Stories from Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Community leaders gathered in the Healthy Nevada Innovation Center Tuesday morning in anticipation of an announcement. Healthy Nevada accepted a $764,528 three-year grant from the Patterson Family Foundation to create collective impact in the areas of rural mental health, obesity, and food insecurity through strategic programming. ...

The Northeast Vernon County High School girls basketball team came closest to pulling off an upset in the first round of the Class 1 District 7 tournament Monday night at Rich Hill. Unfortunately for the Lady Knights, round two will be all chalk after the Lady Tigers were able to fend NEVC off in the second half and advance to play top-seeded McAuley Catholic with a 43-33 win...

Number four is now No. 4. Nevada High School senior guard Logan Applegate, who sports the number four on his basketball jersey, climbed up one spot on the school's all-time scoring list after his 36-point performance Monday night against McDonald County...

After two weeks without so much as a scrimmage, the Nevada High School girls basketball team played its third game in four days Tuesday at Bolivar. And even though the Lady Tigers lost 61-54 — dropping two of those three games to fall to 11-11 on the season — after the game, head coach Blake Howarth was as optimistic as ever...