He was born on April 7, 1938, in Princeton, Ind. John married his sweetheart on December 22, 1968 and they spent nearly 41 wonderful years together. John and Linda were blessed with two sons, Johnny Dedrick and Michael Dedrick...

Luella Belle Driskel, 84, formerly of Sheldon, Mo., died on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, at Truman Healthcare and Rehab in Lamar, Mo. Luella was born Sept. 25, 2019, in rural Sheldon, Mo., to George H. and Sylvia I. (Hoover) Ford. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 6, at Ferry Funeral Home, in Nevada, with the Rev. Kent Garfield officiating. Interment will follow in Sheldon Cemetery, Sheldon, Mo. Friends may call now and until the hour of service at the funeral home...