Stories from Friday, March 19, 2021

Cottey College senior golfer Rachel Hancock followed up her first-place performance in last year's Missouri Valley College Spring Invitational with a fifth-place effort in this year's event, shooting a 10-over-par 82 on day one Monday and an 83 on day two Tuesday for an overall score of 165...

Toward the end of Kevin McKinley’s stint as the athletic director at Nevada High School, one of the buzzwords in education was “relationships.” In what seemed like every school district at the time, Nevada’s included, administrators, teachers and coaches were instructed to focus on building relationships with students that would last even beyond graduation, in order to make them more excited about coming to school and to best prepare them for the real world...

Rebecca Belle Gilmore, 86, formerly of Milo, Mo., passed away on Thursday, March 18, 2021, at Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada. Rebecca, the oldest of three children, was born Feb. 22, 1935, in Metz, Mo., to John C. and Beryl A. (Brown) Alexander. She married Delmar Ray Gilmore on Dec. 17, 1955, in Nevada, and he preceded her in death on Aug. 16, 2016...