Stories from Friday, October 8, 2021

Nevada High School head girls basketball coach Blake Howarth will be hosting an upcoming fall youth basketball camp for interested players in grades 2-6. At a cost of $25 per player, the camp will run from 1-3 p.m. each of the following Saturdays inside Wynn Gymnasium: Oct. 16, Oct. 23, Oct. 30, and Nov. 6...

The Northeast Vernon County High School volleyball team was without one of its starting setters in a home match against Ballard on Tuesday, and it showed after the Lady Knights dropped the first two sets (17-25, 23-25). But everything clicked for NEVC in the third set, and the Lady Knights were able to storm back (25-14, 25-18, 15-4) to win the match...

Alternate uniforms are usually reserved for college and professional sports teams, but on Wednesday afternoon at Bushwhacker Field the Nevada High School softball team got its chance to show off some new threads. Instead of their usual crimson and gray, the Lady Tigers wore all-white tops and pants with pink socks and pink writing on their shirts honoring the game’s fund-raising special occasion: Strike Out Cancer Night...

Nevada High School freshman Emree Cameron found her putting stroke at just the right time, and NHS senior Libby Barrett picked the perfect day to shoot her first birdie, as the Lady Tigers made the most of their final meet of the regular season Thursday afternoon at Frank E. Peters Golf Course...

The Nevada City Council passed an ordinance (Bill No. 2021-066) on seconding reading Tuesday evening providing for the holding of a Primary and General Election within the City of Nevada, Mo., and fixing the polling place, adopting judges of said election, and providing for other matters incidental to said election. This comes on the heels of the council needing to fill a seat recently vacated by council member Richard Brockman...

Mary Marie (Cowan) Dahmer, 94, of Nevada, passed away Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, after a lengthy illness. She was born on Sept. 30, 1927, in Crawford County, Kan., near Walnut, Kan., to Charles Oscar Cowan and Grace Olive (Boileau) Cowan. On Sept. 5, 1948, she was married to Glenn “Plute” Dean Dahmer in Mapleton, Kan., and he preceded her in death on Sept. 28, 2003...

Jimmie Carl Leer, 57, Bronaugh, Mo., passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. Jimmie was born Aug. 30, 1964, in Nevada, to Junior and Mary Ann (Burchell) Leer. He was united in marriage to Glenda Sue Weber on Dec. 24, 1985, in Rich Hill, Mo., and she survives of the home...

Jacqueline Faye Maxine Carter Love, 84, left this earthly world on Sept. 28, 2021, at KU Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born on July 11, 1937, in Mishawaka, Indiana to William L. Carter and Mary E. (Quier) Carter. Jacquie was the middle child of 13 brothers and sisters. ...

Wayne Jackson Houston, 93, resident of Richards, Mo., died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott, Kan. Services will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the U.S. National Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m., Monday, at the Cheney Witt Chapel...