Stories from Saturday, October 16, 2021

Karter Evans earned four medals and the Nevada High School boys swim team finished fourth out of eight schools Thursday at the Carthage Invitational. Evans, a junior, placed second in the 50-yard freestyle (25.77 seconds) and third in the 100-yard free (57.28) — and was part of the two relay teams along with Chosen Reichard, Colby Bourassa, and Jeremiah Hoss finished which took third (2:13 in the 200-yard medley, 1:55 in the 200-yard free)...

Friday night’s gridiron battle at Logan Field between Nevada High School and McDonald County seemed like one of those football games that came down to a couple of key plays. According to NHS head coach Wes Beachler, it was even closer than that. The difference in this one might have been one or two blocks...

So much for the nerves. The top-seeded Nevada High School softball team, two days after surviving some early jitters in its Class 4 District 7 semifinal win over host Harrisonville, obliterated no. 2 seed Warrensburg in the championship game Friday afternoon, 11-1...

Nevada City Manager Mark Mitchell gave updates on the City of Nevada's various projects to the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce during their luncheon Wednesday afternoon. Overpass detour "If you call MoDOT today and you complain about the detour, you're going to get a response from them that it's the City's problem," explained Mitchell. ...